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NEXIQ Technologies Introduces Intelligent Display Software Solution for 8- And 16-Bit Microprocessors; Software to Enable Small Intelligent Displays
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NEXIQ Technologies' (OTC Bulletin Board: NEXQ - News) IVIS-Lite software solution targets hardware platforms with limited memory and processor resources, focusing primarily on informational display applications. It utilizes a C-language interface for easy integration of existing code, compilers and development environments.
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"IVIS-Lite extends our IVIS product offering to the lower-end 8- and 16-bit systems that do not require the full 32-bit processing power," said James C. Griffin, Jr., Executive Vice President, Telematics Services. "However, IVIS-Lite and the GUIDE development environment will provide data management, graphic presentation and rapid design and development capabilities that our current IVIS customers are enjoying."
IVIS-Lite in the Market
IVIS-Lite can be used to design, prototype, test, and produce displays for automobiles, industrial and manufacturing equipment, consumer electronics, home appliances, and heavy vehicles, such as construction and agricultural equipment.
"We are receiving enthusiastic response from our IVIS customers and we are building significant momentum for becoming a standard of choice for telematics displays," noted Griffin. "IVIS technology significantly reduces the complexity and timeframes associated with designing and developing intelligent telematics systems and displays. In addition, we are receiving interest for using IVIS and IVIS-Lite with systems outside of the transportation sector where data and content management for displays is applicable."
The Morey Corp., Woodridge, Ill., currently provides IVIS-Lite as a development tool for its customers that build custom heavy equipment.
"IVIS Lite makes our customers' display development easier," said Peter Klein, Director of Sales and Marketing, Morey Corporation. "The easy-to-use development environment gives them the power to customize displays without having a large programming staff. This helps them realize cost and time savings."
Product Features and Benefits
IVIS-Lite includes the core functionality of NEXIQ Technologies' IVIS (In-Vehicle Information System), which was developed to enable telematics services in cars and vehicles. The full IVIS product is traditionally used for applications with high-resolution displays and significant multi-tasking and data storage requirements. IVIS-Lite is ideally suited for smaller, multi-screen information displays. Displays with high-resolution graphical interfaces and many data sources are best served by the full IVIS framework.
The same design environment, GUIDE (Graphical User Interface Development Environment), is used to rapidly design, prototype and produce fully functional display applications for both IVIS product offerings. GUIDE allows designers to incorporate any WindowsTM bitmap or TrueType font, providing maximum customization of interface designs. GUIDE provides automatic generation and compilation of code for quick and easy implementation. Code is automatically generated for easy implementation.
IVIS-Lite performs on 8- and 16-bit processors and requires only 256K to 1MB of memory. It features real-time antialiasing and supports color or monochrome displays of up to VGA resolution. Its C-based interface allows for the easy integration of existing code, compilers and development environments. Though operating systems are supported on target hardware platforms, they are not required.
About NEXIQ Technologies
NEXIQ Technologies is focused on advanced diagnostic and telematics solutions that provide seamless information and operations management capabilities to the commercial and automotive vehicle industry. The company also develops software solutions for intelligent displays. NEXIQ Technologies is headquartered in Sterling Heights, Mich., with significant operations in Coralville, Iowa. ( http://www.nexiq.com )
SOURCE: NEXIQ Technologies, Inc.
Fonix Applications Integrated with Wind River Development Tools
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (January 30, 2001) - Fonix Corporation (OTC BB: FONX), a leading provider of human-user interface technology and voice solutions for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics, and Wind River announced today that Fonix has joined the Wind River (Nasdaq: WIND) WindLinkTM Partner Program.
The Wind River WindLink Partner Program provides members with products and services that work hand-in-hand with Wind River´s own products to offer a complete engineering solution for embedded products. These partner solutions enable developers to add features to products that will solidify Fonix as a speech technology leader in the marketplace. Designing a product for today´s fast-paced markets demands smarter products built in less time, with the right level of integration, and with added value to the end user.
"Combining Wind River's broad base of leading embedded software and services with Fonix human-interface and voice technologies expertise is a winning combination," said Caroline Yao, group manager of partner solutions for Wind River. "Through our WindLink partnership we will be able to deliver cutting-edge voice solutions to meet the growing opportunities and customer needs in a variety of vertical markets."
