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To: bythepark who wrote (22702)	4/14/2000 8:21:00 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 54805

Thanks to the ISI acquisition, WIND is now in IBM's set-top boxes. alan...interesting does anyone see any competition to gmst from this browser? or am i seeing ghosts? unclewest LAS VEGAS, Apr 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ANT Limited, embedded > communication software provider, announced today that it has ported its > advanced Fresco(R) Browser software to IBM's (NYSE: IBM ) newly announced > "system on a chip" solution, which delivers computing power to television > set-top boxes (STBs). Since IBM's announcement on March 24, 2000, ANT > demonstrated the ease of portability of its browser technology by providing > code to IBM for porting to the new chip. As a result, just several weeks > later, IBM is able to demonstrate the ANT browser running on its latest STB > integrated chip at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas > this week. > > "We believe our new set-top-box chip can help customers build products that > are capable of delivering a host of new services," said John Sixsmith, IBM > marketing manager for set-top chips. "The introduction of these services is > likely to accelerate with the advent of software products like ANT's new > browser. We were pleased to work with ANT on what proved to be a quick and > easy port of their browser to our platform." > > ANT's robust browser technology is designed for embedded communication devices > such as digital set-top boxes, Internet television, mobile phones, PDAs, games > consoles, household appliances and in-vehicle information systems. It has a > fully customizable user interface and requires minimal memory, making it ideal > for the latest generation of consumer and Internet products, which have > limited memory resources.