LUND, Sweden, March 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Anoto (Other OTC:AOTOF) functionality provides the ability to create paper-based services using digital pen and paper. Tools for developing paper based services have been available to Anoto partners since the beginning of 2002 and several applications are available on the market. Examples of services are demonstrated by several companies at CeBIT.
Future digital pen platforms to be used with Anoto paper based services will be compatible with both mobile phones and PCs, such as the Nokia Digital Pen enabling Anoto functionality announced by Nokia today.
Another Anoto Pen Partner, Logitech demonstrates the Logitech io Personal Digital Pen, and presents examples of possible future usage models.
"Several Anoto partners are also demonstrating products and services enabling Anoto functionality at CeBIT, which are all available on the market. New digital pens will for example increase MMS usage and also further increase the supply of digital pens and therefore the opportunities for operators and service providers to create even larger numbers of services enabling Anoto functionality," said Christer Fahraeus, CEO Anoto AB.
Among exhibiting Anoto partners, Nokia demonstrates the newly announced Nokia Digital Pen and Logitech demonstrates their Logitech(R) io(TM) Personal Digital Pen that captures, organizes and retrieves handwritten notes, drawings and ideas. Sony Ericsson exhibits their Chatpen, the first digital pen enabling Anoto functionality that was launched. ReadSoft, the global market leader in automatic document capture demonstrates its product that supports direct input from digital pens enabling Anoto functionality. Intentia, one of the world's leading providers of collaborative enterprise solutions, demonstrates how Anoto functionality easily can be integrated to their ERP solution MOVEX. IFS develop and implements component-based business solutions, IFS Applications, which enable large and mid-size organizations worldwide to obtain greater returns.
At CeBIT IFS is demonstrating Anoto functionality for service request handling as part their Service & Facilities Management solution. bendit Innovative Interfaces, a company specializing in developing tailored-to-fit software solutions that integrate existing processes and optimize the workflow, demonstrates bendits digipen product that provides a generic, inexpensive and intuitive solution for SME to integrate the Anoto functionality into their workflow or into their products at fixed costs.
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Christer Fahraues Charlotte Laveson
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Anoto AB Anoto AB
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Anoto functionality unites the intuitiveness of pen and paper with the possibilities that digital communication offers. With Anoto functionality you can send whatever you write or draw directly to your personal computer, or send your handwritten notes or images directly from paper via a mobile phone to any personal computer, mobile phone or information bank in the world.
Anoto is the first to establish a high-technology concept based and adapted to how people actually work with pen and paper, meaning that you don't have to change your natural behavior or learn a new way of working. With Anoto functionality you can digitally store information written with pen and paper, offering possibilities for improved efficiency and increased usability within, for instance, personal communication, forms processing and everyday paper-based information.
Anoto Group AB
is a Swedish hi-tech company with unique solutions for transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media, scanning of printed text and intelligent camera surveillance. All products are based on digital camera technology and image processing in real time. The Anoto Group today has three brand names: Anoto(R)-- a comprehensive solution entailing paper, pen and server technologies, allowing us to connect all types of writing paper with the digital world, C-Pen(R) -- a scanning pen that can store, interpret and transfer printed text, and WeSpot(TM) -- a hardware and software platform for intelligent camera surveillance. The Anoto Group has around 220 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Stockholm, Boston, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Major shareholders are Ericsson, Capital Group and the founder Christer Fahraeus. The Anoto share is traded on the O-list, Attract 40 of Stockholmsborsen (Stockholm Stock Exchange) under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anotogroup.com
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