The WindLink Partner Program is focused on helping hardware and software developers, system integrators, and consultants to create and sell products and services that complement or are integrated with Wind River Products. With the WindLink Partner Program, Fonix will be able to take part in global, strategic marketing, and development initiatives that will promote Fonix leading-edge products. Wind River will also work with Fonix to develop and penetrate new industries and vertical markets, and increase overall business.
"We look forward to working with Wind River in building complete solutions for markets and customers demanding speech solutions for mobile computing devices," said Paul Clayson, Fonix vice president of strategic business development. "Our leverage with Wind River's worldwide sales channels will significantly expand our market presence, while we continue to release new speech-enhanced products and solutions."
Fonix partners and customers who are also members of the Wind River WindLink Partner Program include Epson, Intel, MIPS Technologies, Inc., Motorola, and Texas Instruments.
About Fonix Corporation
Fonix Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX) is a leading provider of human-user interface technology solutions for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics. Leading chip manufactures, independent software and hardware vendors, and Internet content and service providers incorporate Fonix technology to provide their customers with an easier and more convenient user experience. Fonix products, including Text-To-Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Handwriting Recognition (HWR), provide the most natural communication solutions available.
For more information visit www.Fonix.com or call (801) 553-6600
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Wind River Contact Information: Justin Kuykendall, justin.kuykendall@windriver.com
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Note: The statements released by Fonix Corporation that are not purely historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the Company's expectations, hopes, intentions, and strategies for the future. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business prospects and performance. It is important to note that the Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Risk factors including general economic, competitive, governmental, and technological factors as discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The Company does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
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Artificial Intelligence Hasn't Peaked (Yet)
By KATIE HAFNER
Just what constitutes artificial
intelligence has always been a matter of
some dispute. And the terms of the
argument change with each new advance in
computer science.
Seen one way, as the effort to produce
machines whose output cannot be
distinguished from that of a human, artificial
intelligence, or A.I., is still very far away.
But from another perspective, it is all
around us.
Thirty years ago, for instance, speech
recognition was an artificial-intelligence
problem of the first order. Today it is
commonplace, a fact that is evident to
anyone who has called the United Airlines
flight information line or has used speech
transcription software.
"These things are considered A.I. before
you do them," said Dr. Danny Hillis, who
has been working in the field for years.
"And after you do it, they're considered
engineering."
Other fruits of artificial intelligence research
abound as well. Whether you are struggling
to beat your Palm organizer at chess,
watching your word processing program
correct your spelling or playing a video
game, you are witnessing the ways in which
artificial intelligence has insinuated itself
into daily life.
"A.I. is becoming more important as it has
become less conspicuous, and it's less
conspicuous because it's everywhere, but
often under the surface," said Dr. Patrick
Winston, a professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology who was the
director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab
there for 25 years.
Since the time when the first work was
being done by Dr. Marvin Minsky, Dr.
John McCarthy, Dr. Winston and others at
M.I.T., in the 1950's and 1960's, computer
scientists have generally agreed that artificial
intelligence would arrive incrementally.
"We're engineering A.I. one piece at a
time," said Dr. Hillis, a former student of
Dr. Minsky's and chairman of Applied
Minds, a start-up in Glendale, Calif.
Dr. Hillis and others said that the machine
intelligence currently in evidence fell along a
spectrum.
At the less intelligent end are things like smart washing machines and coffeepots —
appliances that can figure out how dirty a load of clothes is or when to turn off a coffee
warmer. Experts generally agree that such appliances are the product of rather sophisticated
microprocessors and sensors, not evidence of artificial intelligence.
At the other end are machines whose output is genuinely difficult to distinguish from a
human's, like I.B.M.'s chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, and Aaron, a robotic artist that
produces paintings that could easily pass for human work.
And somewhere in the middle are speech recognition programs, used in lieu of word
processors; collaborative filtering software, like that used by Amazon.com to make purchase
recommendations; and search engines that respond to questions phrased in full sentences, not
just search terms.
One reason for the proliferation of machine intelligence in the commercial world is the
seeding of the computer industry with artificial-intelligence researchers who have moved
beyond academia and taken jobs at high-tech companies.
The Microsoft Corporation, for instance, employs about 80 artificial-intelligence researchers,
many of whom came from universities. For several years, Microsoft has sold its Office
software with various embedded intelligence features, like the automatic correction of
frequently misspelled words and the Answer Wizard, which anticipates the needs of users
who look up topics in the electronic documentation.
