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uniView Technologies Receives Initial Contract for $20 Million for Linux-Based Uniview Set Top Boxes
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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000--
uniView enters into agreement with Zoned In
for long-term set top box deployment and support
uniView Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:UVEW), through its Products
Group, announced an initial contract of $20 million for a new set top
box (Z Box) based on the Linux uniView model.
This unit will become the basis for Zoned In's www.zonedin.com
business model of secure transactions and community-centered
applications, which is planned for deployment by the end of this year.
"The agreement with Zoned In demonstrates the significance of the
new uniView Linux model in the overall product line up for uniView's
set top box solutions," said Tom O'Mara, president of the uniView
Products Group. "The positioning of this unit into Zoned In's business
strategy is an example of our unique business solutions to specific
customer channels. Combining the Linux operating system open
architecture with smart card technologies will allow a broad and
aggressive deployment of this product."
uniView introduced the Linux-based platform last month as an entry
level set top box. The new unit created an opportunity for uniView's
Products Group to offer a more economical set top box solution to
customers.
"Our company performed extensive research on available STB
technologies as well as the support functions required for our
strategy, said Mark Cano, Zoned In senior vice president of sales and
marketing. "uniView offered the best solution in which we felt
confident to position the future of Zoned In's model. Our business
strategy not only requires a superior performing STB platform, but a
very complex combination of software, hardware and deployment
capability. No other company could demonstrate the total solution
talent of uniView."
Dallas based uniView Technologies Corp. has four business units:
Advanced Systems Group, Network America, uniView Softgen and the
Products Group. This unique architecture of key companies offer
competencies and expertise creating solutions in video on demand, set
top box products, interactive broadband connectivity, computer
telephony integration software, and overall e-business solutions. The
companies market their products and services both domestically and
internationally focusing on multi-level marketing, hospitality,
utilities, banking, telecommunications and fortune 1,000 companies.
More information on uniView is available at www.uniView.com.
Zoned In empowers consumers by providing them with an Internet
presence that enables participation in a vast interactive/proactive
communication network. Zoned In provides every consumer with the
interactive capability to perform a multitude of highly technical
administrative functions that require no technical knowledge. Zoned In
has also created a server based application program centered on the
concept of giving businesses a functional tool to conduct e-commerce
from a local brick and mortar concept to a cyber concept and back.
Zoned In has taken the new and more popular features that the Internet
has to offer, and combined them into a single, easy to navigate and
understand environment.
NOTICE: Some of this information may contain "Forward Looking
Statements" which are company plans, projections and uncertainties.
For a discussion of risk factors associated with some of these plans
and projections, please refer to the company's SEC filings, which
contain additional discussion about those factors, which could cause
actual results to differ from management's expectations.
CONTACT: uniView Technologies Corporation, Dallas
Bob Fudickar, 972/233-0900
bfudickar@uniView.com
or
Zoned In
Mark Cano, 561/999-1575
mc@im.zonedin.com
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