Endlich - General Magic mit Umsatz von 3905 Stück auf 5 Euro - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

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Hi

70% in einer Woche ist nicht schlecht (von 2.75 -> 4.70), jedoch
wird General Magic mit Sicherheit noch höhere Kurse sehen (ca. 25 Euro).

Was dann immerhin 400% Plus für die nächsten 12-18 Monate wären.
Der General Motors Deal scheint den Kurs zu beflügeln und
der Umsatz dürfte sich dadurch sehr positiv entwickeln.

Die MCAP beträgt zur Zeit nur rund 250 Mill. $, was gegenüber
Konkurrent Lernout & Hauspie, die mit mehreren Milliarden $ bewertet
werden, minimal ist.
OK Lernout macht zur Zweit bereits mehr Umsatz, aber mit dem General
Motors Deal katapultiert sich GMGC weit nach vorne!!!


http://www.generalmagic.com/news/news_gmnews.shtml
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Ford, GM go for car talk technology
By Charles J. Murray
EE Times
(04/21/00, 11:47 a.m. EST)

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — Stepping up the race to bring e-mail to vehicles, two of the world`s biggest carmakers have formed partnerships to develop better voice-recognition systems.

Ford Motor Co. will invest $20 million in Lernout & Hauspie to develop speech technologies while General Motors is teaming with General Magic Inc. and Nuance Communications to continue work on voice-recognition systems. In a separate move, Delphi Automotive Systems has allied with Lernout & Hauspie to put voice recognition in a Palm V handheld computer and docking station that links cars to the Net.

The race to create more effective speech systems is now seen as critical for automakers. Several of them, most notably Ford and GM, have said they are devoted to an "eyes-on-the-road, hands-on-the-wheel" philosophy as they work to incorporate e-mail capabilities into automobiles.

"When the Web first emerged, people talked about GUIs [graphical user interfaces]," said Mike Peterson, director of the Virtual Advisor program at OnStar, GM`s provider of cellular-based information services. "Now, as voice recognition emerges in automobiles, everyone`s talking about VUIs (voice user interfaces)."

Voice user interfaces will enable drivers to access e-mail intuitively, without having to touch a knob or dial on the dashboard, Peterson said. Using voice recognition, voice-to-text and text-to-voice technology, automakers are already developing systems that can access e-mail and read it to drivers.

"Ease-of-use is going to be the key to success for automotive e-mail," said Adam J. Weiner, a senior analyst for Gomez Advisors (Lincoln, Mass), an e-commerce research and consulting firm. "It`s got to be intuitive in order to appeal to consumers."


Ford`s system uses an on-board Pentium to provide news, stock quotes and e-mail.

If such systems can draw consumers, automakers foresee tremendous financial potential. More than 1.6 billion e-mails — about three times the number of first class mailings — are sent every day in the United States, according to estimates by e-Marketer, a New York City-based Internet market research firm. As a result, automakers believe that if they can offer e-mail capabilities in their vehicles, they can build a service market to go with their product sales. "There`s definitely incentive in service revenues," Weiner said. "Once the system is set up and they`ve recovered the cost, each new user is pure profit."

That`s why OnStar announced two weeks ago that it will offer its so-called Virtual Advisor in 2001 General Motors automobiles. Virtual Advisor will enable drivers to access stock quotes, news headlines, sports scores, weather and e-mail through their cellular phones and voice-recognition systems. The system uses a virtual voice with a vocabulary of several thousand words located at a remote Java-based server. It also employs an on-board voice-recognition system with a very small vocabulary — just big enough to access the phone and connect the user with the server. Once connected, subscribers will go to the OnStar Web site, where they can link up with services.

"It`s almost like one huge radio station," Peterson said. "But instead of a smattering of information, users will get personalized services." OnStar expects the Virtual Advisor to be in a million vehicles by year`s end, a spokesperson said. OnStar`s design philosophy differs dramatically, however, from that of Visteon Corp., Ford`s vehicle systems and component manufacturing operation, and Clarion Corp., which offers an aftermarket in-car PC. The key difference, say engineers, is that OnStar`s system is "thin" — meaning that it incorporates few on-board electronics. A basic processor board using Windows CE carries only 12 Mbytes of memory — just enough to handle a small vocabulary. Though OnStar won`t identify the processor it`s using, it will say that the processor provides enough capability to run "Veronica," the virtual voice that OnStar has used since its inception.

A Web server for OnStar`s Virtual Advisor uses more than 700 Mbytes of memory and a 1-GHz processor. "Voice-recognition capabilities are a function of a server`s processor speed and memory," said Karen-ann Terrell, director of e-Vehicle Product Management for e-GM, a new General Motors division that develops e-business. "The reason we do it that way is that we can still add applications and keep cost out of the vehicle."

To augment the voice-recognition system developed in-house at General Motors, OnStar forged the partnerships with General Magic (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nuance (Menlo Park, Calif.). General Magic, which is partially owned by GM, develops the VUI used in the server-based voice-recognition system. It then licenses voice-recognition technology for use in the system from Nuance.

In contrast, Visteon`s system is considered a "thick" client technology: Its processing power is located in the vehicle, not a remote site. Using the company`s dashboard computer ICES (for Information, Communication, Safety and Security), Visteon can link drivers to the same news, weather, stock quotes and e-mail as OnStar. It can also link up to Visteon`s RESCU (Remote Emergency Satellite Cellular Unit) for turn-by-turn navigation.

The design difference, however, is that ICES takes significant on-board processing power. It uses a 166-MHz Intel Pentium processor with a Windows CE operating system. "We know that the applications we launch today aren`t the end-alls," said Lori Markatos, product team leader for ICES. "And we don`t want new applications to bring the system down. So we essentially have a desktop in the car."

Something ventured

Visteon plans to develop its system further through a 40 percent stake in a new partnership with Lernout & Hauspie (Burlington, Mass.). The new joint venture, which is scheduled for a midyear launch, is expected to employ 50 people developing speech technology.

In the meantime, Visteon is working on an OEM version of ICES for an unnamed automotive program that is "not necessarily within Ford," a spokesperson said. It also announced in January that it will develop an aftermarket version of ICES that will go head to head with Clarion`s AutoPC. Visteon is reportedly working with fleet owners to incorporate the aftermarket device into existing product lines.

Ultimately, the goal at both OnStar and Visteon is to bring out speech-recognition systems that will let users speak at normal speed, without needing to memorize a list of commands. That ambitious job requires the expertise of outside developers.