C Technologies' Subsidiary Anoto and Speedy Tomato Integrate Paper-Based Services in Mobile Portal.Business Editors STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001 Telia's portal company Speedy Tomato and Anoto have started to collaborate in order to integrate Anoto's services with Speedy Tomato's mobile portal. The Anoto concept will enable you to send hand-written notes directly from paper as a graphical e-mail, fax or as a SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. . The notes can be written on ordinary paper and will be transmitted via Speedy Tomato's portal to a computer, palm device, mobile phone or fax machine. "Using pen and paper is the natural way of communicating. Anoto's services inspire, support and simplify peoples' every-day life, which is something that fit's Speedy Tomato's image perfectly," said Johan Hall, appointed CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Speedy Tomato. The business model is based on a revenue sharing revenue sharing Funding arrangement in which one government unit grants a portion of its tax income to another government unit. For example, provinces or states may share revenue with local governments, or national governments may share revenue with provinces or states. , where Anoto provides the infrastructure and a number of selected services. Speedy Tomato is currently testing and evaluating the Anoto solution and intends to launch the first services during spring 2002. "Speedy Tomato has a great understanding of consumers' need of simple, user-friendly solutions and has the technical knowledge needed to supply the increasing needs of today's mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. market. The company's growing presence in Europe will give Anoto access to this pan European market," said Christer Fahraeus, President at Anoto. Speedy Tomato will join Anoto's partnership program, a forum where the company's partners can exchange experiences. The forum's goal is to ultimately enhance Anoto's digital paper standard. Anoto's concept comprised of three different components: ordinary paper equipped with the almost invisible Anoto grid, digital pens with Bluetooth modules, and services provided through a mobile carrier. Speedy Tomatoes user-friendly, personal services personal services n. in contract law, the talents of a person which are unusual, special or unique and cannot be performed exactly the same by another. These can include the talents of an artist, an actor, a writer, or professional services. inspire and support people in their everyday life. Some examples of services are personal calendars, address book, e-mail to your mobile phone, news, finance, sport, and games, chat communities, m-commerce, positioning services etc. For more information, please visit: www.anoto.se and www.speedytomato.com or contact: Speedy Tomato AB is a mobile portal that wants to inspire and support people in their daily lives and in their social lives. Speedy Tomato AB was founded in September 2000 and is a fully owned subsidiary to Telia AB. The company has around 70 employees in Sweden, Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , Denmark, Italy and Finland. Anoto AB was founded in Lund, Sweden in late 1999 as a subsidiary of C Technologies AB, which is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange The Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863 [1] it is the primary securities exchange of the Nordic Countries. O-list (Attract 40). The company currently has about 170 employees working in offices in Lund, Stockholm, Boston, and Tokyo. Ericsson holds a minority stake in Anoto and is also represented on the board. Anoto AB has created a de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for digital paper. The concept is built around converting mankind's most common way of communicating, through pen and paper. Proprietary patterns, advanced image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished , Bluetooth wireless technology and an information infrastructure enable Anoto's system. Hand-written notes written on ordinary paper turn digital through the almost invisible Anoto pattern and can be sent directly through a computer, mobile phone, 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). , palm device or a fax. Even services such as paper- based digital orders can be handled with only pen and paper. www.anoto.com C Technologies AB (publ) was founded in 1996 and is a young Swedish high-technology company with cutting-edge expertise within the fields of digital camera technology, image processing and digital pens. The Company's primary product is the C-Pen reading pen, which has received several important international awards for best IT product. The C-Pen scans, stores, processes and wirelessly transmits text to a PC. The pen can also translate, send e-mail, SMS and facsimiles as well as reading barcodes. The C Technologies Group currently has about 250 employees and offices located in Lund, Stockholm, Atlanta, Boston and Tokyo. Major shareholders include company founder Christer Fahraeus, State Street Bank, Ericsson Mobile Communications and SEB Noun 1. SEB - a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare staphylococcal enterotoxin B Fonder. C Technologies' share is listed on the O-list of the OM Stockholm Exchange (Attract 40). The Group also comprises the subsidiaries Anoto AB and WeSpot AB. www.ctechnologies.se or www.cpen.com |
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