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To: lamont smith who wrote ()	12/2/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: whitephosphorus	Read Replies (1) of 4913

AOL GOES WIRELESS DEVELOPMENTS: - America Online (AOL) has announced the acquisition of Tegic Communications, a leading provider of software that allows people to send electronic messages in 14 languages (including all the major western European languages, Chinese and Japanese) via wireless phones and other devices. The Network Research Group (NRG) profiled Tegic during the marketing of our first report Mobile Data: Wireless Meets the Web. We believe that AOL's motives with this acquisition are to gain control of Tegic's T9 technology that makes it possible for consumers to easily and quickly take advantage of email and instant messaging on wireless devices. - Tegic's leading product, T9 Text Input software, allows individuals to quickly and easily send email, short messaging services (SMS) and instant messages. The T9 software determines the desired word based on the user's key presses and statistical frequency of words in a given language. Tegic is collaborating with AOL to create an AOL Instant Messenger software for wireless devices based on the emerging Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standard. Tegic has licensed its T9 software to more than 20 wireless phone makers that serve more than 90% of the world market, and at least ten are already shipping T9-enabled phones. The software runs on other computer platforms such as personal digital assistants (PDAs, Palm Pilots) and MP3 Internet music players. (Source: Reuters) - This development is further evidence that wireless data is going mainstream! With AOL locking in the technology for easy text entry into wireless devices, we believe that AOL will use this leverage to get AOL content and Instant Messenger onto mobile handsets. - Calgary-based Zi Corp. (ZIC) also makes technology that allows users to type in several languages including Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters in a few keystrokes and is used for email, the Internet, pagers, mobile phones and interactive television set-top boxes. Zi Corp. intends to appeal the summary dismissal (issued in mid-September) of its patent suit against Tegic. Zi Corp. has claimed in its suit that Tegic's T9 cellular phone technology violates Zi's O'Dell U.S. patent. Tegic has filed a counterclaim. (Source: Dow Jones) - Zi Corp. closed on Wednesday at $19.65 on the TSE, down $2.60 or 11.7% on volume of 151,388 (2.5x the average daily volume). - The companies in our universe most affected by the move of wireless data to the mainstream market are listed below: Symbol Company Name Rating Risk CIC Certicom Corporation Buy Above Market RIM Research in Motion Buy Above Market SW Sierra Wireless Buy Above Market

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