FrogPad™ Data Entry Device Leaps Into Education Market with Keyboarding Tutorial for Educators

(I-Newswire) January 11, 2005 - FrogPad, an innovator in data entry methods for mobile computing, is capturing the hearts, minds and digits of the growing educational market by bundling the FrogPad data interface device with an intuitive online tutorial, developed with its strategic partner DeMarque. DeMarque creates educational content and tools using computer-based training. This partnership marks the first of many to come in 2005 as part of the FrogPad strategy to develop partnerships to extend the FrogPad technology to new markets such as gaming and additional educational applications.

Today there are four form factors of the patented-FrogPad data entry interface: the FrogPad standard keyboard, the slimmer mini FrogPad, the Bluetooth enabled iFrog and the most recent addition to the Frog family, the fabric wearable FrogPad. The FrogPad tutorial will be on display in the FrogPad Booth #749 at the MACWORLD Conference San Francisco, January 10 – 14, 2005.

FrogPad products can be purchased online at www.frogpad.com or through its new international distribution partner Expansys, which manages all of its direct web-based distribution at www.expansys.com. FrogPad is well positioned to be the data interface of choice for the projected market of $1.7 billion portable wireless Internet devices.

Founder and FrogPad President Linda Marroquin has been focused on the education market since the launch of the first FrogPad, "With the growth of mobile computing devices, we want to arm educators with the latest in data entry device technology which is geared towards these mobile devices. The FrogPad is quickly becoming the standard for data entry for the mobile computing market," states Marroquin. "The creation of the tutorial with our partner DeMarque is a powerful tool for educators."

Other innovations introduced by FrogPad in 2004 include the FrogTalk, a headset with Bluetooth technology licensed to FrogPad; and both the right handed and left-handed FrogPad device. FrogPad is positioned to bound into the expanding technology gaming market with the introduction of the XFrog for gaming devices. The 2005 FrogPad product roadmap also includes new versions of the wearable FrogPad for the military market along with various educational applications.

Pricing and Global Availability
The educator's package of FrogPad keyboard and tutorial is immediately available for distribution through its offices in the U.S. For more information, contact Linda Marroquin at (US) 713-529-4474.

About FrogPad
Houston-based FrogPad™ is a one-handed keyboard to be used with USB Keyboard compatible PDA's, Pocket PCs, Tablet and Wearable PC's, and other mobile applications, such as portable laptops, which utilizes the flexibility and ease of one-handed functionality and the performance of an efficient keyboard. The wearable Frog is a fabric one-handed keyboard that is 1/5th the size of traditional keyboards yet easier to use, as it offers a logical key layout and design that encourages correct ergonomic posture. For more information, see: www.frogpad.com.

About DeMarque
De Marque creates and markets educational content and tools using computer-based training and e-learning techniques to allow people to acquire knowledge and develop skills. For more information, visit www.demarque.com.

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