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Corex Technologies Launches the Next Generation of CardScan Product Line; CardScan Ivy Delivers Unsurpassed Scanning Accuracy and Introduces New Self-Updating Address Book.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002

Corex Technologies, developer of award-winning CardScan(R) contact management and business card scanning solutions, today announced the official release of CardScan Ivy Software (version 6.0.4). CardScan Executive, Corex's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , transforms ordinary, static business cards into usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years.  electronic information. Incorporating a vast number of new features and enhancements, CardScan Ivy empowers busy professionals with the most advanced business card scanning technology to date offering superior scanning accuracy, instant access to software upgrades, automatic address book updates and much, much more.

One exciting new feature of CardScan Ivy is the development of a self-updating address book, which makes the task of updating one's contact information even easier than before. The free AccuCard Service included in CardScan Ivy keeps track of all valuable contact information and sends updates directly to the CardScan user's desktop address book. Once activated activated

a state of being more than usually active. In biological systems this is usually brought about by chemical or electrical means. Commonly said of pharmaceutical and chemical products.
, the AccuCard Service brings the user's address book to life, and sends quarterly emails to contacts requesting they update their information or confirm that it is correct. As people respond, the address book becomes interactive, and prompts the CardScan user to either accept or reject the updates. This feature eliminates the hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936.

It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with
 of chasing down ex-colleagues and nomadic See nomadic computing.  friends for new contact information and allows CardScan Ivy users to update their address books with a simple click of the mouse.

"Now more than ever, professionals are realizing the importance of networking and the need to keep contacts current and up to date," said Jonathan Stern, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Corex Technologies. "The advanced functionality of CardScan Ivy positions it as the industry's most complete business card scanning solution available and provides users with an unmatched level of sophistication so·phis·ti·cate  
v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates

v.tr.
1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.

2.
 and ease of use. By integrating CardScan Ivy Software into our core technology, we now provide an extremely powerful suite of products that is the perfect complement to any professional's current contact management system."

The new features and enhancements to CardScan Ivy were developed along two key themes, the first being function-specific enhancements most requested by customers, the second being increased flexibility of features. In addition to the self-updating address book, CardScan Ivy includes the following unique features and enhancements:

Captures Business Card Images in Outlook: While CardScan has always synchronized syn·chro·nize  
v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

v.intr.
1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.

2. To operate in unison.

v.tr.
1.
 the text information from business cards with Microsoft(R) Outlook(R), now users can transfer the scanned images of the cards into Outlook as well.

Save to the Web: CardScan Ivy makes it faster and easier to save contact files to the web so users can have a guaranteed backup of their valuable contact database and access it from anywhere.

Software Updates Made Easy: When new software updates or upgrades become available, CardScan users will be sent notifications right to the desktop, and with a simple click of a button the update will happen automatically.

Better Synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.

(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization.

(3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP.
: Corex completely rebuilt the synchronization engine and included a handy "wizard" to help get users' information into various products of choice. CardScan offers the most comprehensive compatibility on the market, integrating with more than 30 popular contact managers, such as ACT!(TM), and most handheld PDAs such as Palm(TM) and Handspring hand·spring  
n.
A gymnastic feat in which the body is flipped completely forward or backward from an upright position, landing first on the hands and then on the feet.
(TM).

For more information regarding the technical specifications, additional features and benefits of CardScan Ivy, please visit www.cardscan.com/ivy.

Pricing and Availability

The suggested retail price for CardScan Ivy with the CardScan 600c color business card scanner is $299. The CardScan Ivy Software upgrade is free to existing V6 users and other upgrade pricing is available. CardScan Ivy is available now directly from Corex by visiting our website at www.cardscan.com or by calling 800-942-6739. Corex welcomes inquiries from dealers and/or distributors. For a list of our dealers, please visit our web site.

About Corex Technologies

Founded in 1992, Corex Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of contact management and business card scanning solutions designed to reduce corporate clutter and increase productivity. Corex's award-winning flagship product, CardScan Executive, is a state of the art business card scanner bundled with sophisticated contact management tools, including CardScan.Net and the AccuCard Service. Corex is 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.
 headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation).
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.
. For additional information, please visit the company's web site at www.cardscan.com.
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