It is a fully developed user interface that
manages the entire text input interface and display of eZiText and
eZiTap on the Series 60 Platform. The company's market leading ClixSmart Intelligent Mobile
Portal products offer a sophisticated colour portal solution for network
operators which enhances the user experience of the Mobile Internet, helps to
increase subscriber usage and stimulates increases in ARPU.
SurfPort(TM) is a trademark owned by TeliaSonera AB. The strategic addition of Hungarian
supports Teragram's morphological stemming, spelling correction, part-of-
speech tagging, word and sentence tokenization, automatic categorization and
entity extraction software products, which are essential in building
multilingual information retrieval and text mining applications .

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Zi is also offering a Zi FEP for its eZiText and eZiTap products
to Series 60 licensees.

For media interviews or tours at 3GSM please contact Brian Dolby
with GBCS PR on 07813 833464 or email brian@gbcspr. Such information speaks only as
of the date of this release. TeliaSonera is listed on the Stockholm Exchange and the
Helsinki Exchanges. 'your children'), "gyerekeidhez" (the
inflectional "hez" turns the meaning to 'to your children').teragram.

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The Zi FEP functions within Series 60
applications that require or provision predictive text entry
including messaging (SMS and MMS), Web browsing, calendar, phone
book, notes and others.

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The solutions
dramatically improve the usability of mobile phones, PDAs, gaming
devices and set-top boxes-and the applications on them including SMS,
MMS, e-mail and Internet browsing. associated companies). Support for
additional languages is forthcoming. For more information please contact 1-617-576-6800 or
visit http://www .

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Any projections in this release
are based on limited information currently available to Zi
Corporation , which is subject to change.


ClixSmart uses advanced artificial
intelligence techniques to offer a personalized mobile portal for each
individual subscriber, which will enhance the user experience for SurfPort
subscribers and enable them to quickly reach the most relevant services.
"ClixSmart will enable TeliaSonera to launch
a compelling and differentiated mobile internet service which will offer the
best possible user experience and drive up ARPU whilst minimising overheads
and optimising TeliaSonera's return on investment. associated companies) and 8,312,000 fixed
telephony customers (8,943,000 incl.
ClixSmart's sophisticated multi-portal management capabilities also
reduce portal administration overheads and remove the complexities involved
in managing third party content partners.

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For OEMs targeting
complex language markets, these modules can significantly reduce
engineering effort and time-to-market for development and deployment
of devices.
ClixSmart's personalized content discovery features such as intelligent
navigation, dynamic content teasers, targeted mobile campaigns and
intelligent associations will increase user awareness of services on SurfPort
and stimulate greater service take-up.

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In a further significant development, Zi has added Arabic-script
Ligature Modules to its predictive text input portfolio. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
TeliaSonera selected ClixSmart because of its modular architecture,
scalability and ease of integration with TeliaSonera's existing
infrastructure .
"TeliaSonera has selected ChangingWorlds to ensure that we offer our
customers the best possible user experience on SurfPort. For example, the Hungarian word "mostohagyerekeidhez," meaning "to your
step children" is actually composed of many smaller pieces and can be
deconstructed into "mostoha + gyerek + e + i + d + hez.

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The addition of
seven new languages increases Zi's language portfolio to a total to
48 different language databases. These new
Modules will work in unison with Zi's eZiText(R) and eZiTap(TM)
products, ensuring that the display of text adhere to conventional
ligature combination and presentation rules. All 48 different
language databases are now available in Zi's new version 7 of eZiText
and version 3 of eZiTap software. ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform Will Enable an Improved SurfPort
Mobile Internet Portal for TeliaSonera

DUBLIN, Ireland , ChangingWorlds today announced
that TeliaSonera have selected the ClixSmart(TM) Intelligent Portal Platform
to power its SurfPort(TM) unified Mobile Internet Portal which offers a wide
range of compelling content including: news, sports, email and the latest
music and entertainment content to ten and a half (10. Founded in 1997 by innovators in the
field of computational linguistics, Teragram alone offers the speed, accuracy
and global language support that customers and partners demand to retrieve and
organize growing volumes of digital information.

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"
The process of adding new languages to the predictive text input
repertoire is part of Zi's ongoing efforts to meet the growing needs
of handset manufactures as well as technology partners to address new
growth markets around the world with truly localized texting
interfaces. The functionality
provided by ChangingWorlds will allow a more dynamic portal that adapts
itself to the unique needs and interests of each individual ", stated Martin
Vendel, Senior Vice President at TeliaSonera, responsible for SurfPort
roll-out .
ClixSmart's advanced personalization technology automatically improves
portal usability by personalizing the wireless portal menu structure for each
individual user, enabling subscribers to quickly navigate to the services
most relevant to their needs. ClixSmart also includes an
intelligent device profiling and rendering solution, which ensures that
content is optimally presented on the user's device, enabling mobile
subscribers to derive optimum benefit from the latest advances in handset
technology.
Teragram's Linguistic Suite is primarily targeted at OEM customers who
embed the technology to enhance their own products, especially Internet or
enterprise search engines , and are looking for comprehensive language support,
superior performance and quick time-to-market .


