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- From: bl3marsh@Swansea.ac.uk (Ben Marshall)
- Subject: ESCOM NEWS - Amiga tech lisenced to VISCORP
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- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:35:14 GMT
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- From Amiga Technologies Web site:
- http://www.amiga.de/de/Aktuelles/PressRelease260196.html
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- PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- VISCORP agreement complete
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- Bensheim 23/01/96
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- Chicago - January 12, 1996 - Visual Information Service Corp. (VISCORP), an
- INTERACTIVE TV developer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and AMIGA Technologies
- GmbH, headquartered in Bensheim, Germany, have finalized an international license agreement to
- adapt, utilize, license and distribute the AMIGA technology within VISCORP's interactive
- intelligent set-top TVthough a TV remote, a computer keyboard, a touch-sensitive pen or the microphone in the ED.
- Additional plans will enable consumers to play games (e.g., individually, against a networked
- opponent), or enable home shopping, electronic banking, and enable a subscriber to gain access
- to information services through a TV set.
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- About VISCORP
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- VISCORP develops and markets a brand of cost effective set-top appliances for the home,
- business, government and educational users of interactive TV devices. VISCORP's set-top
- device integrates the television and telephone line to access on-line services, interactive
- applications and direct Internet service through the TV set. Through blending of the existing
- VISCORP set-top TV appliance and the AMIGA technology, VISCORP will be able to provide
- a gateway for every household to enter into the age of interactive services at a cost-effective price
- and user friendly environment.
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- Gilles Bourdin
- AMIGA Technologies
- Berliner Ring 89
- D-64625 Bensheim
- Germany
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- Tel +49 6252 709 195
- Fax +49 6252 709 520
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- eMail: gbo@amiga.de
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- Amiga is a registered trademark of ESCOM AG
- POWER PC is a registered trademark of IBM corporation
-