Spyglass and QNX Team Up to Bring High Performance Embedded Web Technology
to Consumers in TVs, PDAs, Other Internet Appliances

Naperville, Ill. -- Thursday, April 4, 1996 -- Spyglass Inc. (NASDAQ: SPYG)
announced today a licensing agreement with QNX Software Systems Ltd. of
Ottawa, Canada, the largest supplier of highly scalable, realtime OS
software for x86 CPUs. This agreement will enable Spyglass embedded Web
technology to end up in various applications such as televisions, set-top
boxes, PDAs, and other Internet appliances running the QNX operating
system.

Marc Miller, Spyglass executive vice president of marketing, estimates that
several million copies of Spyglass client technology could be distributed
through the QNX agreement. Current estimates are that there are
approximately 15 million users of Web browser software. The potential for
embedded technology is even greater given the size of the market for
consumer electronics and business systems devices.

"Web browsers are limiting," Miller said, "but building Web capabilities
inside consumer devices is boundless. We adopted an embedded Web
technology strategy when we entered the Web marketplace nearly two years
ago, and the QNX deal validates our case, again."

"Given the enormous market for PC-based consumer devices, this pact
presents tremendous growth opportunities," said Miller. "Moreover, since
QNX can run on various Web platforms -- televisions, set-top boxes,
hand-held terminals, PDAs, and the like -- this represents exciting
distribution opportunities for our technology."

According to QNX Software Systems President Gordon Bell, Spyglass
embeddable technology was an ideal fit for QNX when the company looked to
bring strong, leading edge Web browser technology to its line of
high-performance realtime software. "We require efficient technology that
can be broken apart, easily embedded, and configured to suit devices such
as Web terminals with small-memory footprints right up to full-featured
Web browsers for our workstation OS users," Bell said.

Developers of embedded applications are always looking for ways to minimize
memory hardware costs for consumer devices by fitting the most software
into the smallest memory footprint. According to Dan Dodge, vice president
of Research and Development and co-founder of QNX Software Systems, "It's
hard to imagine a high-performance, multitasking OS with a complete
windowing system running in something as tiny as a PDA or set-top box, but
that's exactly what we've done and why Internet appliance manufactures are
coming to us."

QNX also offers tremendous scalability and modularity, Dodge said. "Rather
than force developers to work with one OS for the desktop, another OS for
networks, yet another OS for PDAs, and so on, we provide a single scalable
operating system that can fit various target platforms while maintaining
high performance connectivity," he said. "We're the only OS vendor to do
this. In combination with Spyglass' embeddable Web technology we will be
extending this paradigm to Web access."

Software developers have been eager for the Spyglass technology on QNX. "We
already have a number of VARs and consumer Web device OEMs lining up for
the port of this technology to our Photon microGUI," said Dodge. The
Photon microGUI is QNX's high-performance graphical user interface. It
recently won BYTE Magazine's 1995 Award of Distinction and will used to
provide the front end for Spyglass technology on QNX.

QNX Software Systems officials said the company would begin deploying the
Spyglass technology within the next three months.

About QNX Software Systems Ltd.

QNX Software Systems Ltd. (Kanata, ON, Canada) is the industry leader in
high-performance realtime operating system software for PCs. With hundreds
of thousands of installations in over 60 countries, the company has
established a firm base over the last 15 years in many application areas,
including industrial automation, point-of-sale, financial
online-transaction processing, medical instrumentation, and
communications. Some of the company's customers include such diverse
corporations as DuPont, GE, General Mills, Kodak, Sony, Motorola, and
Texaco. (Headquarters: 175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario,
Canada Tel: 613-591-0931; Fax: 613-591-3579; Press email inquiries:
jenp@qnx.com.)

About Spyglass Inc.

Spyglass Inc. (NASDAQ: SPYG) licenses World-Wide Web client and server
technologies. Spyglass technology is currently licensed by 56 customers,
including AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp., IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and
Triteal. Spyglass technology has been licensed for use in over 145
Internet-based products and services.

Spyglass' headquarters are located at 1240 E. Diehl Road, Naperville, Ill.
60563, with research and development facilities in Champaign, Ill., and
Cambridge, Mass. and regional sales offices in Cambridge, Mass.,
Morristown N.J. and San Ramon, Calif. (Headquarters: telephone --
708.505.1010, ext. 504; fax: 708.505.4944; press email inquiries: Randy
Pitzer; Web server, Internet: www.spyglass.com.
 
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