An infamous piece of Microsoft software that includes components of artificial intelligence is
the Paper Clip help wizard, which pops up on the screen to offer advice. Many people say
Paper Clip pops up too often with unwanted suggestions.
In defense of Paper Clip, Dr. Winston said: "It's less annoying than it would have been
without A.I. It does try to zero in on what kinds of information you're most interested in,
and that sort of thing will get better and better as time goes by."
Microsoft's next big step into the marketplace with a product that incorporates artificial
intelligence will be its Outlook Mobile Manager, a system that scrutinizes each incoming
e-mail message, does an automatic synopsis, throws away extraneous words and abbreviates
others, then sends the message to the user's mobile device. The product is scheduled to be
released next year.
"It's what a great secretary would do," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's senior vice president
for advanced strategies.
Researchers in artificial intelligence at Microsoft are also working on a more general effort
called the Attentional User Interfaces and Systems Project, which includes a project for
continually monitoring streams of data like e-mail, voice mail, Internet news alerts and
instant messages. The system will gauge what the computer user is doing, assign priorities to
the messages and decide whether and when to interrupt.
Other graduates of university-based artificial intelligence programs have started companies of
their own. In 1983, Dr. Hillis co-founded the Thinking Machines Corporation, a
supercomputer company that was bought by other companies in the 1990's. In 1986, Dr.
Winston and three colleagues at M.I.T. started Ascent Technology in Cambridge, Mass., to
apply the research they had been doing to help airports solve scheduling and allocation
problems like gate assignments for aircraft.
Dr. Winston said the first commercialization efforts of artificial intelligence, in the 1980's,
had made an obvious mistake. "We blundered about what we thought A.I. was going to be
good for, which was replacing people," he said. "What we discovered was that's not the
commercial appeal of A.I. It's about making things possible that weren't possible with
people alone."
As examples, Dr. Winston pointed to a project at the Artificial Intelligence Lab for giving
brain surgeons a kind of X-ray vision by coupling video images with M.R.I. images. He
also pointed to the Mars Rover, which navigates terrain autonomously.
Another M.I.T. spinoff is the iRobot Corporation, started 10 years ago by Dr. Rodney
Brooks, the current director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab. The company developed an
interactive doll with Hasbro called My Real Baby and in February will begin selling the
iRobot-LE, a self-navigating home robot that will be equipped with sonar and a camera and
will be controlled via the Web.
Of course, there are those who disagree that pieces of the artificial intelligence puzzle are
falling into place incrementally. "It's very much like a country that's declaring a war that it's
losing to be won and then withdrawing," said Dr. Douglas Lenat, an artificial intelligence
researcher who is president of Cycorp in Austin, Tex.
By way of example, Dr. Lenat described the shortcomings of speech recognition programs
currently on the market. "They are just the palest shadows of what we can, should and soon
will have with real A.I.," he said. "You have to speak the punctuation marks, and that's
pretty pathetic. And they don't recognize the simplest inflections for things like italics and
commas.
"There is still this tremendously important problem, which is to get computers to know
enough about the world that they can do the final few percentage points of speech
recognition."
Dr. Lenat's criticism of speech recognition raises the larger question of what constitutes
intelligence.
Dr. Hillis addressed that question this way: "Intelligence is just a whole lot of little things,
thousands of them. And what will happen is we'll learn about each one one at a time, and as
we do it, machines will be more and more like people. It will be a gradual process, and that's
been happening."
Dr. Ray Kurzweil, an artificial intelligence researcher who created the Kurzweil
VoiceReport, a speech recognition program, agreed that "machines still do not have the
subtlety, depth, range and richness of human intelligence because it is still a million times
simpler than the human brain."
"That gap," Dr. Kurzweil continued, "is going to go away, and when it does, then machines
can combine the subtlety and pattern-recognition strengths with the other natural advantages
they already have, and that will be a very formidable combination."
Perhaps the flight schedule information line that understands words like "Chicago" and
"today" helps take machines a step closer to duplicating the outward signs of a person's
intelligence. But the artificial intelligence field remains far short of modeling human
consciousness and the inner mind.
"A.I. has done a lot of little things that are very powerful," Dr. Winston said. "On the other
hand, on the science side, where we try to understand what makes humans work, we're still
a long way from that prize, and we need to work hard on it if we want to understand our
intelligence the same way molecular biologists understand our genes."
