From: Joanna Chan <joanna@sensiva.com>
Subject: Sensiva, Inc. and Wacom Technology Corp. Partner to offer Internet Navigation Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:21:00
To: letters@lwn.net


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Sensiva, Inc. and Wacom Technology Corp. Partner to Offer New Internet
Navigation Technology

Mountain View, California, August 29, 2000 - Leading manufacturer of computer
graphic tablets and electronic pens, Wacom Technology Corp., is partnering
with Sensiva, Inc. to offer its clients interactive symbol recognition
functionality in all their tablet products. Together, people will not
only be allowed to copy and paste images directly into the computer but
to also navigate much faster through Internet and software applications
using simple symbols.

Sensiva will be bundled in all three Wacom product lines: Intuos intelligent
graphics tablet system; Graphire pressure-sensitive tablet with the cordless
mouse and pen; and PL400 LCD pen tablet system. Sensiva officials said
the new integrated products expects to be distributed in North and South
America starting this month, offered in four languages: English, Spanish,
Brazilian/Portuguese and French. 

"Sensiva demonstrates the potential for great productivity enhancements
for graphics designers. Emergence of this new symbol recognition technology
with customizable capabilities is unique, easy to learn, and further refines
the state of the art for graphics tablets," said Joe Deal, president and
CEO of Wacom Technology Corp.

"Dealing with the world's leading provider of graphic tablets is a big
step forward for Sensiva in showing a strong commitment to designing Internet
navigation technologies", said David Dupouy, CEO of Sensiva, Inc. "This
will expand a user's power and control through Sensiva's simple gesture
recognition interface, unified applications and extendable functionality".

Sensiva instantly simplifies and unifies all software applications. With
Sensiva, users no longer need to learn different ways to do the same actions
in different applications. Users no longer need to remember and use many
hotkeys or menus across inconsistent software applications; they just
draw the same symbols to execute the same actions, like "Z" to Zoom in
all graphic software programs. It dramatically boosts productivity and
is the ideal companion of graphic tablets.

The decision to launch this series of products also puts Wacom, to a certain
extent, ahead of their competition. The new product bundles will give
users access to an optimized version of Sensiva's technology, including
its popular Plug-In Library. 

Sensiva clients include other world-class leaders such as Casio, Synaptics
and are already used in ten languages in over 100 countries around the
world. Designed like no others in the world, Sensiva has brought extraordinary
versatility to ordinary tasks. Using symbols has added new levels of comfort
and control to these Company's' products. It's a unified way to navigate
applications and browse the Internet. It has set a new standard for using
symbols to control all of a user's applications and to navigate the Internet
with the capability to customize your own symbols with speed and ease.

A basic version of Sensiva is available today for free at www.sensiva.com.
Sensiva works with virtually all software applications running on Microsoftâ
Windowsâ 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Apple Macintosh
and Linux operating systems. Sensiva users can also download professionally
designed Sensiva plug-ins that add enhanced control for various applications,
and get valuable information and several services for free. For more
information, please visit www.sensiva.com or call us at +1 (650) 938-6055.


About Sensiva, Inc.

Sensiva, Inc. is a leading provider of technologies that unifies and
simplifies Internet and software applications. Our vision - simpler
interface, unified applications, and extendable functionality - reflects
our commitment to provide the best solutions for enhancing the speed and
the pleasure of controlling applications and electronic devices. Sensiva,
Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information,
please visit www.sensiva.com. 


About Wacom Technology Corp.

Wacom is best known for having introduced the world's first cordless,
batteryless, pressure-sensitive pen in America in 1989. The company is
now the leading manufacturer of computer graphics tablets and electronic
pens. Wacom Technology Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacom Co.,
Ltd., in Japan, is headquartered in Vancouver, WA. For more information
please visit www.wacom.com. 


Editorial Contact

Wacom Technology Corp.	
Scott Rawlings
scottr@wacom.com
Tel: +1 (800) 922-6613
www.wacom.com


Sensiva, Inc.
Joanna Chan
joanna@sensiva.com
Tel: +1 (650) 938-6051
Fax: +1 (650) 938-5748
www.sensiva.com