C Technologies Subsidiary Anoto Increases Broad Coverage On the Paper Market by Adding Two Global Paper Partners, Tjiwi Kimia and Nippecraft.Business Editors STOCKHOLM Stockholm (stŏk`hôlm'), city (1995 pop. 692,954), capital of Sweden and of Stockholm co., E Sweden, situated where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. , Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001 Anoto Anoto Group AB (former C Technologies) (OMX: ANOT) is a Swedish technology company developing and licensing a product line of digital pens and a product suite to manage information procurement utilizing these (marketed as Anoto). has reached an agreement with Tjiwi Kimia and Nippecraft, both of which are part of Asia Pulp pulp: see paper. and Paper (APP See application. app - application program ), one of the world's largest producers of paper. The companies are located in Asia but have extensive global distribution nets. The first digital products with Anoto functionality will be introduced at the end of 2001/beginning of 2002. "Asia Pulp and Paper is one of the largest paper producing companies in the world and a very important player in view of its global presence on the market. Anoto has already established cooperation with Kokuyo in Japan, Esselte in Europe and Mead mead (mēd), wine made of fermented honey and water, sometimes flavored with spices. It is highly intoxicating. Mead was known in classical Greece and Rome and was the favorite drink of the tribes of N and W Europe. in the U.S. When Tjiwi Kimia and Nippecraft are now being added to our partners, we have achieved broad coverage within the paper sector," says Christer Fahraeus, President of Anoto AB. - Pt. Pabrik Kertas Tjiwi Kimia Tbk, which is part of APP, is a global company based in Indonesia. Tjiwi Kimia is a large manufacturer of notepads, exporting to 50 countries. The company is represented in 20 countries - most of which are Asian, including China where the company has manufacturing units, and Japan. Tjiwi Kimia holds 70 percent of the Indonesian market, has a strong foothold in the Middle East and Australia, and significant market shares in both Europe and the U.S. Tjiwi Kimia is listed on the Jakarta and Surabaya Stock Exchanges since 1990. - Nippecraft Ltd, is a diary and calendar company based in Singapore with strong distribution in Great Britain, Australia, USA and the Asian regions. The company was founded in 1977 and has been a public company since 1994. The company sells 12 million diaries and calendars under the brand names "Collins", "Debden" and others. As one of the branded diary leaders in our main markets, Nippecraft has 60 percent of the market share in Australia and 40 percent in Great Britain as well as 50 percent corporate diary market share in Singapore. - Anoto's concept is enabled by three components: ordinary paper made digital with the almost invisible Anoto pattern, digital pens with Bluetooth communication and services delivered to the market by a mobile operator. As part of the agreement, partners will be joining the Anoto Program - a forum where Anoto partners can exchange experience. The aim is to mutually strengthen the global 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. About Anoto: 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 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 enables 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 About C Technologies AB: 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 (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. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. 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