Phoenix has licensed its FirstBIOS Notebook Pro to Matsushita Electric Industrial, best known for its Panasonic brand of consumer electronics, for use in its latest Let's Note CF-T1 and CF-R1 series notebook computers.

Phoenix and Softex today announce Softex TheftGuard - a new Core Managed Environment (cME) application that will run independent of the operating system in the highly secure host protected area (HPA) of the hard drive.

Phoenix today announced Phoenix SecureMark, a password protection product that uses handwritten input, for its Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) FirstBIOS Tablet PC Pro.

Phoenix plans to provide additional service and support for customers in the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a new expanded Taiwan facility on Tuesday, August 26, 2003.

Phoenix today announced a partnership to provide the industry's first anti-virus protection for PCs residing within the core system software in desktop and notebook systems.

Phoenix has introduced Phoenix FirstWare Assistant to enable users of Phoenix cME-enabled notebooks and tablet PCs to instantly view their personal information manager (PIM) data from Microsoft Outlook without launching the operating system.

Phoenix announced today that Hitachi has adopted Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) FirstBIOS Notebook Pro for its new notebook models.

Phoenix has entered into an expanded strategic relationship with Microsoft to bring radical simplicity to the PC and digital device industry.

Phoenix announced today that NEC Corporation has adopted Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) FirstBIOS Notebook Pro and Phoenix cME FirstBIOS Desktop for their new models to be introduced this summer.

Phoenix has extended its global agreement with Tyan Computer Corporation to supply its Core Managed Environment (cME) FirstBIOS for use in Tyan's desktop and workstation motherboards.

Phoenix has signed a licensing agreement with Fujitsu to implement the Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) FirstBIOS into Fujitsu's new summer models.