The Samoyedic group is traditionally classified as a separate language family constituting the Uralic group together with Finno-Ugric languages.

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ChangingWorlds is the market-leading provider of Intelligent Mobile
Portal solutions.


Other targeted end users
include companies selling information retrieval or content management
software.com


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zicorp. These
forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements
regarding future events and the future financial performance of Zi
Corporation that involve risks and uncertainties. At the end of December 2004 TeliaSonera had 15,411,000 mobile
customers (51,359,000 incl.

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The most recent example of this was the announcement of
pre-integration of eZiText into the Series 60 platform.com

Note to Editors

Full list of languages supported: Arabic, Bulgarian (NEW),
Chinese (PRC, HK + Taiwan), Croatian, Czech , Danish, Dutch, English
(British, Asian + American), Estonian (NEW), Farsi (NEW), Finnish,
French (European + Canadian), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic (NEW), Italian , Japanese, Korean,
Latvian (NEW), Lithuanian (NEW), Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese
(European + Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish (European + Latin American) , Swedish, Tagalog,
Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (NEW), Vietnamese

About Zi Corporation

Zi Corporation (www. Schabes, "Closely related to Finnish, another language
Teragram supports , Hungarian is difficult to break down linguistically because
it is highly inflectional and agglutinative , where words combine with other
words, word parts and cases to form new words.

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"The admission of Hungary to the European Union last May has been a
significant demand catalyst for linguistic technologies that support the
Hungarian language," said Dr.

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These seven new languages, including
Bulgarian , Estonian, Farsi, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Urdu,
will be showcased at the Zi stand (E21 , Hall 2) at next week's 3GSM
Congress.
ClixSmart's intelligent profiling engine will provide TeliaSonera's
marketing team with an invaluable source of business intelligence information
and real time reports on portal usage.
ChangingWorlds has a proven track record in delivering carrier -grade
Intelligent Mobile Portal solutions and has deployed the award winning
ClixSmart platform with over twenty mobile network operators worldwide
including Vodafone Group, O2 and Mobilkom Group .

Teragram Adds Hungarian to its Linguistic Suite

, Teragram, the leading provider of
multilingual natural language processing technologies, today announced the
addition of Hungarian to its Linguistic Suite, bringing the total number of
supported global languages to more than 30, including all major Western and
Eastern European languages, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.com/info.

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ClixSmart 's multi-portal management capabilities will enable
TeliaSonera to roll out a centrally hosted portal , supporting multiple
languages, with distributed management across seven countries, including
Sweden , Finland, Denmark and Norway.
"ClixSmart is delighted to be working with TeliaSonera in launching its
new unified portal across seven countries", said Vincent Ryan, VP of Sales
and Marketing at ChangingWorlds. "Our customers have made it clear that they wish to partner with
one, highly-reliable vendor who can support the growing EU family of
languages, rather than a patchwork of vendors specializing in individual
languages.

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Although any such
projections and the factors influencing them will likely change,
except to the extent required by law, Zi Corporation will not
necessarily update the information . Outside the home
markets TeliaSonera has extensive interests in the growth markets in Russia,
Turkey and Eurasia.
About ChangingWorlds Ltd. Schabes. "That's what
our customers look to us to uniquely provide.

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Complex
languages such as Arabic and Farsi are extremely difficult to display
accurately on the small form factor of a mobile phone.

Zi, Decuma, eZiTap and eZiText are either trademarks or
registered trademarks of Zi Corporation."
"Hungarian is a highly complex language and it is vexingly difficult to
perform intelligent searches in the language without support from software
like Teragram's Linguistic Suite," continues Dr.

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Zi Corporation Extends the Global Reach of its Product Portfolio at 3GSM

More than 750 native speakers from 45
different countries were utilized in this latest major upgrade which
consumed more than 100,000 hours of development work. The company
provides device manufacturers and network operators with a full range
of intuitive and easy-to -use input solutions including: eZiText for
one-touch predictive text entry; eZiTap for intelligent multi-tap
entry, and Decuma for natural handwriting recognition. ClixSmart will also minimize
TeliaSonera 's time to market with new services and reduce its portal
management overheads by automating portal administration and providing a
unified process flow for TeliaSonera's content providers, which will enable
them to dynamically upload new services to the SurfPort portal with maximum
efficiency . The comprehensiveness and quality of our solution goes far
beyond traditional, paper dictionaries , and includes coverage of tens of
thousands of challenging new words, word contexts and meanings used with
increasing frequency on the Internet and in large enterprises."
According to Dr .e."

