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Weekly UpdatesMetrowerks, Austin, Texas, is working with the Tao Group to enable application and content development for Tao's intent(r), a high-performance, portable media platform for consumer appliances. Leveraging its strengths in the wireless and consumer entertainment markets, Metrowerks is providing CodeWarrior(r) development tools for the intent platform, including the intent, Java(tm) Technology Edition, a Sun Authorized Java(tm) compliant and branded engine that runs real world, rich multimedia Java content extraordinarily fast and in very small footprints.
Tao's intent provides a complete and portable framework that allows developers to easily create multimedia content, such as 3D video games, that run on connected digital appliances, even low-end client devices. The Tao technology is used by many of the world's leading consumer electronics manufacturers, including Sharp, JVC and Grundig.
"This agreement will give developers the opportunity to target a single platform and reach a broad array of consumer appliances with high-performance applications and content," said David Perkins, president and CEO, Metrowerks. "Tao's software is being integrated as core technology by world class OEMs -- many of whom already use CodeWarrior -- for set-top boxes, PDAs, wireless phones, web tablets and other appliances enabling a new generation of premium content for consumers."
Under the agreement, Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE), debugger and Java compiler will combine with the Tao SDK to allow developers to quickly create compelling multimedia content and applications for Tao's high performance language independent platform on a variety of consumer appliances.
Stated Francis Charig, chairman of Tao, "Having a world-class tool chain has been a fundamental requirement for Tao. Our tools partner, Metrowerks, gives us the access to the content community, the global presence, the reputation amongst the OEMs and, most important of all, the quality and functionality of a product that the market desires. The relationship with Metrowerks is already helping accelerate our company's growth."
The intent suite is available as a binary portable content engine on operating systems such as Windows(r) 95, Windows(r) 98, Windows(r) NT, Windows(r) CE for MIPS, Linux(r), Embedded Linux, EPOC, VxWorks(r), OS-9000(r) and Elate(r). Elate was designed by Tao from its inception as a multimedia, deterministic operating system
The first CodeWarrior for intent products will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001, following a beta program that will be launched in the third quarter.
About Metrowerks Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Metrowerks develops, markets and supports CodeWarrior hardware and software development tools and middleware for a number of operating systems and the most popular microprocessors. CodeWarrior tools allow programmers to build applications from one unique integrated development environment (IDE). Metrowerks is an independently operating subsidiary of Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT).
For more information, visit the Metrowerks web site at http://www.metrowerks.com.
About Tao Tao has developed intent(R), a binary portable, language independent, high performance, multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs in their client products for home and mobile networks. The technology allows these companies to have a single strategy across all of their platforms, irrespective of operating system, hardware and function. intent is now being used in products including smart mobile appliances and digital television. Tao's range of Java(TM) products have been designed from their inception to combine the Java language with Tao's multimedia to run real world-content many times faster than any alternative. The company was founded in 1992, has offices in the United States, Europe and Japan and counts both Sony and Motorola amongst its investors. Tao has a growing and high value, global patent portfolio and is the recipient of multiple industry awards, both for its technologies and for the rate of corporate growth.
For more information, call (512)997-4717.
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