Mitsubishi Electric Joins General Magic Alliance
TOKYO — November 30, 1994 — Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Wednesday announced it will join the General Magic Alliance and make an investment in General Magic Inc.
Mitsubishi has also been licensed to use the company's Magic Cap software, which includes Telescript technology to access Telescript networks.
"As a member of the General Magic Alliance as well as an investor, Mitsubishi Electric will play a key role in defining and building the hardware products, value-added services and content businesses for tomorrow's digital superhighway," said Yoshito (Super) Yamaguchi, managing director, Multimedia Business Development, Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
"The Alliance expands Mitsubishi Electric's solid base of expertise in consumer electronics, communications, information processing and semiconductors into software and services and allows the company to develop products and services based on what we believe will become an industry standard."
According to Yamaguchi, "The vision of the digital superhighway will only evolve if the myriad of products and services can work together in an intelligent way. To do so they need to be "open" and standardized. Alliances are crucial to the growth of standardization in this marketplace."
Magic Cap and Telescript technologies are designed for personal intelligent communication products and services. The Magic Cap software offers an easy-to-use interface and allows developers to build a new class of communicating applications.
The Magic Cap environment includes everything people need to interact through today's popular modes of communication: fax, electronic mail services, and telephones. Telescript is a breakthrough communication technology that enables people to send electronic agents into the worldwide grid of information highways. These agents will navigate through multiple networks and across diverse computer systems to perform tasks for their owners.
Mitsubishi Electric plans to utilize the Magic Cap platform in personal intelligent communication products, which will allow access to a wide range of Telescript-based services including AT&T PersonalLink Services.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is one of the leading electrical and electronics equipment firms in the world. The company offers a broad line of consumer electronics, information processing and communications systems, semiconductors and electronic devices and industrial equipment.
Mitsubishi Electric established the Multimedia Business Development Center (MED) in April 1994 to develop products, services and content businesses for the markets that emerge from the digital information superhighway.
The company also formed the North American Multimedia Business Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. a member of the Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. group companies, to focus on the North American market in collaboration with MBD.
General Magic was founded in May 1990. Its mission is to create personal intelligent communication products and services by developing and licensing technology to equipment manufacturers, network and information service providers and software and entertainment companies. The General Magic Alliance members to date are: Apple, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, France-Telecom, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Oki, NTT, Northern Telecom, Philips, Sony, Sanyo and Toshiba.
CONTACT:
Mitsubishi Electric Worldwide
Takeyoshi Komatsu, 81-3-3218-2346
or
Mitsubishi Electronics America
Sherry Hill, 408/774-3188
or
General Magic
Jane Anderson, 408/774-4040