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Zi CORPORATION
NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release (Calgary,
AB Canada)
March 27, 2000
Zi licenses eZiTextTM to mobile phone leader
DBTEL
Calgary, AB (March 27, 2000) - Zi Corporation’s (NASDAQ:
ZICA) (TSE: ZIC) predictive software, eZiTextTM will
be integrated into DBTEL’s new line of GSM digital phones.
The phones will be equipped with Traditional Chinese, Simplified
Chinese and English versions of eZiTextTM and are
destined for the Taiwanese and Chinese markets.
"Zi’s proven software engineering skills and Zi’s
local presence in research and development were key for DBTEL
choosing our solution," says Gary Kovacs, senior vice president,
Marketing and Sales at Zi Corporation.
eZiTextTM is a leading software technology that
connects people to text messaging, email, e-commerce and web-browsing.
It provides intuitive, predictive power to allow a user to type
quickly and intelligently on any communication appliance. eZiTextTM
has the flexibility to accommodate several ideographic and alphabetic
languages which improves a manufacturers’ ability to penetrate
their target markets.
DBTEL has factories in both Taiwan and Mainland China, and
exports around the globe. DBTEL’s main product areas include
home, office and digital mobile phones, answering and fax machines,
and network products.
Zi Corporation is a leading provider of embedded software technology
and educational products. The company’s core product,
eZiTextTM connects people to short messaging, email,
e-commerce, web browsing, and similar applications in almost
any written language. Zi’s strategic partners use the
technology to enable information and Internet appliances that
meet the needs of consumers, business, government and education
systems. Zi supports its strategic partners from offices in
Calgary, Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Shenzhen and Stockholm.
A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the NASDAQ
Stock Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).
Certain statements in this press release constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The information in
this press release is based on Zi Corporation’s current
expectation and assumptions, and is subject to a number of risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those anticipated. Such risks include, among
others, general business and economic conditions and competitive
actions as well as the risks and uncertainties referred to in
Zi Corporation’s 20-F for the most recent calendar year.
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