Handwritten notes through Speedy Tomato's mobile portal

Handwritten notes through Speedy Tomato's mobile portal Telia's portal company Speedy Tomato and Anoto have started to collaborate in order to integrate Anoto's services with Speedy Tomato's mobile portal. The Anoto concept will enable you to send hand-written notes directly from paper as a graphical e-mail, fax or as a SMS. The notes can be typed on ordinary paper and will be transmitted via Speedy Tomato's portal to computers, palm devices, mobile phones and fax machines. "Using pen and paper is the natural way of communicating. Anoto's services inspire, support and simplifies peoples' everyday life, which fit's Speedy Tomato's image perfectly," said Johan Hall, acting President of Speedy Tomato. The business model is based on a revenue sharing, where Anoto provides the infrastructure and a number of selected services. Speedy Tomato is currently testing and evaluating the Anoto solution and intends to launch the first services during spring 2002. "Speedy Tomato has a great understanding of consumers' need of simple, user-friendly solutions and also has the technical knowledge needed to fulfill the increasing needs of today's mobile Internet market. The company's growing presence in Europe will give Anoto access to this pan European market," said Christer Fåhraeus, President at Anoto. Speedy Tomato will join Anoto's partnership program, a forum where the company's partners can exchange experiences. The forum's goal is to ultimately enhance Anoto's digital paper standard. Anoto's concept comprised of three different components: ordinary paper equipped with the almost invisible Anoto grid, digital pens with Bluetooth modules, and services provided through a mobile carrier. Speedy Tomato´s user-friendly, personal services inspire and support people in their everyday life. Some examples of services are personal calendars, address book, e-mail to your mobile phone, news, finance, sport, and games, chat communities, m-commerce, positioning services etc. For more information, please visit www.speedytomato.com or contact: Anne Liljeroth, Head of PR, Speedy Tomato AB, phone +46 706 82 71 51 Speedy Tomato AB is a mobile portal that wants to inspire and support people in their daily lives and in their social lives. Speedy Tomato AB was founded in September 2000 and is a fully owned subsidiary to Telia AB. The company has around 70 employees in Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy and Finland. 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 170 employees working in offices in Lund, Stockholm, Boston, and Tokyo. 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 enable Anoto's system. Hand-written notes written on ordinary paper turn digital through the almost invisible Anoto pattern and can be sent directly through a computer, mobile phone, PDA, palm device or a fax. Even services such as paper- based digital orders can be handled with only pen and paper. www.anoto.com C Technologies AB (publ) was founded in 1996 and is a young Swedish 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 reading 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. The pen can also translate, send e-mail, SMS and facsimiles as well as reading barcodes. 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 is listed on the O-list of the OM Stockholm Exchange (Attract 40). The Group also comprises the subsidiaries Anoto AB and WeSpot AB. www.ctechnologies.se or 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/2001/03/20/20010320BIT00830/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/20/20010320BIT00830/bit0002.pdf