New Motorola, Unisys Agreement Expands Access to Internet

New York and Schaumburg, Ill. (PROTEXT) - Integrated Offeringsfrom Industry Leaders to Make Development of Enhanced VoiceApplications Easy. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Unisys (NYSE: UIS) today announced anagreement expected to significantly expand access to theInternet. This agreement proposes to allow consumers to findinformation and conduct transactions on the Internet using anytelephone. For example, consumers could use any phone to call a travelcompany's specialized Web site that was created using the Unisysand Motorola technologies. The site would answer and the usercould book or change reservations as if two people were having averbal conversation. According to the agreement, Motorola will license itsVoxGateway(TM) software to Unisys and Unisys will license itsaward-winning Natural Language (NL) Speech Assistant toolkit andruntime environment to Motorola. Both plan to distributeVoxGateway software as part of their products. "The potential for this technology is overwhelming, and islimited only by the reaches of the Internet and telephone system.Unisys NL Speech Assistant tools simplify and accelerate speechapplication development and delivery without requiringspecialized developer skills," said Joe Yaworski, vice presidentand general manager of Unisys Natural Language Understandinginitiative. "The combination of Unisys speech technologyexpertise and Motorola's wireless Internet industry leadershipdelivers the potential to dramatically expand both the access to,and the business of, the Internet." "Motorola is very excited about the integration of the Unisyssoftware with the VoxGateway software," said Mitesh Patel,Motorola's Internet and Connectivity Solutions Division directorof mobile applications. "It will permit our VoxGateway softwareto support additional platforms and speech engines. The easy-to-use NL tools will encourage companies and third-party developersto create applications which will provide voice access to theInternet." The two companies plan to enhance the capabilities ofMotorola's VoxGateway software and integrate it with the NLtoolkit. These plans include developing an advanced NL SpeechAssistant Code Builder, which is expected to automaticallygenerate program code in VoxML(TM) programming language, aprecursor to the VoiceXML standard. By reducing the need formanual coding by application developers, this will create aneasy-to-use software development toolkit for third parties, whichis expected to mean more programs will be written that use thesetechnologies. The primary difference between the products will be in theirmarketing, with each company concentrating on its primarydistribution channels. Thus, Motorola will focus on carriers andUnisys on resellers and system integrators. This should broadenthe markets for both the NL toolkit and the VoxGateway softwareand increase the number of platforms deploying Motorola's VoxMLlanguage. Unisys and Motorola will demonstrate this excitingtechnological combination today at SpeechTEK at booth 146 at theNew York Hilton and Towers and also at the Unisys eBusiness eventtoday at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Related Developments Underscore Marketplace Need This technology integration provides a foundation for theVoiceXML standards proposal, which will support telephony andspeech access to the Internet. In March of this year, 20 leadingspeech, Internet and communications technology companiesannounced the formation of the VoiceXML Forum to develop standardaccess technology. Both companies are involved in defining thestandards. Specifically, Unisys is leading the definition of theNatural Language interface portion of the standard. Motorola, oneof the founding members of the Forum, is committed to advancingstandards-based Internet solutions. About the NL Speech Assistant The Natural Language (NL) Speech Assistant is an advancedspeech application development tool set. The NL Speech Assistantprovides application developers not only with the tools forspeech application design and creation but also for applicationproject management, development methodology and testing. Toprotect their applications from speech recognizer obsolescence,the NL Speech Assistant gives developers an open tool to designand develop spoken language applications across platforms andspeech recognizers. The integrated Motorola/Unisys technologypackage is expected to enable developers to dramatically reducedevelopment and deployment time of speech-based applications. Unisys has a complete reseller program for the NL SpeechAssistant, including platform integration, marketing and salessupport, technical support and training. Visithttp://www.marketplace.unisys.com/nlu for more information. About VoxGateway VoxGateway software, part of Motorola's Mobile InternetExchange(TM) (also known as the MIX(TM) communications platform),is a server product, which runs applications, developed in theVoxML(TM) programming language. Motorola also licenses an OEMversion of the VoxGateway software to technology partners. Theyadd value to Motorola's core technology by creating innovativeproducts, systems and applications enabling voice access toInternet. The Motorola VoxGateway software will supportapplications written using the Unisys tools, Motorola's VoxMLlanguage and in the emerging VoiceXML specification. About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader in providingintegrated communications solutions and embedded electronicsolutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4 billion. Additionalinformation is available at http://www.motorola.com . About Unisys Unisys is 35,000 employees helping customers in 100 countriesapply information technology to solve their business problems.Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of globalinformation services including electronic business, systemsintegration including custom and "repeatable" applicationsolutions, outsourcing, Microsoft Windows NT services, networkservices, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled withenterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software andstorage. Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical marketsincluding financial services, transportation, telecommunications,government, publishing, and other commercial markets. The companyis headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the GreaterPhiladelphia area. For more information on the company, accessthe Unisys home page on the World Wide Web athttp://www.unisys.com . Investor information can be found athttp://www.unisys.com/investor . Unisys is a registered trademark and NL Speech Assistant andNL Enabled are trademarks of Unisys Corporation. Motorola is aregistered trademark and Mobile Internet Exchange, MIX, VoxML,and VoxGateway are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. All other brandsand products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarksor registered trademarks of their respective holders. For more information contact: Oliver L. Picher of Unisys, 215-986-5367, Oliver.Picher@unisys.com; Andrew Fingerman of BSMGWorldwide, 212-445-8214, afinger@bsmg.com, for Unisys; Julie Rothof Motorola, 847-732-1499, roth@icsd.mot.com, Natalie Link ofMotorola, Europe, 44-1256-790-707, Natalie.Line@motorola.com,Mauricio Bendeck of Motorola, Latin America, 954-267-5412,Mauricio.benedeck@motorola.com, or Steven Lyons of Motorola,Asia, 852-296-6300, Steven_Lyons@email.mot.com ots Original TextService: Motorola Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact:Oliver L. Picher of Unisys, (USA) 215-986-5367,Oliver.Picher@unisys.com; Andrew Fingerman of BSMG Worldwide,(USA) 212-445-8214, afinger@bsmg.com, for Unisys; Julie Roth ofMotorola, (USA) 847-732-1499, roth@icsd.mot.com, Natalie Link ofMotorola, Europe, 44-1256-790-707, Natalie.Line@motorola.com,Mauricio Bendeck of Motorola, Latin America, 954-267-5412,Mauricio.benedeck@motorola.com, or Steven Lyons of Motorola,Asia, 852-296-6300, Steven_Lyons@email.mot.com Web site:http://www.unisys.com/investor Web site: http://www.motorola.comWeb site: http://www.mot.com

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