Singapore, 11 April 2001, Wednesday - PixAround.com Pte Ltd announces the commercial launch of the world's first interactive 3D, 360o digital image viewing software for Palm OS® handhelds. Called PixScreenTM Palm 1.0, this patent-pending, high performance product empowers both business and home users with the ability to experience visual content on the move.

PixScreen Palm 1.0 is very easy and convenient to use as it allows visual content to be viewed and shared across Palm OS handhelds with just a single format. This makes sharing of 3D, 360o digital images between friends and business partners easier, more portable and more interactive at any place and time.

The global shipment of PDAs is estimated to grow to 30 million by 2004 (Gartner). Leveraging on this trend of escalating pervasiveness of PDAs, its increasing affordability and Palm's ability to support more colors in its display, PixScreen Palm 1.0 is set to bring the portability of visual content to new heights through delivering visual content right into the "palms" of users.

"The keyword behind the creation of PixScreen Palm 1.0 is 'portability'. It is what people demand in the new digital lifestyle," said Mr Willie Png, Managing Director of PixAround. "With PixScreen Palm 1.0, users no longer have to lug their heavy photo albums around to show their relatives or friends photographs of their baby or their vacation. PixScreen Palm 1.0 provides users with a portable digital album right in their palms wherever they go, thus make sharing of visual content across portable devices very easy and intuitive."

PixScreen Palm 1.0 offers customers the following key features:
- A single format that allows the easy sharing and viewing of visual content across any 4, 8   and 16-bit color Palm OS handheld device running on Palm OS 3.3 and above
- Support for 8-bit and 16-bit color image formats that give users an option to conserve   memory space or view images at higher quality
- Support for 3D view of 360o interactive scenes and object view scenes
- Support seamless beaming of images between Palm OS handhelds
- Interactive four directional panning and zooming on both 2D and 3D views
- Viewing of a slide show off a Palm OS handheld
- Flexibility of viewing, beaming and deletion of one image or a selected group of images

With this spectrum of features, PixScreen Palm 1.0 equips home and business users, especially those in the real estate and travel industries as well as online service providers, with the total capability to seamlessly and effortlessly share visual content on the move. With PixScreen Palm 1.0, professionals in these industries will be able to beam 360o virtual tours of properties or holiday destinations, in color, to prospective customers even when they are on the road, instead of waiting for their bulky laptops to boot-up or get access to the Internet.

PixScreen Palm 1.0 is now available from store.pixaround.com @ US$14.95.

About PixAround

With its vision to transcend boundaries through the creation and delivery of 360o interactive experiences in digital imaging, PixAround.com Pte Ltd develops and markets 360o interactive, digital imaging solutions that incorporate its patent-pending state-of-the-art panoramic imaging and viewer technologies. PixAround's user-friendly solutions allow both business and home users to swiftly create 360o interactive digital images that can be viewed on the Internet and portable devices including PDAs. PixMaker TM 1.0, its flagship product, allows one to easily create 360o PixAround Webpages with virtual tours, complete with hotspots to sound, video and the Web in three simple steps - Snap, Stitch, Publish!™

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