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History of Penpower |
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Penpower Technology Ltd. |
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| 2009 |
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WorldCard Ultra Wins Taiwan Excellence Gold Award 2009 |
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| 2008 |
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WorldCard Ultra Wins G-mark Award 2008 |
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WorldCard Ultra Wins Best Choice Product Design-Innovation Idea Design Award 2008 |
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WorldCard Ultra Wins Red Dot Proudct Design Award 2008 |
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| 2007 |
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WorldCard Ultra Wins iF Proudct Design Award 2008 |
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Alestron, Inc. becomes the full-capital subsidiary company of Penpower in January and renamed as Penpower Inc. in February |
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Longrand Electronics Limited is renamed Penpower Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. |
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Penpower Wireless RF Junior, Penpower Diamond Junior, and WorldCard duet 2 products are introduced |
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| 2006 |
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Voice Command with WinCE [Voking]released |
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Business Card Recognition with WorldCard Mobile released |
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Recognition, input, and translation of Chinese/English/Japanese mini ScanEYE II announced |
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All products support Windows Vista |
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| 2005 |
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Penpower (China) Technology Ltd. Guangzhou office established |
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FaceMertix PC Logon Suite V 2.0 and TrackIN V2.0 released |
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Handwriting-specific MCU for Mobile Phone launched |
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The world's first Bluetooth Handwriting Device Mobile Pen launched |
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WorldCard duet, the latest generation in the WorldCard series, released |
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WorldPhone Scan, a business card scanner for mobile phones, announced |
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Penpower miniCard, a handwriting accessory for the notebook, released |
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| 2004 |
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Merged Alestron, Inc. in U.S. to the subsidiary company |
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Released the Biometrics products, including FaceMetrix Logon, FaceMetrix Access Control and TrackIN |
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Research and development of MCU field |
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| 2003 |
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WorldCard had been advanced the oversea and joined in CES, Computex, SMAU, SIMO Expo Show |
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| 2002 |
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Released WorldCard with International version |
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Joined in the International IT Expo, e.g. CeBIT, Computex and Comdex Fal..etc. |
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The sales and marketing development of Grandpower be founded to the Granpower Technology Ltd. |
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Research and development Wireless Communication and released WorldPhone |
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Penpower became a public company and listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange (5211) |
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| 2001 |
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Listed company in Taiwan and ISO9001 certified |
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Penpower (China) Technology Ltd. be founded to the subsidiary company |
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Established Biometrics development |
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Established the sales and marketing development of Grandpower in Taipei, Taiwan |
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Released Business Card Recognition System with Chinese and English【WorldCard】 |
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Released Handwriting Input System with Supersonic Wave |
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Announced the 2nd generation of Chinese input scanning and translation pen【ScanEYE】 |
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Announced the 3rd generation of Handwriting Input System【Penpower Handwriter】 |
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| 2000 |
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Compliant Palm、WinCE、Linux、@VIS、EPOC built-in PDA platform to SSL field |
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Merged Longrand Electronics (S) Pte. in Hong Kong and Singapore to the subsidiary company. |
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| 1999 |
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Introduced the scanning pen with Chinese Input System |
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Introduced the modification system with Chinese |
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The scale of company had become more expansive, so site had moved to the new building |
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Total capital increased to NT$80 million |
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| 1998 |
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【Penpower VoiceWriter】had originated with the input system combined with Voice Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and OCR |
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Penpower increased to NT$20 million capital |
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| 1997 |
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Research and development Text To Speech and Voice Command Technologies |
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Announced touching-controled board with Handwriting system【Penpower Junior】 |
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| 1996 |
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Originated the convert interface and OCR document and the form reproduction concept |
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Announced the 1st generation of OCR product |
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| 1995 |
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Originated the full-screen continual writing and combine with artificial intelligence (AI) technology |
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Announced Handwriting Recognition with Japanese Version |
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Announced Handwriting Recognition for Macintosh operating system |
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| 1994 |
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Originated the multi-standards continual writing and full-screen character writing |
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Launched research and development of Optics Characters Recognition |
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| 1993 |
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Introduced the 1st and 2nd generation of Chinese Handwriting Input System 【Penpower Handwriting Environment V1.0 & V2.0】 |
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Originated the non-template Handwritten Input Environment first |
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| 1992 |
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Developed the second generation of Chinese Handwriting Input System |
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| 1991 |
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Penpower had founded with NT$5 million capital, and the company established as a specialist in the Intelligent Human Computer Interface. |
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Launched the whole world first set of Chinese Handwriting Recognition Product【Penpower Handwriter】 |
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