C Technologies subsidiary Anoto and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) to evaluate joint business oppo

C Technologies subsidiary Anoto and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) to evaluate joint business opportunities Panasonic/Matsushita and Anoto have entered an agreement for the purpose of evaluating joint business opportunities, utilizing the Anoto concept, for the Japanese market. "As the Corporate Systems Solutions Division (CSSD) of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, we are strongly interested in the Anoto functionality. We believe that the combination of the unique Anoto concept and Matsushita's solutions will enable us to develop a number of new services. In close cooperation with Anoto we will be working hard to create new business opportunities for Matsushita", says Masaki Akiyama, Member of the board, Director of CSSD, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. "The positive response from the Japanese market since we introduced the Anoto functionality last year, has certainly confirmed the great potential of our concept. We are therefore glad to add Panasonic/Matsushita to our group of Japanese partners, taking one more step towards a complete platform for the commercial launching of the Anoto concept", says Christer Fåhraeus, President, Anoto AB. "Vast experience of both consumer and corporate markets, makes Panasonic/Matsushita a very suitable partner for the development and implementation of both hardware and services for the Anoto concept", says Mats Bruzaeus, President, Anoto Nippon K.K. Anoto Nippon and Panasonic/Matsushita will during the coming few months jointly study the potential of a number of business ideas, utilizing the Anoto functionality. Emerging from this, the intention is to reach an agreement on further cooperation around the Anoto concept for the Japanese market. Anoto has since November last year signed agreements of collaboration with Cybird (mobile contents service provider), Daigo (calendars), Kokuyo (paper), Mitsubishi Pencil and Pilot (pens) - all well known brands and strong players on the Japanese and global markets. Anoto Nippon K.K. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anoto AB. For further information, please contact: Christer Yoshihito Kawai Charlotte Laveson Johansson Executive Manager Information Manager Chairman Anoto Nippon Matsushita Anoto AB K.K. Electric Industrial Co.Ltd +46 705 25 75 +81 3 5460 2865 +46 733 478 620 00 About Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic, National, Technics and Quasar brand names, is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronics products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated sales of US$61.45 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001. In addition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (6752), Matsushita's shares are listed on the Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, New York (NYSE: MC), Pacific, and Paris stock exchanges. For more information, visit the Matsushita web site at http://www.panasonic.co.jp/global/top.html. About Anoto: Anoto AB was founded in Lund, Sweden in late 1999 as a subsidiary of C Technologies AB, which is listed on the O-list of the OM Stockholm Exchange (Attract 40). The company currently has about 170 employees working in offices in Lund, Stockholm, Boston, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Ericsson holds a minority stake in Anoto and is also represented on the board. Anoto AB has created a de facto standard for digital paper. The concept is built around converting mankind's most common way of communicating, through pen and paper. Proprietary patterns, advanced image processing, Bluetooth wireless technology and an information infrastructure enables the Anoto functionality. Handwritten notes written on ordinary paper turn digital through the almost invisible Anoto pattern and can be sent to a computer, mobile phone, PDA, palm device or a fax. Even services such as paper-based digital orders can be handled only using pen and paper. www.anoto.com About C Technologies: C Technologies AB (publ) was founded in 1996 and is a Swedish well- established high-technology 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 digital pen, which has received several important international awards for best IT product. The C-pen scans, stores, processes and transmits text to a PC and Mac, either by infrared or by cable. The pen can also translate, send e-mail, SMS and facsimiles, and read bar codes. The C Technologies Group currently has about 250 employees and offices located in Lund, Stockholm, Atlanta, Boston and Tokyo. Major shareholders include company founder Christer Fåhraeus, State Street Bank, Ericsson Mobile Communications and SEB Fonder. C Technologies' share and is listed on the O-list of the OM Stockholm Exchange (Attract 40). The Group also comprises the subsidiaries Anoto AB and WeSpot AB. For more information visit our web site: www.ctechnologies.se or www.cpen.com ........................................................................ ........................... The Anoto concept intuitively connects paper and pen with the digital world. The concept consists of a pattern that can be printed on any paper, a digital pen with Anoto functionality that can read the pattern and record the pressure and movement of the pen, advanced image processing and the information structure pinpointing the pen's position on the pattern and which service the user has chosen to activate. Everything that is written on digital paper with Anoto functionality is stored in the digital pen and forwarded by a Bluetooth-enabled device (e.g. a mobile phone) to any computer or mobile phone in the world. The digital pen with Anoto functionality uses ordinary ink, but unlike the ordinary ballpoint pen, it also has a "scanning eye" consisting of an infrared camera and an advanced image-processing unit. The pen contains a Bluetooth radio transceiver. When writing with an Anoto pen on a paper printed with the Anoto pattern, digital snapshots of the pattern are taken continuously. Every snapshot contains enough information to make a calculation of the exact position of the pen. A digital trace is thus created by the movement of the pen. The digital pen with Anoto functionality does not only record what was written, but also how it was done. The application can therefore be used to verify and identify who wrote. The pen records simultaneously position, speed, pressure on the paper and the exact time. The information is transmitted, via a mobile phone or computer, as a graphical e-mail, fax, SMS or input to databases assisted by the infrastructure provided by the Anoto concept. The Anoto concept will be used in a number of services and applications. Later this year basic services enabling handwritten text to be transmitted directly as a graphical e-mail, fax or SMS will be launched. It will also be possible to save handwritten notes and Post-it® notes in the computer. Additionally the concept enables a large number of vertical applications, such as placing electronic orders, for example from an advertisement in a magazine, or filling in case records, order sheets and forms. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/08/09/20010809BIT00160/bit0002.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/08/09/20010809BIT00160/bit0002.pdf