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To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (3596)	7/27/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: esterina	Respond to of 8218

Similar deal with ACNTF and Lernout & Hauspie News Alert from Dow Jones Online News via Quote.com Topic: (NYSE:IBM) Intl Business Machines Corp, Quote.com News Item #7180695 Headline: IBM, Software Firm Applied Language Join To Offer Speech Products ====================================================================== By Raju Narisetti, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal NEW YORK -- International Business Machines Corp. is planning a partnership with Applied Language Technologies Inc., a closely held speech-software company in Boston, as it continues to seek business uses for voice-recognition technology. Under the agreement, expected to be announced today, the companies will work together to offer software tools and vocabulary "engines," based on Applied Language's SpeechWorks and IBM's ViaVoice technologies, to companies that are interested in developing speech-driven applications. Terms of the agreement, one of several that IBM's speech unit has signed this past year, weren't being disclosed. Both companies hope to find customers interested in using voice recognition for such things as buying movie tickets, reserving airline tickets or conducting bank transactions without the help of touch-tone phone menus or an operator. Commonwealth Associates, a New York investment banking firm, estimates the market for such products -- both speech engines and applications -- was about $408 million in 1997, with speech-application products alone expected to reach $2.4 billion in year 2000. Applied Language specializes in technologies that allow people to talk to computers via the telephone, and faces competition from a slew of rivals including Registry Magic Inc. and Nuance Communications Inc. Applied Language has had some initial success with major clients, including on-line trading firm E*Trade Group Inc. and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines. Founded in 1994, Applied Language is backed by venture capitalists and Intel Corp. IBM, Armonk, N.Y., has been aggressively trying to find partners for its ViaVoice technology, which faces tough competition from the other two major speech-technology companies, closely held Dragon Systems Inc. and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, which is backed by Microsoft Corp. Copyright (c) 1998 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (3596)	7/27/1998 2:27:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

Jules please place this PowerPC update news at INTC's thread You posted: >>Here is an excerpt from an article appearing on the Intel thread, I thought you might be interested in seeing.<< Appreciate the history that IBM disregarded its xxx86 opportunities but maybe INTC should be reminded about AIM's (APPL-IBM-MOT) PowerPC . Warn your fellow INTC holders because Motorola is using its partner's IBM's latest PowerPC technology in dedicated devices: " Motorola introduced the industry's fastest PowerPC microprocessors, "G3" chips that run at 366 MHz while using less power, but it's not clear how soon they'll find their way into desktop and notebook systems. " news.com Plus September is only 1 month away: " Meanwhile, IBM is expected to unveil its first copper-process chips by September, as previously reported. " IBM plans to place 1,000 MZ PowerPC 64-bit chips by year end in its own servers . Won't affect the FTC's monopoly suit against INTC . Regards, Jim K.