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Technology Stocks : Zi-Corp (ZICA), formerly MCUAF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (1537)	9/26/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: leigh aulper	Respond to of 2082

Reread your notes, zi is the majority owner of a chinese venture with the chinese govt. what do you think?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (1537)	9/26/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2082

IS, its hard to figure out what ZICA has to offer. Best Regards, Mad2 tegic.com Tegic Communications, the leader in alphabet-based and Japanese and Chinese character-based text input technologies for handheld devices, was founded in 1995 to develop and market text input technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company has worldwide patents, both issued and pending, on T9 Text Input for alphabet-based languages, Chinese, Korean and Japanese and has licensed the technology to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers worldwide. The courts have not yet examined the issue of Zi's possible infringement of Tegic's patents. T9 Text Input is licensed by wireless phone manufacturers who represent more than 90 percent of the worldwide wireless handset market including such leading wireless phone manufacturers as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Benefon, Bosch, Fujitsu, Maxon, Mitsubishi, NEC, NeoPoint, Optimay, Philips, Qualcomm, Sagem, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Texas Instruments and others.

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (1537)	9/27/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 2082

One has to question that, when the technology is so important to Ericy, why did Nokia, Mot, Bosch, Samsung not go after it. who said the technology was 'so important' to Erickson? Personally I have no idea how important these products are to E. The other companies chose the technology they did for their reasons and I have no view as to their reasons and the soundness of their decision process. the point is, imo, that the corporate connections are besides the point now. As I said in my earlier post the Erickson deal is valuable to Zi because it gave them revenue to keep them alive. But they weren't going to prosper with that deal alone. It is the deals with the Chinese gov't that is the key to Zi's future. Before the gov't deal I would agree that Zi was in trouble. In fact I suspect Erickson was dragging their feet on product release because no one else was adopting the technology. I have no hard evidence for that view just a hunch. The deal with the Chinese gov't changes everything, imo. And has the Chinese ban on "new" internet investment some negative impact on Zi? I don't think so. It is possible as the government's 'partner' it puts them in advantageous position.