uniView Technologies Set-Top Boxes to Be Featured at
JavaOne Sun Microsystem's 1998 Worldwide Java
Developer Conference
Business Wire - March 10, 1998 07:46
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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1998--
Boxes to be User Interface for Conference Attendees to Promote
Scalability of Java
The advanced convergence designs of uniView Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:UVEW) will
be prominently featured and utilized at Sun's 1998 Worldwide Java Developer
Conference(sm), taking place March 24-27 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The company has customized 50 of its interactive set-top boxes to be used throughout the
week by JavaOne(sm) conference attendees to register, send messages to each other, and
play a special Java(tm)-themed game. Today's announcement underscores uniView
Technologies' recent corporate restructuring from a consumer electronics company to an
advanced technology designer, developer and service provider.
"It is exciting that our technology has been chosen by Sun Microsystems to be the featured
set-top box to network this leading developer conference," said Patrick A. Custer, president
and CEO of uniView Technologies Corp. "The fun, interactive applications -- including a few
to-be-announced surprises -- showcased by our boxes at JavaOne will demonstrate that Java
is now ready for the every day consumer."
Other leading technology companies partnering with uniView Technologies to create the
custom convergence applications for JavaOne attendees include Dallas Semiconductor and
Softbank.
Dallas-based uniView Technologies Corp., formerly Curtis Mathes Holding Corp., develops
and implements innovative hardware technologies and solutions to license for a variety of niche
set-top box applications including home healthcare, education, banking, hotel, home office,
and consumer electronics.
As an electronics engineering design and marketing company, uniView Technologies has
established an advanced standard for connectivity to Internet appliances by adopting leading
technology from Sun Microsystems, Inc., MCI Telecommunications Corp., and Cisco
Systems, Inc. It also has developed proprietary software enabling access to the unique
features of uniView. The company specializes in advanced television solutions and other new
interactive and connectivity technologies, as well. For more information, visit the company's
website at www.uniview.net.
Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, JavaOne, 1998 Worldwide Java Developer
Conference and Java are all trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
in the U.S. and in other countries.
CONTACT: uniView Technologies
Neal Katz, 214/503-8880 (Investor contact)
or
Edelman Worldwide
Allison Ellis, 214/520-3555 (Media contact)
aellis@edelman.com
Reba Reid, 713/623-2666 (Media contact)
rreid@edelman.com
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