Celartem Technology Inc.’s DjVu^® Document Format Provides Solution for Converting Back Issues of Magazines into Electronic Format

SEATTLE, Wash. – November 28, 2007 - Celartem Technology Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, today announced that its DjVu technology has been chosen by Bondi Digital Publishing of New York to capture and compress exact page-by-page reproductions of the entire Playboy Magazine and Rolling Stone archives.

On November 2nd Bondi released the first two products in its Cover to Cover series. Playboy Cover To Cover: The 50s a DVD-ROM set of the inaugural decade of Playboy Magazine andRolling Stone Cover To Cover: The First Forty Years which includes each of the 1024 issues published from Nov. 1967 through May 2007. Future products will include Playboy by decade as well as other magazine archives to be announced.

After creating hi-resolution scans of the magazine pages, Bondi compressed each image using Celartem’s DjVu technology, resulting in dramatically smaller electronic page images that have far better image quality than JPEG. Furthermore, DjVu digital replicas preserve the stunning visual quality of the print edition necessary to uphold such iconic brand names.

Creating a fully searchable digital archive of 98,000 pages of Rolling Stone and over 115,000 pages of Playboy required a file format which best preserved the original image quality while delivering the smallest possible file size. In addition, Bondi needed a file format with the fastest decode speed.

Bondi was first introduced to DjVu while developing the software interface used by The New Yorker Magazine for the highly successful The Complete New Yorker. President Murat Aktar explains, “Compressing scans of magazine pages tests the limits of any format. Text quality, image resolution, file size and decode speed are all critical. The team at The New Yorker evaluated every possible solution and selected DjVu. We conducted our own equally exhaustive evaluations for the Playboy and Rolling Stone projects and reached the same conclusion. Celartem’s DjVu technology best preserved the brilliance and experience of the original glossies.”

“We’re very excited that Bondi Digital Publishing saw our DjVu technology as the best solution for efficiently delivering more than 50 years of captivating stories and stunning images, immortalizing some of the most popular cultural events of our time,” said Dr. Hyung Lim, Celartem’s General Manager of Document Imaging. “Articles by the finest writers of the 20th century such as Hemingway, Kerouac and Steinbeck in addition to photography contributed by legends such as Annie Leibovitz have been preserved for future generations to enjoy.”

The Playboy and Rolling Stone DVD-ROM sets retail for $100 and $125 respectively. Learn more about Document Express with DjVu here. Download the free DjVu Browser Plug-in here.

About Bondi Digital Publishing

Founded in 2004, Bondi designs, creates and publishes a product line of complete print magazine archive box sets in digital editions. Under the leadership of David Anthony and Murat Aktar-two of today’s top experts in digital user experience design and the migration of music, print, film and games to digital platforms-Bondi has quickly built a reputation within the magazine industry as innovators in the creation and development of consumer friendly, searchable digital magazine archives. Consumers were first introduced to its software platform as part of the landmark offering, The Complete New Yorker (released in September 2005). Bondi has since landed major licensing deals with key international media corporations, including Playboy Enterprises and Wenner Media, the owner of Rolling Stone magazine.

About Document Express with DjVu

Document Express with DjVu products combine advanced compression algorithms with sophisticated image segmentation technologies, enabling the rapid exchange and efficient archiving of complex color documents and optical character recognition (OCR) in more than a hundred languages, all without compromise to image quality or text legibility. The core technology underlying DjVu, developed in AT&T Research Labs, is in open source. The Document Express Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate DjVu encoding and decoding functionality into their applications and enables organizations to integrate the DjVu technology directly into their document management workflow.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

Company Visits Brighton School on GIS Day

SEATTLE, Wash. – Nov. 14, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the company’s participation in GIS Day on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by visiting Brighton School for a presentation about geography and geographic information systems (GIS), part of the international Geography Awareness Week.

The focus of LizardTech’s GIS Day presentation will be geography and the role it plays in everybody’s daily lives. Additionally, the evolution of technology and its impact on geographic information systems will be examined in light of the students’ current study of the American Revolutionary War. In their presentation, LizardTech representatives will display Revolutionary War era maps of the 13 original colonies, while quizzing the students and challenging them to identify the difficulties in map creation during that time period.

LizardTech’s goal through participation in GIS Day is to establish a mentor relationship with local youth. It is the company’s desire to introduce school children to and educate them in geography and GIS in general, thus engendering excitement about this field as a potential future career option. GIS Day is the perfect opportunity to help expose students to new technologies.