The world of artificial intelligence would not be the same without a robotic lawnmower,
available for about $800 from Friendly Robotics, which has its United States headquarters in
Irving, Tex.
Dr. Brooks, of M.I.T., has used the device, called the Robomower, on his own yard in
suburban Boston. He said that although it did a respectable job on a patch of lawn, the family
gardener's reaction reinforced Dr. Winston's point. "He looked at that third of the lawn and
said, `I guess I'm not out of a job soon,' " Dr. Brooks said.
New i-Phones may upstage 3G debut
By Reed Stevenson, ZDNet News
As the whole world waits for lightning fast third-generation wireless, insiders
say Java-enabled 2.5G is the one to watch.
TOKYO -- Hyper-fast third-generation mobile phones are coming to Japan in
mid-2001, at least 18 months ahead of the rest of the world, but their landmark
debut will be eclipsed by innovations in existing technology, analysts say.
Japan's second-generation "2G" phones, including NTT
DoCoMo's popular 'i-mode' Web-linked service, already
offer Internet access, business card-sized color screens and
an array of organizer functions, and more advances are
planned for the first half of next year.
"The best scenario for DoCoMo would be to extend i-mode's popularity," said Tsubasa Securities analyst
Motoharu Sone.
I-mode has attracted 16.8 million users in its brief 22-month history and is still growing at the breakneck
pace of 40,000 to 50,000 new subscribers each day.
Still available only in Japan, i-mode has vast potential for global growth, analysts say, since European and
U.S. carriers have had little success luring a wide user base to Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), a
competing standard.
By contrast, analysts and industry players say that advanced 3G, despite eye-popping features such as full-motion video and CD-quality
sound, looks poised for a subdued debut.
Subdued debut
The first 3G services due in May, while able to deliver data at 64 kilobits per second, or six times faster than 2G, will still fall far short of the
384 kbps maximum that 3G technology would permit.
And initially, corporate users will likely be the only ones interested in 3G services, which are expected to be priced beyond the reach of most
individuals.
DoCoMo itself has played down any suggestions that 3G phones -- at least in their early phase -- will be a hot new gadget for consumers to
play with.
"The assumed 3G model of watching video over the Net may not be the best way to generate revenue," said Keiichi Enoki, NTT DoCoMo's
managing director for i-mode services. He noted that users are unlikely to want to stare at a small cell-phone screen for hours at a time.
Hyped expectations
Hyped expectations for 3G technology raised telecoms shares around the world to unseen heights earlier this year, but doubts have eroded
more than $200 billion in market value from the top 10 telecoms firms in the last six months.
Still, DoCoMo is confident it will be the first to find the best business model for 3G services and recoup its investments.
Analysts generally agree, citing DoCoMo's lead over global competitors such as Vodafone Group Plc, adding that its closing share price of
2.13 million yen on Wednesday, down nearly half since the beginning of the year, vastly undervalues its business.
"Share performance in 2000 was at its worst," Tsubasa's Sone said. "I think we can expect a better performance in 2001."
A jolt of Java
Analysts also point to changes taking place at the higher end of current technology -- or "2.5G" -- such as adding the versatile Java software
platform, and predict these will upstage 3G's launch.
"I think it's going to be more a year of Java than a year of 3G" said Kate Lye, telecoms analyst at UBS Warburg.
Subscribers in Japan can already check their e-mail, surf more than 20,000 i-mode-tailored Web sites and download the latest ringing tones or
screensavers.
Java, a versatile programming language developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) that runs mini-programs called
applets, will boost security for mobile phone-based commercial transactions by encrypting credit card numbers and bank account information,
making it safer to pay for things online.
Java will also spur location-based services on 2G phones, such as chirping when the user nears a store that is holding a sale. Java-enabled
mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service will hit the market in January, followed by competitors DDI Corp., better known as
KDDI, and Japan Telecom Co. Ltd.'s J-phone in the middle of the year.
Content is king
"As the world's premier wireless data provider, NTT DoCoMo is the best-positioned carrier to realize (and demonstrate) the benefits of
Java," Dresdner Kleinwort Benson analyst Kirk Boodry said in a report.
In addition, the already wide assortment of 2G mobile phone content in Japan is about to get wider.
