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http://www.spyglass.com/newsflash/releases/020899prism22.html For Immediate Release Contact: Amanda Ingalls Spyglass 1.630.245.6512 [email protected] Fonda Berosini Shandwick Convergence 1.310.201.8857 [email protected] Spyglass Ships Prism 2.2 Internet Content Delivery Platform Latest Technology Release Adds Ability to Deliver Web Content to Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Cell Phones and Other Devices NEW ORLEANS - Monday, February 8, 1999 - Spyglass* Inc. (NASDAQ: SPYG) announced today at Wireless '99 the immediate availability of Spyglass Prism 2.2, the content delivery platform that dynamically converts standard Internet content into formats that match the specific requirements of any Internet device, including handhelds, televisions and mobile phones. Applications and services developed on Spyglass Prism 2.2 enable service providers to leverage a single infrastructure to offer integrated support for a wide variety of devices. Such efficiencies are achieved by leveraging Spyglass Prism's dynamic content conversion capabilities. These capabilities optimize the delivery of Web-based content on network bandwidth and latency, content size and format, and the device's desired representation of the information. With Spyglass Prism 2.2, the ability to format content in WML, the markup language used by WAP-enabled cell phones, has been added. Content providers also benefit from using Spyglass Prism since it eliminates the need to create and maintain multiple versions of a Web site, where each version is targeted to a particular device. Spyglass Prism can also serve as an application framework that enables the creation of "e-care" (electronic customer care) services. This opens cost-saving customer services to a wide variety of devices while reducing the need for continual changes to the e-care application as new devices come online. "Service providers and content developers alike can benefit from Spyglass Prism's flexible architecture," said Jack Armstrong, Spyglass director of Internet solutions. "Spyglass Prism can serve as the basis for revenue-generating applications and services that need to deliver existing Web-based content to a wide variety of devices in a cost-effective manner." Spyglass Prism 2.2 conforms to existing WAP standards to ensure it will work with other similarly WAP-compliant products, converting content for any WAP-compliant browser and communicating with any WAP gateway. WAP is the de facto world standard for wireless information and telephony services on digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. Handset manufacturers representing over 75 percent of the world market across all technologies have committed to shipping WAP-enabled devices. Carriers representing nearly 100 million subscribers worldwide have joined the WAP Forum. To support WAP devices, Spyglass Prism 2.2 converts HTML, or standard Internet and intranet content, to WML. Spyglass Prism 2.2 can also split one document into multiple, smaller, linked documents if the device has limited memory and display. Spyglass Prism 2.2 also performs image conversions, converting GIF and JPEG images into WBMP, the WAP image format. In addition, Spyglass Prism 2.2 can scale images so they fit in a limited display area. "Spyglass has been a long-time active member of the WAP Forum," said Armstrong. "WAP provides a standardized communications protocol optimized for wireless data services. Solutions built on Spyglass Prism complement the WAP architecture by allowing WAP-enabled cell phones and other devices to gain access to Internet and intranet based information services." About Spyglass Spyglass (NASDAQ: SPYG) provides Internet expertise, software and services for making devices work with the Web. Particularly active in the cable and satellite television, wireless telecommunications, consumer electronics and office equipment markets, Spyglass solutions are used by market-leading companies including GTE, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA) and Xerox. Spyglass headquarters are located at 1240 East Diehl Rd., Naperville, Ill., 60563; phone: 630.245.6512; fax: 630.245.6693; press email inquiries: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.spyglass.com -30- (February 1999) Spyglass and the Spyglass logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Spyglass, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois. (Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.) This release contains information about management's future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors that are discussed in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 1998, which is on file with the SEC. |
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