Livescribe Unveils Paper Tablet Application
New Communication and Collaboration Tool Available for the Echo Smartpen
OAKLAND, Calif. – October 28, 2010 – Livescribe Inc. (www.livescribe.com) today unveiled Paper Tablet, a powerful new collaboration application for the Echo™ smartpen. Paper Tablet provides consumers with a new way to annotate presentations, documents or spreadsheets and collaborate online.
“Our customers are asking for new apps that improve communication and collaboration,” said Byron Connell, Livescribe chief marketing officer. “Paper Tablet is one of many tools we are making to improve productivity whether at work or in the classroom.”
When using Paper Tablet, consumers simply connect their Echo smartpen to a computer via the included micro-USB cable. The Echo smartpen then serves as a mouse and turns dot paper notebooks into a tablet computer.
- Annotation and simple drawings: Consumers can easily markup Microsoft PowerPoint™ slides, Word™ documents, Adobe® PDF files, as well as add handwritten notes, simple sketches and drawings to an e-mail or document.
- Signatures: People can sign digital documents without the hassle of scanning and faxing.
- Online collaboration: The app also works with popular web conferencing tools like Cisco WebEx®, Adobe® Connect™, and Skype plug-ins, making it easy to share whiteboards, enhance presentations and markup documents through real-time online collaboration.
Paper Tablet joins a host of applications designed to work with Livescribe smartpens. From productivity tools to foreign language dictionaries geared to learning and travel to games for pure entertainment, there are many ways to enhance the smartpen experience.
Product Availability
Starting today, Livescribe Paper Tablet can be purchased from the Livescribe Online store or at Best Buy for $14.99. The software is compatible with the Livescribe Echo smartpen firmware version 2.5 or higher.
International: Customers in Australia, Germany, Canada and European Union will be able to purchase Paper Tablet from the Livescribe Online store beginning Nov. 5.
About Echo™
The Livescribe Echo smartpen captures everything consumers hear and write and provides quick and accurate access to important information by simply tapping on the written notes either directly on paper or on a computer using the Livescribe Desktop software. Consumers can easily share an interactive copy of their synchronized notes and audio or “pencasts” with others as a .pencast file or via Livescribe's online community.
The Echo smartpen, dot paper and accessories are available now at Best Buy, Amazon.com, Apple, Staples, Target and online at Livescribe.com.
About Livescribe
Located in Oakland, Calif., Livescribe has developed a new low–cost mobile computing platform that enhances productivity, learning, communication and self expression for anyone that uses pen and paper. The Pulse smartpen revolutionizes the act of writing by recording and linking audio to handwriting, so users never miss a word. For more information, visit Livescribe at www.livescribe.com.
About Anoto Group AB
Anoto Group is the world leader in Digital Pen and Paper technology and inventor of the first commercialized Digital Pen and Paper system allowing quick and reliable transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media. Anoto works with a global network of partners focusing on user–friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storing of data for a variety of business segments including healthcare, banking and finance, transportation and logistics, government and education. The Anoto Group has around 100 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. Major shareholders are Norden Technology A/S, Robur and SEB. The Anoto share is traded on the Mid Cap of the OMX Nordic Exchanges in Stockholm under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anoto.com
Press Contact:
Jody Farrar
Livescribe
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Gretchen Bender
Bite Communications
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