C Technologies' subsidiary, Anoto, confirms global de facto standard for digital paper with new contracts

C Technologies' subsidiary, Anoto, confirms global de facto standard for digital paper with new contracts Anoto announces closer cooperation with Kokuyo (with head office in Japan), who, together with Mead (with head office in USA), and Esselte (with head office in Europe) dominate the world market for office equipment and paper products. Anoto is also initiating cooperation with the Japanese Pilot Corporation. Pilot, as one of the leading players in the pen industry, will be manufacturing and distributing pens based on TM Anoto technology. Well-known trademarks such as 3M, At-A-Glance, Charles Letts, Ericsson Mobile Communications, Esselte, Filofax, Franklin Covey, Mead, Montblanc, TMI (Time Manager International) and Time/system International, signalled their ambition to contribute in the creation of a paper-based Internet in November. Their intention is to manufacture and distribute pen and paper TM products based on the Anoto technology on a global basis, and thereby establish a global standard for digital paper. "The partnerships initiated at the Comdex exhibition in Las Vegas in November, have since been intensified through continued close cooperation. With Kokuyo and Pilot we are now well established in the important Japanese market. Together with Anoto, our partners confirm and consolidate the digital paper standard on a global basis," Christer Fåhraeus, President Anoto AB, says. Anoto has developed a technology that links the paper-based communication with the latest in information technology, thus integrating handwriting and digital communication. TM With a pen and paper, supporting Anoto functionality, it is now possible to send anything written or drawn to your own computer, or, via the Internet, to any computer, mobile telephone, or database in the world. Typical areas of use are graphic e-mail messages, fax and SMS, and notes in notepads and paper diaries. The pen's built-in technology registers its position and movement over the paper, on which an almost invisible pattern has been printed. It is this TM pattern, together with the digital pen based on the Anoto technology, that enables direct storage or transfer - via Bluetooth (the new industry standard for cordless computer links) - of hand-written information to optional digital storage media, an e-mail receiver, mobile telephone, or TM fax machine. Anoto technology provides the power of digital communication to paper and pen. Towards the end of 2001 a number of different products, supporting TM Anoto functionality, will be available on the market. Anoto will be represented at the Paperworld Fair in Frankfurt, 27-30 January, in the company's partner's exhibition stands. Also, Örjan Johansson, Chairman of the Board of Anoto AB, will give a presentation on January 29 at 02.00 pm, in the "Konferenzraum Illusion 1-3, Kongresszentrum, Level 3C." For further information, please contact: Christer Fåhraeus Örjan Johansson Birgitta Plyhm President Chairman of the Board Information Director Anoto AB Anoto AB C Technologies AB +46 733 45 12 05 +46 705 60 89 53 +46 702 07 36 32 Pictures are available. Anoto AB was founded in Lund, Sweden in late 1999 as a subsidiary of C Technologies AB, which is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (O-List, Attract 40). The company currently has about one hundred employees working in offices in Lund, Stockholm, Boston, and Tokyo. Ericsson Mobile Communications holds an important minority stake in the company and is also represented on the board. Anoto focuses on research, development, and TM marketing for the various aspects of Anoto technology and in creating TM a de facto standard for digital paper. Anoto technology comprises a combination of a so-called intelligent pen, proprietary patterns, advanced image processing, Bluetooth wireless technology, and an information infrastructure. Handwritten notes can be stored, graphic e-mails sent, and electronic orders placed using nothing other than pen and paper. Users can communicate with anyone who has a cell-phone, PC, hand-held computer, or PDA. www.anoto.com C Technologies AB (publ) is a young, Swedish IT-company with cutting-edge expertise within the fields of digital camera technology, image processing, and digital pens. The Company's primary product is the C-Pen scanning pen, which has received several important international awards for best IT product. The C-Pen scans, stores, processes, and wirelessly transmits text to a PC using IR or Bluetooth. The pen can also translate, send e-mail, SMS, and facsimiles, and read barcodes. Today, the C Technologies Group with its head office in Lund, Sweden, employs about 200 people. Major shareholders include Company founder Christer Fåhraeus, State Street Bank, Ericsson Mobile Communications and SEB Fonder. C Technologies is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (O-list, Attract 40). www.ctechnologies.se; www.cpen.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/01/26/20010126BIT00180/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/01/26/20010126BIT00180/bit0002.pdf