Released on = December 1, 2005, 12:27 pm

Press Release Author = Barrett Joyner / Mi-Co

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Mi-Co marks third anniversary of digital ink revolution with
new white paper that can be found on the Mi-Co web site at www.mi-corporation.com

Press Release Body = Research Triangle Park, NC. A new era in digital ink solutions
began in the fall of 2002 with three major events: the launch of the Tablet PC; the
launch of the Logitech io Digital Pen using Anoto functionality and forms automation
software that supports both major handwriting capture platforms by Mi-Co, the mobile
data capture company. To observe the 3rd anniversary of the these milestones, Mi-Co
has a number of activities underway including the publication of a white paper by
James Clary, CEO of Mi-Co, entitled Modern Mobile Data Capture Technology for
Government and Enterprise Applications.

"Mi-Co welcomed the launch of the Tablet PC and the Logitech Digital Pen," stated
Clary, "because this marked the point where the hardware and software for capturing
and recognizing handwritten data came into synchronization. Prior to November 2002,
many companies, including, Mi-Co, utilized Pocket PCs and other handwriting capture
platforms, including signature capture pads. Similar to the introduction of the IBM
Personal Computer, the new Tablet PCs and Digital Pens legitimized and accelerated
the use of handwritten input like nothing that had happened before. The result is
that industrial strength solutions are showing up in successful mobile forms
automation implementations for an increasing number of enterprise and government
applications."

Since the introduction of these robust hardware platforms by Microsoft, along with
their hardware partners, and Logitech, the world's leading supplier of computer
mice, Mi-Co, has focused on offering forms automation solutions for key business and
government markets such as healthcare with its sub-verticals; hospitals, home health
and clinical trials and government-mandated inspections at the Federal, state and
local levels. Mi-Co has signed major customers in these market segments including
Sutter Health in California, the Indian Health Service, National Cancer Institute;
United States Department of Agriculture, Internal Revenue Service and the City of
Boston.

These industry and government rollouts marked two specific ways to approach the
implementation of digital ink for paper forms automation; one focused on the Tablet
PC and the other on the digital pen and paper process. Mi-Co's single source code
software, Mi-Forms, enables both classes of these modern hardware platforms to
collect, recognize, validate and store both ink and recognized versions of
handwritten input data.

Bill Gates formally announced the Microsoft Tablet PC in November 2002 at the Jacob
Javits Center in New York City. Emphasizing the new role of the PC in the world of
digital ink, Gates stated, "One debate that took place in the early \'90s was whether
a device optimized to be held in the hands with ink as a fundamental data type,
would be a specialized device with its own applications or an [evolutionary]
extension of the PC itself. We felt very strongly, even going back to those days,
that it had to be an extension of the PC."

At the 2002 rollout of the Logitech Digital Pen, Sr. Logitech VP David Henry stated,
"While other attempts at pen input have started with the PC, with the goal of making
the PC more friendly, our point of departure is pen and paper with the goal of
making these elements more effective in the digital world." This event legitimatized
and made digital pen hardware generally available for the Anoto intellectual
property that had been around for several years prior to this time.

Handwriting has been around for a few thousand years. As pen and paper continues to
be a favorite way for humans to initially capture handwritten information, Tablet PC
and Digital Pen hardware platforms running Mi-Forms software will play an
increasingly important role in automating enterprise and government paper forms.

For information on downloading this white paper plus state-of-the-art handwritten
forms automation solutions for both the Tablet PC and the digital pen, please see
www.mi-corporation.com.
About Mi-Co
Mi-Co, the mobile data capture company, provides handwritten forms automation
software that enables an efficient and effective process for capturing, recognizing
and communicating handwritten information. Mi-Co's enterprise Mi-Forms Software
System provides flexible electronic forms design for data capture using digital ink.
In addition, Mi-Forms Software has proven capabilities for handwriting
interpretation and verification, data validation and the communication of
forms-based data for enterprise and government users. Mi-Forms supports Tablet PCs,
Digital Pens, Pocket PCs and signature capture devices. The company is headquartered
in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina with a Seattle, Washington customer
service center.






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