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To: flickerful who wrote (2831)	7/20/1998 7:49:00 AM
From: Austin S.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10081

I presume that this July 20th press release means that Ericsson believes that L&H's text to speech and compression technology is far superior to that offered by GMGC, correct? The inference being that this does not bode well for GMGC?

To: flickerful who wrote (2831)	7/21/1998 2:58:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Lernout & Hauspie Signs Agreement to Acquire Globalink..... BURLINGTON, MASS. & IEPER, BELGIUM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1998 Business/Technology Editors With These Acquisitions L&H Will Have the Most Comprehensive Language Translation Offerings in the Market Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ:LHSPF, EASDAQ:LHSP-ED) (L&H), a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services, announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Globalink, Inc. (AMER:GNK), best known for its Barcelona machine translation technology. The company also announced today the acquisitions of AILogic Corporation and NeocorTech, both leading providers of machine translation technology for Asian languages. More: biz.yahoo.com