“By participating in GIS Day, LizardTech provides an opportunity for students to discover new technologies and curricula they may otherwise not have known about,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech Senior Product Manager for Geospatial Imaging.

GIS Day is held on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week. It was designed to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open houses, hands-on workshops, community expos, school assemblies, and more.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

SEATTLE, Wash. – October 25, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today that Aeromap Technology Systems, a private company based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed an agreement to represent LizardTech software and to promote the leading geospatial image compression formats: the industry standard MrSID^® and the ISO standard JPEG 2000.

Alistair Maclenan, responsible for LizardTech sales in the EMEA region, said of the partnership, “The collaboration with Aeromap represents an excellent opportunity for companies and organisations throughout the Middle East to purchase industry-leading software through a reputable and reliable local company.”

Aeromap was founded to provide a complete mapping solution to customers who need aerial data acquisition, photogrammetry services and GIS implementations. Their expertise also extends to providing airborne LiDAR surveys as well as ground-based LASER scanning.

LizardTech’s product suite of GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express is designed to allow customers to prepare, store and deliver images in the most efficient possible manner. Organisations all over the world rely on the industry standard MrSID compression format to allow them to easily handle massive images and do much more with their imagery than was previously possible. GeoExpress will allow Aeromap’s customers to prepare their imagery for use with tools for reprojection, colour balancing, mosaicking and compression. Express Server will give users the ability to rapidly distribute massive datasets. The latest innovation, Spatial Express, will allow customers to store images natively within an Oracle^® database. Aeromap will promote all three products to geospatial customers throughout the Middle East region.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

SEATTLE, Wash., – July 17, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today that Michael P. Gerlek, manager of LizardTech’s engineering department, will conduct a workshop focusing on geospatial standards for JPEG 2000 in conjunction with GeoWeb 2007, to be held July 23-27, 2007, at the Morris J. Wosk Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. LizardTech is exhibiting in booth #21.

On Monday, July 23 from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Gerlek will conduct an updated version of the popular workshop he’s given at GeoWeb in previous years titled “Geospatial Standards for JPEG 2000.” The workshop introduces the JPEG 2000 (JP2) image compression system for geospatial imaging. Gerlek will first cover the basics of image compression, the features that JPEG 2000 offers, and the new imaging workflows it enables. The emphasis will be on describing the breadth of the system rather than how the system is implemented in detail. In the second half of the workshop, Gerlek will present some standards and technologies being used specifically to bring this file format into the geospatial market, including adding geography markup language (GML) support (GMLJP2), Web Coverage Service support (WCS), streaming (JPIP), and geospatial database support.

Based on feedback that Gerlek received from previous years after conducting his workshops, sample tools and images will be provided for the participants to take home. In addition, the workshop will also have significant demonstration content, derived from recently conducted work on the Open Geospatial Consortium’s OWS-4 project.

The conference, organized by Galdos Systems Inc. and supported by the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), is the only event focused exclusively on the convergence of GIS and the Web, which will enable rapid access to accurate and current information through open standards.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

“Show and Tell” Contest Winners To Receive GPS Systems

SEATTLE, Wash. – June 14, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced a special contest they are running in conjunction with next week’s ESRI International User Conference being held in San Diego, CA, June 19-21, 2007.

An exhibitor at the conference (Booth #601), LizardTech will be challenging attendees to Show off their LizardTech lizard collections and Tell how much they know about LizardTech. Every participant in LizardTech’s “Show & Tell” contest will receive an ESRI 2007 special-edition collector’s lizard. Two contest winners will be awarded GPS Systems (each valued at $400). Contest details can be found here.

In addition, LizardTech will be showcasing its complete line of geospatial products at this year’s ESRI show:

• GeoExpress, the image encoding and manipulation product offering high compression without sacrificing image quality.
• Express Server, newly launched image distribution software that serves imagery to more users in less time without requiring additional hardware or bandwidth.
• Spatial Express, database tools that enable users to store, manage, and access massive image datasets efficiently using their relational database.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

New Site Offers Solutions for Users of Large Raster Datasets

SEATTLE, Wash. – June 12, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the launch of a new demonstration website to showcase the speed and interoperability of Express Server.

The site is designed to accommodate the needs of users facing a vast array of challenges when distributing imagery. Whether it’s someone needing to use high resolution imagery in the field for decision support, view imagery in many different applications or distribute large image datasets to their end users, the Express Server demonstration site illustrates how users’ workflows can become easier and more productive.

