Colligo Corp. Announces the Release of Powerful Digital Educational Tools.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

BELLINGHAM, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2001

Colligo Corp., a digital content innovator, announces the release of two CD-ROM's under the brand name ULTIMATeBOOK.

These titles are the latest in a series of EduTech releases by Colligo Corp., that address the burgeoning need for powerful digital content for education.

The Memorial War Book, a pictorial representation of the CIVIL WAR, is a digital "reprint" of the same title by Major George F. Williams (c.1894).

This CD-ROM contains some 2,000 images, photographs by Mathew B. Brady, sounds from the Civil War era, period maps with easy to use "zoom" features, many excellent authentic period renditions of battle scenes and personal narratives the combatants whom served in the Civil War.

Images of Stealth, a multi-media title, produced under license from Lockheed Martin, includes the story of the famed "Skunk Works," video, charts and hundreds of high quality color stealth-aircraft photographs by Lockheed Martin's award winning photographers.

Colligo's unique user-friendly format, - the ULTIMATeBOOK, a great improvement over the ubiquitous eBOOK, has been called "PowerPoint on Steroids." Titles include search engines, video, audio and hotlinks, slide show viewing of images and printing/exporting of the entire work in very high-resolution color from thumbnail to billboard size.

Colligo's "ULTIMATeBOOK" titles run on Windows(R) platforms and on educational networks with multi-user capability. Colligo is building a digital library to address the need for quality digital content for the education market.

Of the 91,000 K-12 schools in the U.S., 95% prepare lesson plans and criteria over their Local Area Networks. (U.S. Department of Education) Thus, as Colligo develops more educational titles, and school libraries/information systems become more digitally based, the need for quality, networkable digital content expands, Colligo is determined to being the leader in digital content.

As special education market is addressed with ULTIMATeBOOK's magnification option, and audio content, it will doubtless have application in special education areas; notably, sight and hearing impaired. Colligo calls out for curriculum developers to assist the company to maximize the potential in this important field.

Other titles currently available from Colligo are Mt. Baker, its Trails and Legends, a multimedia history of its namesake in Washington State, and Pioneers in Brass, biographies of turn-of-the-century Concert Bands.

All titles from Colligo have received high praise from reviewers.

For review copy or other information, see www.ultimatebook.com or e-mail [e-mail].