About Teragram
Teragram Corporation is the market leader in multilingual natural language
processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill relevant
information from vast amounts of data.

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Business Editors/Technology Editors

CANNES, France + CALGARY , Alberta----3GSM Congress

New Emerging Market Language Support Brings Predictive Text Input
to an Additional One Billion Plus Users

Zi Corporation (Nasdaq:ZICA) (TSX:ZIC), a leading provider of
intelligent interface solutions, announced today that it has expanded
the language coverage of its predictive texting solutions. "All living languages are in a constant state of flux,
with new words being created and existing words changing their
meanings all the time. A
publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the Nasdaq
National Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC). associated companies) and 2,017,000
internet customers (2,056,000 incl.
ChangingWorlds (R) and ClixSmart(TM) are trademarks of ChangingWorlds Ltd. Yves Schabes, co-founder and president of
Teragram.
Teragram serves customers across the publishing, pharmaceutical,
telecommunications and financial industries, including major news
organizations, leading online search portals, enterprise search, and many
Fortune 1000 companies.

Contact
Doug Russell or Chuck Kabat
Schwartz Communications
781-684-0770
teragram@schwartz-pr.

The members of the Finno -Ugric (or Uralic) language family are:
Baltic-Finnic group: Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Ludic/Ludian , Veps/Vepsian, Ingrian, Livonian and Votic/Votian;
Sami (Lapp): a group of dialects or closely related languages;
Mari (Cheremis);
Mordvin: Erzya and Moksha;
Permic/Permian group: Komi (Zyryan) , Permyak and Udmurt (Votyak);
Ugric group: Hungarian, Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul);
Samoyedic group: Nenets (Yurak), Enets (Yenisey Samoyed), Nganasan (Tavgy) and Selkup (Ostyak Samoyed).

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Now more
than one billion people in the fast growing mobile markets of Eastern
Europe, the Middle East and India will soon have the ability to send
and receive text messages in their native language.

As part of the launch of its expanded language portfolio, Zi has
completed a major upgrade on all the languages currently offered
through its predictive text input product range.5) million TeliaSonera
subscribers in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

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"Our wholly-owned
and developed Hungarian dictionary , which boasts more than five million
entries, took a team of Teragram software developers and lexicographers over
36 months to build.

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This release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements ,
which are subject to the safe harbour provisions of the United States
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

However, many linguists now use the terms 'Finno-Ugric' and 'Uralic' as synonyms , and this is is also the naming convention used in the ODP.

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Teragram Supports All Major Western and Eastern European Languages, Korean,
Japanese, Chinese and Arabic

CAMBRIDGE, Mass." In this example,
Teragram's software breaks the word down into its basic elements to derive
meaning: "mostoha" (meaning 'step' in English), gyerek ('child'), "gyereke"
(the possessive marker 'e' turns the meaning to 'child belonging to'),
"gyerekei" (the plural marker 'i' turns the meaning to 'children belonging
to'), "gyerekeid" (the second person marker 'd' turns the meaning to 'the
children belonging to you' i.
"The ability of Teragram's powerful linguistic engine to deconstruct words
into meaningful parts is critical to improving the precision of information
retrieval applications and search accuracy," says Dr. Schabes.

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"Zi is committed to not only introducing new languages but also
to enhancing the languages we currently support," said Glen Morgan,
senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Zi
Corporation.com) is a technology company that
delivers intelligent interface solutions to enhance the user
experience of wireless and consumer technologies. Zi supports its strategic partners
and customers from offices in Asia, Europe and North America. Readers are
cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions
and may differ materially from actual future events or results due to
a variety of factors, including: the growth trends in the input
technology industry; new product development; global economic
conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment;
financial and operating performance of Zi's OEM customers and
variations in their customer demand for products and services; the
ability to successfully acquire businesses and technologies and to
successfully integrate and operate these acquired businesses and
technologies; dependence on the introduction and market acceptance of
new product offerings and standards; rapid technological and market
change; matters affecting Zi Corporation's principal shareholder;
litigation involving patents, intellectual property, and other
matters; the ability to recruit and retain key personnel; Zi
Corporation's ability to manage financial risk; currency fluctuations
and other international factors; potential volatility in operating
results and other factors listed in Zi Corporation's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.

ChangingWorlds ' ClixSmart to Power TeliaSonera's SurfPort Unified Portal Service

"
About TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and
Baltic regions."
Hungarian's linguistic challenges are easily handled by Teragram's
dictionary as it breaks apart and parses meaning from highly agglutinative
words. Teragram helps customers
perform more efficient searches and better organize information in more than
30 languages, enabling them to reach new markets and make better decisions.

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An example is the pre-integration of its products into
all major operating systems and user interface solutions worldwide. Results from ChangingWorlds' customers show
that ClixSmart can stimulate increases of up to 40% in mobile data usage,
resulting in significant data ARPU growth.

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