WorldCard Mobile 3.0 Carries New Time-saving Features

Fremont, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/02/2010 -- Penpower Technology Ltd. this week announced advancement in its resoundingly well-received WorldCard Mobile – a mobile business card scanning software application – which promises to save users time with new organizational features and saving options.

With WorldCard Mobile Version 3.0, business users now can tap into the new Card Holder function to manage and view contact information. Card Holder allows users to create groups of contact groupings – such as school, work, business, family ­– for easier navigation and organization.

Version 3.0 improvements to WorldCard Mobile also include the addition of a new Save feature that offers time savings for users in today's accelerated business world. Too busy to file one or multiple business cards following a corporate confab, users now can simply take photos of the cards using their iPhone and save the images with WorldCard Mobile for uploading later when more time allows.

Other WorldCard Mobile application enhancements include tools that allow users to crop images and save both sides of a business card to a contact list. The new version also provides them with the option to use cover flow or list modes for viewing contacts.

Version 3.0 has received accolades from such mobile industry watchers as iPhone Life and Macworld magazines and Gizmodo.com. The popular application, available at the Apple store, has already hit the "top ten" charts in US, Australia, Canada, and the UK.

WorldCard Mobile, the leading business card scanning application for iPhone, uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to instantly transfer information from business cards to the user's native contacts. With a simple click of the camera, users input contact information from business cards or email signatures. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and requires iOS 3.1 or later. It is available via the Apple's App Store which is accessible through iTunes®. Visit http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/worldcard-mobile-business/id333211045?mt=8 to download the app.

For more information on WorldCard Mobile Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphone versions, please visit http://worldcard.penpowerinc.com/product.asp?sn=158

About Penpower Technology
Founded in 1991, Penpower Technology Ltd. is a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for intelligent human computer interface technology. Penpower has focused on developing business productivity software, Asian language-based software, and mobile electronics. Through a human-centric philosophy and continued innovations in multi-processor, multi-platform and multi-language recognition systems, Penpower is the leading provider of information technology, innovations, solutions and professional service dedicated to realizing perfect communications between man and technology.

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Pen Power Inc., the developers of WorldCard Contacts and WorldCard Mobile, has announced an update to its previous version of WorldCard Mobile and WorldCard Contacts.

Fremont, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/19/2010 -- WorldCard Mobile and WorldCard Contacts, the most popular and widely-used iPhone apps for business card management, have recently been updated to support the iPhone OS 4 and its improved features. The latest updates include some new features to enhance the functionality of the apps to work independently. In addition, WorldCard Mobile now features automatic camera shake reduction and improved recognition ability, building on its already impressively accurate scanning capabilities.

The latest version of the WorldCard Mobile includes:

Anti-shaking to capture an image without loosing the focus. (A feature similar to the one found on digital camera).
e-Signature to copy electronic signature and add it to your iPhone contact lists
Improvement in Optical Character Recognition to convert text in images to characters more accurately than in the earlier versions

WorldCard Contacts upgrades include:

Support for iPhone 4
Fully functional on iOS 4
Merges WorldCard Contacts with iPhone Contacts database
The user interface comes with multiple language support (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch)

WorldCard Mobile and WorldCard Contacts are top business card management apps across iTunes stores around the world. WorldCard Mobile app stores your business card information as contacts, without you having to manually enter inputs from your business cards. To make this work, WorldCard Mobile uses improved optical character recognition technologies to convert the text in the business card to an iPhone contact. On the other side, WorldCard Contacts, an alternative to native iPhone contacts, performs great functions that are not available with iPhone contacts. More specifically, the recent upgrade supports iOS 4 and works perfectly with your iPhone 4.

With regard to the updates for WorldCard Mobile and WorldCard Contacts, Penpower CEO, Dr. Tsay said, "Both our iPhone apps are popular in US and Europe iTunes stores and since we're known better for business card apps, we want to update our technology to easily organize and manage your business cards. As professionals, we know how badly one needs an app to manage business cards effectively, and this idea has kept us to improve our app features."

Price and availability:

WorldCard Contacts costs $3.99 and is available on the iTunes store for download.
Visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id352875585?mt=8
Version: 1.1.0

WorldCard Mobile costs $5.99 and is available on iTunes store for download.
Visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/worldcard-mobile-business/id333211045
Version: 1.3

Compatibility
Both the apps are compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad running iOS 3.0 or later versions

About Penpower Inc
Penpower Inc is an iPhone app developer specialized in Data Recognition applications and software that enhance the use of mobile devices. Penpower has won great acclaims for their excellence in the field.

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Penpower, a leading technology company that provides OCR-based Business Card Reader and Document Recognition apps, has released its flagship application WorldCard Mobile in the European market.

Fremont, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/03/2010 -- Penpower, a leading provider of Document Recognition mobile applications, today announced the launch of its flagship Business Card Reader application, WorldCard Mobile in the European market. WorldCard Mobile is a convenient and reliable mobile business tool that transfers contact data from business cards directly to the iPhone address book by using the device's camera and its Text Recognition technology. Names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, mobile phone number, email addresses, website URLs, even MSN/Skype IDs and other key information found on a business card can be saved automatically to the corresponding fields of an iPhone phone book.

WorldCard Mobile Business Card Reader app is known for its superior recognition and faster card scanning qualities which help in sorting out different business card data into appropriate categories. This Business Card Reader application by Penpower uses Optical Character Recognition technology that converts images captured with an iPhone's camera into text. WorldCard Mobile currently recognises 7 languages, namely English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It has an auto image rotation feature through which the app can even recognise business card images from saved images. The supported devices include Apple iPhone 3GS (OS 3.1 or later), and other hand-held devices using Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphones with close-up lenses.

Commenting on the European release, Dr. Tsay, CEO of Penpower Inc., opined "WorldCard mobile application has is already a big success in the Apple iTunes US market and I'm sure it will be just as popular in Europe. We know better than anyone that our Business Card Recognition application is an 'in-the-moment' app that converts images to information, faster than any other Business Card Reader in the market. It is fantastic thing that we can now send 'our card' to CEOs, managers, business heads and people who matter in business, right to the palm of their hand through this most compact information management solution. The European market offers the mobile app industry a new opportunity to reach larger high-end audiences, and monetise applications in a fair way, as well as offering new global distribution platform."

Price and Availability:
Latest Version: WorldCard Mobile 1.2.5 (for iPhone)
App price: $5.99

WorldCard Mobile, the perfect Business Card Reader application for iPhone, is available via the Apple's App Store which is accessible through iTunes®. Visit
http://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/worldcard-mobile-business/id333211045 to download the app.

For more information on WorldCard Mobile Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphone versions, please visit http://worldcard.penpowerinc.com/worldcard.html

Compatibility:

Works on iPhone 3GS
iPhone 2G or 3G users must have image quality enhancement tools.
iPod Touch users can use via saved photos due to the lack of a built-in camera.

About Penpower Inc
Penpower Inc is a leading provider of specialized Data Recognition applications and software for enhancing the use of mobile devices, including Data Recognition software and Multi-Language OCR technology-based Business Card & Document Reader applications for different mobile platforms.

iPhone, iPod Touch and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

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