| 30th December 2004 - Zi Corporation , a leading provider
of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that
Flextronics has signed a global license agreement to use
its eZiTap™ and eZiText® solutions. Flextronics
is the leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS)
provider focused on delivering innovative design and manufacturing
services to technology companies.
The license agreement for eZiTap and eZiText technologies
includes a number of innovative and first-to-market
features that Zi has developed. These features include
personalization and learning dictionaries, word completion
and next word prediction; as well as, dual language
messaging, which allow simultaneous use of two alphabetic
languages without any mode changes by the user.
“We are pleased to be a key supplier of Flextronics
for its global development of handsets,” said Glen
Morgan, senior vice president of global sales and marketing
for Zi Corporation. “Our goal is that millions
more wireless users will experience the real-world benefits
of Zi’s innovative technologies and the unmatched
usability it brings to their handsets.”
“Zi Corporation and its easy-to-use, predictive
text products have an excellent reputation throughout
the electronics and intelligent interface industries,”
said Tom Deitrich, vice president of ODM products for
Flextronics.
eZiText and eZiTap provide users with the power of
predictive texting through one-touch or multi-tap input,
respectively. Incorporating text input technology into
mobile devices enables manufacturers and telecom carriers
to provide consumers with richer, more personalized
text input experiences. In combination with its language
databases, Zi’s predictive input technology can
be made available in almost any written language. To
date, Zi offers 41 written languages to customers around
the world.
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's intelligent predictive text interfaces,
eZiTap and eZiText, allow users to personalize the device
and simplify text entry providing consumers with easy
interaction for short messaging, e-mail, e-commerce,
Web browsing and similar applications in almost any
written language. 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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