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Chineseroots.com To Provide Bijitec's Innovative Handwriting Technology To Its Growing User Base.


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SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001

Cybersia Inc., a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 whose major subsidiary, Chineseroots.com Inc. (http://www.chineseroots.com), is positioned to be the leading comprehensive Chinese genealogy genealogy (jē'nēŏl`əjē, –ăl`–, jĕ–), the study of family lineage. Genealogies have existed since ancient times. , family and community services provider, today announced that it has signed a technology agreement with Bijitec Pte Ltd PTE LTD Private Limited ., a Singapore-based provider of innovative handwriting technologies, which allows the company to incorporate Bijitec's multi-language handwriting solution into its Web site properties.

Bijitec's handwriting technology allows one to handwrite hand·write  
tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes
To write by hand.



[Back-formation from handwritten.]

Verb 1.
 and process documents without the use of any intermediate handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition).  process or device. With the integration of Bijitec's innovative solution, Chineseroots.com users will be able to handwrite their messages in any language and post it directly onto the message board by using handwriting input devices such as electronic writing tablets or mouse. This solution will provide more convenience to users who write ideogram id·e·o·gram  
n.
1. A character or symbol representing an idea or a thing without expressing the pronunciation of a particular word or words for it, as in the traffic sign commonly used for "no parking" or "parking prohibited.
 characters, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, where typing on the keyboard can be rather difficult and tedious.

By expanding the scope of its services with Bijitec's handwriting solutions, Cybersia will be able to increase affinity with its Chineseroots.com and Chinesekin.com Web sites. Additionally, Bijitec's solution provides the scalability necessary to accommodate the increasing traffic on the Chineseroots.com and Chinesekin.com Web sites.

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, president and chief executive officer of Cybersia, stated, "Our partnership with Bijitec enables us to provide our users with Bijitec's unique handwriting technology, which is very much in line with our continuing quest to bring interesting and useful content and services to engage our multi-cultural community. By delivering quality services and products to our user base, we are continually building on our commitment to create value for the company and its owners."

Simpson added, "At Cybersia, we will continue to offer our community of users the latest in genealogical information, community building tools and communication services, which, we believe, will ultimately translate into a growing revenue and profit stream for the company."

About Bijitec Pte Ltd

Bijitec Pte Ltd is positioning itself as the pioneer in setting cross-platform handwriting messaging standards and leading provider of mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings  software. The company was founded to develop and market Biji Handwriting technology and mobile application software for the mobile computing and Internet industries. Biji Technology is a patent-pending handwriting software technology that yields shorter processing time for handwriting a message than handwriting recognition, and requires less storage space than image files through achieving a high compression ratio compression ratio

Degree to which the fuel mixture in an internal-combustion engine is compressed before ignition. It is defined as the volume of the combustion chamber with the piston farthest out divided by the volume with the piston in the full-compression position (
. Bijitec's line of products includes BijiCodec, the leading handwriting software for the mobile phone Short Message System (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.
) application, and BijiWriter, BijiEdit Control, Biji Vertical Applications, as well as Mobile Software. For more information about Bijitec, visit its Web site at http://www.bijitec.com.

About Cybersia Inc.

Cybersia Inc. has positioned itself to become the leading online network for families of Chinese ancestry. The company's Web site properties, Chineseroots.com (in English and Chinese) and Chinesekin.com, offer comprehensive resources and interactive tools that connect Chinese families. Chineseroots.com's exclusive alliance with Shanghai Library Shanghai Library is the second largest library in China after the National Library of China in Beijing. It is located in Shanghai, China. Early histroy
The first library in Shanghai was built in 1847. The name of the library was the Library of the Xu Jiahui Jesuit mission.
, known to possess the world's largest collection of Chinese ancestry records, provides access to 90,000 catalogued volumes of family details dating back to the 10th century. Other industry partnerships include various world-renowned genealogy organizations, such as the Taiwan Surnames Association and the Shanxi Genealogy Centre in China. For more information, visit http://www.chineseroots.com.
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