DoCoMo will integrate its mobile phone services with America Online Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL - news) local Internet service provider AOL Japan,
allowing users to access e-mail through both providers, as well as the vast pool of media content brought to the table by AOL's merger with
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - news)
Restaurant guides, news, interactive games and a wealth of other information and services are already available on i-mode.
Java-enabled phones will bring more sophistication, including a Web-based fishing game in which the phone vibrates when a fish takes the
bait and is ready to be reeled in with the jog-shuttle dial.
Mobile phone handsets made by Sony Corp. will be able to play MP3 digital music files from a gumstick-sized memory storage unit, which
can be inserted into a special slot at one end of the phone.
DoCoMo has also tied up with Sony Computer Entertainment, a Sony subsidiary, to develop interactive games that can be played both on
i-mode phones on the road and on PlayStation video game machines at home.
Blue Martini Software Signs Global Pact With Intel
Companies to Work Together to Optimize and Market Blue Martini Customer Interaction System for
Intel-based Platforms
SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Martini Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLUE - news) a provider of enterprise software applications to
understand, target and interact with customers, announced today it has signed an agreement with Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC - news) to
collaborate on engineering, marketing and sales activities. The companies will work together at Intel Solutions Centers to optimize the Java-architected
Blue Martini Customer Interaction System for the Intel® Pentium® III Xeon(TM) processor as well as the upcoming Itanium(TM) processor family.
The tight integration between Intel-powered hardware and the Blue Martini Customer Interaction System (B2B and B2C Editions) will ensure high
performance and scalability of all Blue Martini applications on Intel-based platforms and architectures.
As part of the relationship, Blue Martini Software will join the Intel e-Business Center Affiliate Program to showcase Blue Martini's software to key
technology decision-makers. The companies will produce technical papers on the results of the tuning and porting, and Blue Martini intends to create a
training module for the Blue Martini Customer Interaction System that will be offered through Intel training programs to e-business service providers.
``We're seeing a continued, upward trend from our customer base towards end-to-end solutions,'' said Chip Overstreet, vice president, business
development, Blue Martini Software. ``The requirement is not only for packaged applications, but also for partners that are already collaborating at the
technology level. By working closely with Intel, we will be able to deliver to our customers a technically superior, comprehensive and integrated
package that meets their requirements to help understand, target and interact with customers.''
``The next generation of e-Business demands solutions that meet the broad spectrum of customer interactions while maintaining scalability and
cost-effective deployment,'' said Will Swope, general manager, Intel Solutions Enabling Group. ``We look forward to working with Blue Martini
Software to optimize its Customer Interaction System to work on IA systems to improve business operations for our joint customers.''
About Blue Martini Software
Blue Martini Software provides enterprise software applications to understand, target and interact with customers. Companies deploy the Blue Martini
Customer Interaction System to interact with customers on the Web, via call centers, in stores, over wireless devices, through e-mail, direct mail and on
marketplaces. Business people use the Customer Interaction System to manage catalogs, content, transactions, analysis and personalization. Companies
that interact directly with customers build their brands more effectively than those using only traditional media, resulting in increased revenue
opportunities across all channels. Blue Martini's customers include Oncology Therapeutics Network (OTN), Polaroid, Systemax, Canadian Tire
Corporation, Giant Eagle Grocery, Harley-Davidson, Levi Strauss & Co. and Saks Fifth Avenue. Blue Martini can be reached at 650-356-4000 or
www.bluemartini.com.
``Blue Martini'' and ``Blue Martini Software'' are trademarks of Blue Martini Software, Inc. 2600 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. Other
product and company names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
This news release regarding Blue Martini's collaboration with Intel includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not
limited to: delays in the development or release of new products or product enhancements by Blue Martini, risk as related to market acceptance of Blue
Martini's product; customization, deployment and/or operational delays or errors associated with Blue Martini's product or those of third parties; Blue
Martini's need to maintain and enhance business relationships with systems integrators and other parties; activities by Blue Martini and others regarding
protection of intellectual property; and release of competitive products and other actions by competitors. Further details on these risks are set forth in
Blue Martini's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC''), including its filing on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2000. These filings are available on a Web site maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements are generally
identified by words such as ``expect,'' ``anticipate,'' ``intend,'' ``believe,'' ``hope,'' ``assume,'' ``estimate,'' ``plan,'' ``should'' and other similar
words and expressions. Blue Martini does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.
SOURCE: Blue Martini Software
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Vocal
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53week
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S&F
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StapleandFold
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