Corex's CardScan wins Mobile Insights 1999 Mobility Award for Peripherals.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999--Corex Technologies Corporation today announced that CardScan, its award-winning business card management solution, won the Mobile Insights 1999 Mobility Award for Peripherals. Mobile Insights is one of the premier professional services companies focusing on the mobile computing and data communications market.

"Receiving the Mobility Award validates CardScan as a must-have productivity tool for mobile professionals," said Julie Jones, vice president of sales and marketing for Corex, who attended the conference and accepted the award on behalf of the company. "CardScan provides a fast, reliable way to accurately input important contact information into PCs and PDAs, such as Palm organizers and Windows CE devices, without typing. CardScan offers broad connectivity to all mobile devices, enabling mobile professionals to access their important contact information at their desks or on the road."

More than 30 awards were presented at last week's fifth annual Mobile Insights MI99 Conference, held in Palm Springs, Calif. CardScan emerged victorious from a well-rounded and highly respectable group of competitors. Other winners included the IBM ThinkPad, the Palm III from Palm Computing, Hewlett-Packard's Jornada 820 and the Sony VAIO.

"CardScan is an excellent peripheral and a benefit to any mobile professional," said Theresa Nozick, industry analyst, editorial director for Mobile Insights, and one of the 47 Mobility Awards judges. "Choosing a winner proved a difficult task this year in every category. This was particularly true in the peripherals category, where each product was very different from the other. Products like CardScan enable mobile professionals to take important data, including vital contact information, on the road for access anytime, anywhere."

CardScan Executive provides the fastest and most accurate way to get business card information into PCs, PDAs, and popular desktop personal information managers such as the PalmPilot, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Symantec ACT! and GoldMine. CardScan enables mobile professionals to quickly and accurately input--and take on the road--vital contact information. Users increase productivity, save time, get organized and eliminate clutter, all without the drudgery of manual data entry.

Corex Technologies Corporation, based in Cambridge, Mass., focuses exclusively on developing and marketing industry-leading business card scanning software and hardware products that increase personal and corporate productivity. Founded in 1993, the privately held, venture-backed company develops the award-winning CardScan family of products. The complete line of CardScan products is available directly from Corex Technologies and at more than 3,000 authorized resellers, PC retailers, office superstores and mail order outlets, including CompUSA, Circuit City, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, Staples, OfficeMax, Office Depot, MicroWarehouse, CDW, Ingram Micro and Tech Data.

CardScan is a registered trademark of Corex Technologies Corporation. All other company names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.