uniView Technologies Unveils Strategy to Integrate
Motorola's New "Blackbird" Platform Into Customized
End-to-End Solutions
Business Wire - September 22, 1998 08:17
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1998--
Company Focuses On Developing Leading-Edge Convergence
Technologies for Vertical Business Markets
uniView Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:UVEW) is enhancing the power of its customized
end-to-end solutions for vertical markets by incorporating the architecture of Motorola, Inc.'s newly
introduced platform, code-named "Blackbird."
uniView will combine its proven set-top box technologies, software development capabilities and
network expertise with Blackbird's open, multimedia architecture to create leading-edge systems for
industries including banking, marketing, telecommunications, telemedicine and hospitality.
"We are developing complete solutions by drawing from clients' market expertise, then using their
business models to create sophisticated applications using customized networks and convergence
devices," said Thomas O'Mara, vice president sales and marketing, Advanced Systems Group,
uniView Technologies. "With Blackbird's diverse platform, including the Spyglass browser and the
Microware operating system, we can adapt and expand our own technologies to meet the broad
needs of these vertical markets." Blackbird is the first open platform to support interactive 3D
graphics, Java, MPEG digital video, high-fidelity audio, Internet access, e-commerce and broadband
networking in a single integrated "soft" unit. According to Jim Reinhart, general manager of
Motorola's Media Processing and Platforms Division, "Our cooperative effort with uniView, which
already has developed proven user-friendly convergence technologies, will deliver seamless and
powerful connectivity and interactivity to the business community."
Dallas-based uniView Technologies develops and implements innovative hardware, software and
network technologies for a full end-to-end solution in a variety of enterprise environments. In
addition to innovating the settop box industry with its uniView(TM) product, the company provides
advanced network evaluation, design, integration and consultation. uniView's Advanced Systems
Group integrates state-of-the-art technology through various network devices while the uniView
Technologies' Products Group focuses on research, product development and customer service.
More information on the company is available on the company's newly redesigned Web site at
www.uniview.net.
As the word's number one producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products
Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA(TM) solutions which enable its customers in the consumer,
networking and computing, transportation, and wireless communications markets, to create new
business opportunities. Motorola's semiconductor sales were US$8.0 billion in 1997.
Motorola is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services. It creates software-driven
products that provide integrated customer solutions and Internet access via wireless and satellite
communications, as well as computing, networking, and automotive electronics. Motorola also
liberates the power of technology by providing essential digital building blocks in the form of
embedded semiconductors, controls and systems. Sales in 1997 were $29.8 billion.
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about those factors which could cause actual results to differ from management's expectations.
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