EO and PenPoint to Support Telescript

One of the most intriguing questions raised by the General Magic announcement is its relation to other early pen computer and personal communicator companies. Foremost on this list are EO, Inc. and GO Corp., which supply the EO Personal Communicator and PenPoint operating system respectively. This is all the more interesting as both AT&T and Matsushita announced a strategic relationship with EO at last November’s Fall COMDEX.

But mysterious no more. EO announced an agreement with General Magic on February 8 to implement the Telescript system on EO’s PenPoint-based personal communicators. EO’s devices and associated software are already heavily geared towards communications and hope to use Telescript to support both intelligent and rich messages (incorporating graphics, sound and animation). EO is also hoping to leverage Telescript to enable communicators from several vendors to transparently exchange rich messages.

EO plans to release the Telescript-based software when AT&T’s Telescript network is commercially available. Together with GO, EO plans to offer its implementation of Telescript to other hardware vendors using the PenPoint operating system. According to Wink Grelis at EO, Inc., the Telescript effort has been under way at EO for several months.

Contact:

EO, Inc.
800A E. Middlefield Rd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-903-8100