Zi CORPORATION
NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release
(Calgary, AB Canada)
January 12, 1999
Zi Corporation
Announces Appointment of a New Director
Zi Corporation (TSE:
ZIC; NASDAQ: ZICAF) ("Zi") is pleased to make the following
appointment to its Board of Directors.
Arthur Lipper III,
an international financier, author, lecturer and Chairman of
British Far East Holdings Ltd., has been appointed as a member
of the Board of Directors of Zi Corporation. Mr. Lipper, who
has been a Governor of the Canadian Club of New York, is an
experienced investment banker having a long history of activity
in Asia. Arthur Lipper Corporation was the first New York Stock
Exchange member firm to open a research and transaction facilitation
office in Tokyo. Mr. Lipper was also one of the charter members
of the original Bangkok Stock Exchange. In the early 1970’s,
recognizing the prospects for the area, he opened an office
in Singapore. He was the Chairman, publisher and Editor-In-Chief
of Venture Magazine and also served as Chairman of New York
& Foreign Securities Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange
member.
Mr. Lipper has stated
"I am most pleased to be given the opportunity to serve on the
Zi Corporation Board of Directors as I believe the company has
great potential. I am excited about the benefits, not just from
a business perspective but also in serving society, as a result
of facilitating electronic communication in the world’s
most populous country. The rate of economic growth of China
and other countries using character based languages may exceed
that of countries using a Roman alphabet. In many ways, these
countries that use character based languages are the future.
I look forward to playing an active role and assisting in the
development of Zi Corporation to enable the creating of characters
for cellular phones, pagers, computers, interactive TV and the
internet."
Zi Corporation’s
mission and vision is to make modern electronic technology more
accessible to people in a way that is consistent with their
language and culture. By connecting technology to language,
Zi Corporation brings language processing to the mass market
for devices such as mobile phones, set-top boxes, computers
and other information appliances.
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