This will enable Sigma to embed robust digital content metering as well as secure transaction and application processing capabilities into Sigma's OEM customer products. Initial prototypes can be sampled in the third quarter of 1999. Sigma is currently co-marketing with Wave to a number of PC OEM partners to integrate this new technology into their products. The software community can benefit from a new distribution platform, flexible pricing models, and the security inherent in trusted-client technology.
Consumers receive the flexibility of paying for information based on their actual usage.
About Wave Systems Corp Founded in 1988, the mission of Wave Systems Corporation is to create the world's best technologies and services to secure and sell digital information. By moving secure transactions to the desktop, Wave provides intrinsic value to the electronic commerce process, benefiting PC users, application developers, and hardware manufacturers. About Sigma Designs Sigma Designs, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., is an acknowledged leader in the fast-growing multimedia market. Except for statements of historical fact, the information presented herein constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such factors include general economic and business conditions, the ability to fund operations, the loss of market share, changes in consumer buying habits and other factors over which Wave Systems Corp. has little or no control.