ActiveSymbols Names Vice President of Product Development; Andrew Shields Combines Technical Savvy, Creative Vision to Productize and Evangelize ActiveSymbols Visual Search Platform.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- ActiveSymbols Inc., a Logicalis Company, today announced the appointment of Andrew Shields as Vice President of Product Development. In his new role, Shields will be responsible for introducing new products and services on the ActiveSymbols platform. Part technologist, part evangelist, Shields is a master of the art and science of "product experiences" that turns passive observers into active participants.

"Andrew brings the perfect combination of technical skills and creative imagination to his role at ActiveSymbols," says ActiveSymbols President Jeff Reed. "Andrew's creative energy and diverse experience will help us realize the full potential of the new platform we are creating around our visual search engine capabilities."

"What I find really exciting about ActiveSymbols," Shields says, "is being able to take any existing physical world image -- a brand or an ad or a billboard -- and tie it to the digital experience."

Before joining ActiveSymbols, Shields held positions as Senior Director of Application Development at UIEvolution and Senior Manager, Wireless Product Development for ESPN.com and the Walt Disney Internet Group's network of sites -- which included ESPN, Disney, ABCnews and Movies.com.

Shield's portfolio includes real-time datacasting applications for Mobile ESPN and the delivery of innovative mobile product solutions such as The Chronicles of Narnia and Trivial Pursuit, the launch of live Internet NBA event broadcasts, the release of ESPNRadio.com's 24x7 online operations, and remote productions at the NFL Draft, the ESPY Awards, the Summer/Winter EXPN X-Games, the Super Bowl and the Bowl Championship Series.

About ActiveSymbols

ActiveSymbols, a Logicalis Company, is bringing mobile consumers together with brand marketers via a unique and patent-pending brand image database technology. ActiveSymbols(TM) Enterprise Server (patent-pending) is an enterprise-class scalable platform enabling image and object recognition (computer vision), text recognition (OCR), biometrics (facial recognition), and linear (1D) and 2D barcode decoding from everyday consumer devices such as camera phones and PDAs. We like to call it "visual searching in the palm of your hand." For more information on Seattle-based ActiveSymbols, please visit www.activesymbols.com.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is a global provider of high-performance technology solutions. Logicalis and its affiliated companies employ 1,000 people worldwide, including highly-trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as HP, IBM, Cisco and EMC.

Logicalis is a part of Logicalis Group, a division of Datatec Limited (JSE:DTC), a $3 billion business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group has annualized global revenues of approximately $750 million from operations in the U.S., UK, Germany and South America. In North America, Logicalis' annualized revenues amount to some $475 million with over 450 employees in the U.S. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.