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To: James Connolly who wrote (5923)	7/21/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Charles Fullerton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

info@intel distributed the following dated July 20,1999: NEW PLATFORM SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ROYALTY-FREE Download three new applied computing platform software products from Intel. The Intel(R) 69000/6555X Display Driver for Windows* CE 2.11 supports Intel's 69000, 65555 and 65550 video graphics chips. The Intel Image Processing Library for VxWorks* 5.3.1 offers functions used by desktop publishing, machine vision, digital video, image compression and image printing applications. The Intel Signal Processing Library for VxWorks* 5.3.1 provides digital signal processing functions for Intel Architecture (IA) processors. Be sure to register for e-mail updates on future software releases. developer.intel.com;

To: James Connolly who wrote (5923)	7/22/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

James, In a latest move by Microsoft to beef up its embedded offering, it has acquired STNC, a wireless embedded browser software company. This is significant, because Symbian uses STNC's browser. STNC's acceptance of the offer shows that STNC thinks that it has better to partner with Microsoft than with Symbian. STNC's 350KB ROM foot-print is one of the smallest HTML3.2 compatible browser I have heard. This will be the forth browser for CE besides the WebTV browser, CE's baby IE, and the browser that Spyglass is working on. This shows Microsoft's understanding of the embedded markets. The Spyglass browser will be more high performance, and targeting the set-top box market. The STNC browser will be more resource efficient, and targeting the hand held market. Microsoft is gaining ground fast. Regards, Khan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Microsoft acquires provider of Epoc browser technology By Peter Clarke EE Times (07/21/99, 6:49 p.m. EDT) BURY ST. EDMUNDS, England — Microsoft Corp. has acquired STNC Ltd., developer of the Internet browser portion of Epoc, the 32-bit real-time operating system of Symbian plc (London), an OS rival to Microsoft. But Microsoft is not planning to outflank Symbian by cutting off its access to the STNC technology it currently licenses and has made a standard part of Epoc, according to Ran Mokady, former chief executive officer of STNC, based here, and now a director of Microsoft's productivity appliances division. Microsoft will honor all of STNC's existing licensing agreements and will encourage the group to continue its software development and licensing efforts. "We will continue to license our technology to third parties," Mokady said. "We will certainly not exclude Symbian. In general the business remains more or less the same." The price Microsoft paid for closely held STNC was not revealed. Microsoft said STNC would remain in the United Kingdom and become a fully integrated part of its productivity appliances division, within which it would work to integrate its compact communications and browsing software with Windows CE and with Microsoft's microbrowser technology. Mokady founded STNC in 1993, and the company had about 40 employees at the time of its acquisition. STNC has specialized in developing compact, modular software utilities and protocols for handheld and wirelessly connected systems. It has licensed its technology to RTOS vendor Microware Systems Corp. (Des Moines, Iowa) and to Symbian, a joint venture of Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion. STNC announced in January that Symbian had licensed its browser technology, then said in February that it had customized a version of its HitchHiker smartphone Internet browser for Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. "Microsoft is excited about the acquisition because of STNC's core competency in digital cellular phone software and its established position in the European market," said Harel Kodesh, vice president of Microsoft's productivity appliances division. "This further demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to and focus on evolving a wireless telephone platform that will enable our customers to access information anywhere, any time from their cellular phone." Mokady said he accepted Microsoft's acquisition offer because he felt the company shared STNC's view of the future regarding wireless Internet appliances. In addition, Mokady said he felt that the resources available within a large company such as Microsoft would allow his group to deliver its technology more quickly than by continuing to work independently. "We will be working to integrate our software within the Microsoft Windows CE wireless telecom platform and within the Microsoft microbrowser technology," Mokady said. STNC made a name for itself with its HitchHiker software suite, which provides a graphical HTML 3.2 browser and e-mail client for a mobile handset in less than 350 kbytes of ROM. Elements of HitchHiker were also available individually from STNC.