Today, Zi Corporation announced a licensing agreement with Nintendo. Under terms of this agreement, Nintendo DS developers can employ Zi's Decuma technology, which is a software handwriting interpreter. Decuma Alphabetic handwriting recognition software works with Chinese, Japanese and Roman characters.

"As the leading provider of handheld video game systems in the world, Nintendo has a reputation for adopting innovative technologies that improve the user's experience with its products," said Milos Djokovic, chief technical officer and chief operating officer, Zi Corporation. "With Decuma, Nintendo DS users will experience natural handwriting recognition previously only available to PDA and smartphone users. Zi continues to bring its multi-modal input products to leading mobile phones, gaming platforms and smartphones across the globe."