Anoto Makes the Time Manager Daily Planner a Paper PDA.Business Editors/High Tech & Publishing Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000 Anoto Inc., the leader in the convergence of digital and handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. communications, announced plans to license its paper-based technology to Time Manager International (TMI TMI Too Much Information TMI Three Mile Island TMI TRMM Microwave Imager TMI Transactions on Medical Imaging TMI Texas Military Institute TMI Teen Missions International TMI Tauber Manufacturing Institute ) one of the world's largest produces of daily planners. Time Manager's new daily planners, printed with the licensable Anoto grid, can be used with an Anoto-powered ballpoint pen to synchronize See synchronization. between electronic and print organizers wirelessly turning a daily planner into a virtual paper PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . Notes written in a Time Manager calendar with an Anoto-powered pen (to be released by Ericsson in Q2 of 2001) are wirelessly transmitted--via Bluetooth--to a PC or PDA, updating an electronic calendar instantaneously in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. . Anoto's nearly invisible paper-based technology and Time Manager's paper diaries give the possibility to work and organize schedules and appointments away from a computer or electronic organizer See PDA. . "Anoto's partnership with TMI will allow anyone who uses a pen and a daily planner to update their electronic planning system See spreadsheet and financial planning system. instantaneously," says Christer Fahraeus, founder of Anoto. "Together, Anoto and Time Manager will allow you to digitize To convert an image or signal into digital code by scanning, tracing on a graphics tablet or using an analog to digital conversion device. 3D objects can be digitized by a device with a mechanical arm that is moved onto all the corners. your paper calendar from anywhere using just ink on paper." Time Manager is licensing Anoto's digital paper standard that consists of a black-ink grid that is near invisible to the eye and that can be printed on virtually any surface. TMI will print its customized content and design over the grid, without disturbing the traditional printing process. When updating your Time Manager planner, you can instantaneously digitize that content, transmit it to an electronic device and use it to update you electronic planner. Anoto intends to work closely in developing applications for this technology with electronics manufacturers, wireless network operators and paper publishers with the goal of developing a worldwide standard for the wireless transmission of paper-based communications. Anoto is striving to set a global standard in the digital rendering and wireless transmission of the handwritten word and is licensing its technology on a non-exclusive basis. In addition to its ePaper, Anoto is also licensing a pen-based technology that is composed of four basic components: ink (which enables you to see what you write), a camera (which takes pictures of the special pattern), an image processor (which pin points your position using the picture of the pattern) and a Bluetooth component (which transmits the information to the designated recipient via a cell phone or PC). Anoto is also building the world's largest web server to be used as a Gateway to sort the information sent from the pen. It will then establish what to do with the information and where to send it - thus working like your local post office, only much faster. About Anoto Anoto is for the first time enabling wireless-business to emerge directly from paper bringing the hand-written word into the electronic age. By combining the first specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. communications-friendly digital paper and the first Bluetooth-compatible ball-point pen ball-point pen n → bolígrafo ball-point pen n → penna a sfera , Anoto is providing the building blocks of a wireless system that gives carriers the opportunity to create untouched value-services and far greater use of airtime air·time n. 1. The time during which a radio or television station is broadcasting. Also called airspace. 2. The time at which a radio or television program is broadcast. . The company is building an infrastructure of partners in the traditional paper production business, and of wireless developers, wireless service providers and applications developers in order to create the first paper-based communications architecture. Anoto's global headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden. Anoto Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , is headquartered in Boston, MA. About Time Manager International Time Manager International was founded in Denmark in 1975 and is today one of the world's major learning consultancies with resource centres in 36 countries. TMI invented the Time Manager(R), the world's first results tool. The Time Manager(R) builds on a unique philosophy that has made planning simple and created results for millions of people around the world. But Time Manager International is more than just effective planning and implementation tools. TMI is one of the world's largest organisations in the field of training and consultancy. All TMI training programmes are focused on developing the human capital - and they are carefully tailored to target the needs of modern business. Each year, more than 250,000 people from all walks of life attend TMI seminars or take part in consulting processes. |
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