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Circle Twelve Inc Announces Exclusive License to Multi-Touch, Multi-User DiamondTouch(TM) Technology.


BOSTON -- Circle Twelve Inc announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社   Research Labs, giving Circle Twelve rights to tabletop computing intellectual property, including exclusive world-wide rights to manufacture and sell the multi-touch, multi-user DiamondTouch table. While the license agreement has been in effect since the beginning of this year when it took over all sales and operations for the DiamondTouch product line, Circle Twelve made the formal announcement one week before the start of the InfoComm 08 Exposition in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  where potential customers are invited to try out DiamondTouch first hand.

DiamondTouch is the world's first multi-user touch technology, allowing people to interact simultaneously on a tabletop computer touch screen while the system knows who is who. This makes DiamondTouch an enabling technology for supporting small group collaboration See collaborative software. , including CAD design review, graphic design layout, GIS analysis and planning, gaming, project management, and education. The tabletop form-factor allows multiple users to look at each other eye to eye, and because the DiamondTouch is multi-user, everyone can interact at the same time - no need to take turns.

"I am excited to be able to bring the DiamondTouch table out of the lab incubator so that we can invest in marketing and new product development," commented Adam Bogue, President of Circle Twelve. Bogue added, "With products that we have available for sale today and others planned for the near future, Circle Twelve is well positioned to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on`   

v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>.
 the growing demand in tabletop computing."

As part of the license agreement, Circle Twelve will support the installed base of DiamondTouch products which have been sold to customers throughout the US and in over 20 countries around the world.

About Circle Twelve, Inc.: Circle Twelve Inc is a privately-held company founded in 2008 and focused on helping people work together. Circle Twelve makes and sells multi-user computer hardware and software products to support small group collaboration. Additional information is available on www.circletwelve.com. DiamondTouch is a trademark of Circle Twelve Inc.

About the DiamondTouch Table: Invented at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in 2001, DiamondTouch is a patented touch technology that has the unique capability of identifying who is touch where. The DiamondTouch product includes an open API Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using SOAP, Javascript any other web technology.  and SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK.

SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit").
 so that customers are free to develop their own multi-touch, multi-user application software, and it includes a mouse emulator Hardware or software for the disabled that simulates mouse movement and/or clicking. Various devices are available that let head and body movement perform operations. See dwell software and assistive technology.  with on-screen keyboard An on-screen keyboard, or virtual keyboard, is a graphical computer keyboard that enables people with physical disabilities to use a computer. If a person is not able to push the keys on an ordinary keyboard, he or she can push the keys on a virtual keyboard (picture) shown  so that customers can operate any PC software on DiamondTouch right out of the box. Additional information is available at www.circletwelve.com/products/diamondtouch.
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