I wonder what this is all about, exactly, but interesting, nevertheless.
dailynews.yahoo.com
Thursday June 4 12:31 PM EDT
Lucent and Uniview take aim at interactive TV
DALLAS (Reuters) - Consumer electronics company uniView Technologies said today that it and
Lucent Technologies are collaborating to bring Internet telecommunications capabilities to interactive
television and Internet device markets.
The platform for this will be done through Lucent's Inferno Network Software, uniView said in a
statement.
In its statement, uniView said the new system, expected to be available to uniView and Lucent
customers around third quarter 1998, will enable simple, rapid Internet access, e-mail, and other
telecommunications capabilities.
"With telephones in more than 94 percent of U.S. households and the Internet becoming a part of
everyday life, it is imperative that telephony and Internet devices be fast, efficient and user-friendly,"
Patrick Custer, president and CEO of uniView Technologies Corp, said in a statement.
"Therefore, developing an advanced Web telephone for multiple applications was the perfect first
step for our alliance with Lucent," he said.
Under the agreement, uniView will drive the development, delivery and licensing of the Web
telephone and related Internet service support, the company said.
Lucent will provide its Web telephone reference design and operating system for incorporation into
the new platform and also will provide an additional targeted customer base for marketing and
licensing efforts, uniView said.
(Reuters/Wired)
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