TeleCruz and Zenith Announce Plans to Develop Interactive Televisions

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2000 — TeleCruz Technology Inc., the leading innovator of interactive television platforms, today announced a product development agreement with Zenith Electronics Corporation to integrate TeleCruz’s patented technology inside Zenith’s multimedia television platform, enabling the first generation of integrated interactive television sets.

Planned for availability in the first half of 2001, the first implementation of TeleCruz-enabled Zenith televisions will offer consumers easy access to interactive TV services such as E-mail, chat, Internet browsing and shopping––without the need for a set-top box. The new TVs will be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6, 2001, and will be demonstrated in TeleCruz booth number 5835 and Zenith booth number 2027.

“Our partnership with Zenith represents a monumental step toward the future of interactive television,” said Kris Narayan, founder and chairman of TeleCruz. “From the beginning, our mission has been to enable true interactivity by merging the broadcast and Internet worlds. Zenith interactive TVs powered by TeleCruz will deliver a pure interactive experience in a single, integrated source of complete entertainment, information and commerce.”

TeleCruz allows television manufacturers to take advantage of the emerging interactive television industry with its development of an open-platform, system-on-a-chip architecture that is capable of supporting interactive capabilities being created by advertisers, content creators and broadcasters alike. TeleCruz also is working with other television manufacturers as well as ISPs and interactive content providers, such as AT&T, Earthlink, Yack.com and Spiderdance. Through its wide range of alliances TeleCruz aims to bring the benefits of interactive television to average television viewers.