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To: Boplicity who wrote (1137)	10/22/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: Bruce Cullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1412

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tracy Swedlow's I N T E R A C T I V E TV T O D A Y An Email Publication October 20, 1999 Issue 2.39 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I N D U S T R Y Spyglass Joins the ATVEF* Spyglass has joined the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) to participate in developments there. The ATVEF is, of course, the commercial organization made of approximately 71 adopters and 14 founding companies that either jointly developed or now support the ATVEF specification which allows content producers to more easily create HTML elements (enhancements) and publish them over the analog or digital TV signal. Spyglass has certainly evolved its business over the last 10 years from Internet browser developer to technology provider for television and mobile data companies such General Instrument, Microsoft, Motorola, and Sony. Although they haven't announced ITV enhanced projects on the whole lately, Spyglass has licensed their embedded browser, Device Mosaic, to Nokia and IBM set-top projects and WorldGate includes their browser inside the General Instrument special $99 set-top box, "SurfView", which will get distribution January in Argentina. Korean Consortium Setting Up Business for Internet TV A Korean consortium made of Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Corp., Medidas, Caps, and Chosun Internet TV have joined to develop set-top box NetTV projects. The plan is to produce 150,000 units beginning early 2000. Retail partner, Chosun Internet TV, will sell the set-top boxes locally while Samsung Corp will export abroad. Adding to the boxes' value, medical supplier, Medidas, plans to place medical instrumentation that will connect to the boxes while Caps, a security service firm, will provide networked remote security services.