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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Zi Corporation Announces Five Licensing Agreements in Asia-Pacific
CALGARY, AB, December 13, 2005 – Zi Corporation (Nasdaq: ZICA) (TSX: ZIC), a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that it has expanded its presence in the Asia-Pacific wireless market. Zi has signed significant licensing agreements for its advanced eZiText® predictive text input technology with five wireless companies. Located in the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia and Korea, the five original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will integrate eZiText into their own offerings to reduce key presses and enhance the user experience when text messaging.
Under the terms of the agreements, Desay A&V Science and Technology Co. Ltd., Eastern Communications Co. Ltd., Keben Telecom Co. Ltd., M dot Mobile Sdn Bhd and Uniscope Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. have all licensed eZiText. Desay, Eastern Communications and Uniscope have also licensed Zi’s Chinese and English language databases for use with eZiText. Keben Telecom and M Dot Mobile have licensed the predictive text input technology for a variety of languages. The five new OEMs are expected to introduce devices in the market with eZiText embedded throughout 2006.
Industry analyst firm Gartner is predicting that mobile data service revenue in Asia-Pacific will increase from $15.7 billion in 2005 to $35 billion in 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 22.3 percent. “The Asia-Pacific region has consistently been one of the leading markets for wireless adoption,” said Milos Djokovic, chief technical officer and chief operating officer, Zi Corporation. “With the forecasted growth in mobile data revenues, Zi is empowering these five OEMs with the ability to drive increased usage of text messaging applications through the simplification of the user interface.”
By escalating its presence in the Asia-Pacific wireless market, Zi is enabling more original equipment and original design manufacturers to enhance the power of their offerings with intuitive user interface technologies. These OEMs can improve the performance and marketability of their offerings, helping gain increased market share and drive wireless subscriber adoption of their services.
About eZiText
Zi’s user-friendly text input system, eZiText, enables consumer electronic manufacturers and telecom carriers to provide end users with richer, more personalized text input experiences. eZiText provides faster and more efficient text entry through truly predictive one-touch entry and word completion, coupled with the ability to learn from a person’s usage patterns and new vocabulary. eZiText is available in and supports 48 unique language databases.
About Zi Corporation
Zi Corporation (www.zicorp.com) is a technology company that delivers intelligent interface solutions to enhance the user experience of wireless and consumer technologies. The company provides device manufacturers and network operators with a full range of intuitive and easy-to-use input solutions, including: eZiText for one-touch predictive text entry; eZiTap™ for intelligent multi-tap entry, Decuma® for natural handwriting recognition and the new Qix™ service discovery engine to enhance the user experience and drive service usage and adoption. Zi’s product portfolio dramatically improves the usability of mobile phones, PDAs, gaming devices and set-top boxes and the applications on them including SMS, MMS, e-mail and Internet browsing. Zi supports its strategic partners and customers from offices in Asia, Europe and North America. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the Nasdaq National Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).
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