“We designed the Express Server demonstration site with our end-users needs in mind,” said Jon Skiffington, product manager. ”We realize that although all of our end users work with imagery, they all face their own unique challenges when trying to distribute that imagery. This demonstration site is tailored towards individuals with different image distribution needs and challenges, and it answers their questions by taking them on a tour that shows them how easy it is to integrate Express Server into their existing workflow and how easy raster imagery can be to work with.”

The site is live now. To take a tour, simply visit http://demo.lizardtech.com and find solutions to the problems you face when distributing imagery to end users across the hall and around the world.

About Express Server

Express Server enables instant online viewing of massive geospatial imagery over any device by optimizing output from existing hardware. Express Server ensures interoperability through support for standards such as JPEG 2000 and Web Map Service (WMS) publishing, and through features such as Oracle integration and the ArcIMS integration toolkit.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

Now Equipped with Oracle Integration, GMLJP2 Metadata

SEATTLE, Wash. – June 11, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the release of Express Server 6 for distribution of massive geospatial image datasets via the Internet. Express Server 6 advances GIS interoperability with new features such as Oracle integration, geography markup language (GML) metadata for JPEG 2000 (JP2) and updated and newly added sample Web applications.

Best known for its highest quality Web distribution, Express Server 6 is now further integrated with products from both LizardTech and other third parties such as Oracle. With the Oracle integration, Express Server 6 acts as an intermediary between Oracle and other applications.Express Server 6 makes it easy to distribute imagery stored in Oracle databases running Spatial Express, LizardTech’s database plug-in. In addition, Express Server preserves the utmost security by using Oracle’s security infrastructure, meaning your data is always secure.

This is great news for geospatial users, who will benefit from Express Server 6 by easily being able to publish imagery in Oracle to the Web via OGC standards such as Web Mapping Services (WMS), through industry applications such as ArcIMS, or simply via Web applications.

With GMLJP2 recently adopted as a standard for adding GML metadata to JPEG 2000 images, LizardTech continues to lead the industry in supplying tools supporting GMLJP2. Express Server 6recognizes GML metadata stored in JPEG 2000 imagery and renders the image in the correct geospatial location and projection system. It also recognizes requests for imagery using the WMS interface where imagery is requested in coordinates from the GML metadata. By supporting GML for JP2 imagery, Express Server 6 ensures that your JPEG 2000 imagery is interoperable and geospatially correct.

The speed of image delivery over any connection using Express Server 6, along with its improved support for interoperability via WMS, will make it much easier for users to integrate their various applications together.

Express Server 6 is also equipped with new and updated sample Web applications that show off the server’s rapid image delivery and ease of integration. Through a number of Javascript, Flash, and AJAX based sample web applications, web developers can quickly customize the applications to suit their needs and deploy them to their users.

“The release of Express Server 6 makes it easier than ever for our customers to manage and deploy their large raster datasets,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech’s geospatial product manager. ”Now that imagery can be stored in a database and served via open standards such as WMS, our customers can manage their images securely while viewing them in any WMS application.”

Pricing and Availability

Express Server 6 starts at $6,999.00 MRSP and is available for purchase now. For information on where to purchase Express Server 6 please click here.

About Express Server

Express Server enables instant online viewing of massive geospatial imagery over any device by optimizing output from existing hardware. Express Server ensures interoperability through support for standards such as JPEG 2000 and Web Map Service (WMS) publishing, and through features such as Oracle integration and the ArcIMS integration toolkit.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

Chapter Three of New Book Focuses on Uses of JPEG 2000

SEATTLE, Wash. – June 4, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today that two of its developers and JPEG 2000 experts, Michael P. Gerlek and Matthew Fleagle, wrote Chapter Three of a book titled “The Geospatial Web,” where they share knowledge stemming from research conducted at LizardTech to equip JPEG 2000, an ISO Standard, for geospatial network applications by means of geography mark-up language (GML) and to make support for JPEG 2000 available in LizardTech’s line of geospatial products, GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.

“We were thrilled to contribute the chapter on JPEG 2000 to this collaborative effort,” said Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech software architect. “Having the insight on the topic from working at LizardTech for the past 10 years, it was a natural fit for us to share our findings.”

“As the editors of the book, we were extremely lucky to have LizardTech’s imaging experts contributing a chapter on JPEG 2000 as an increasingly popular and ‘spatially aware’ standard for storing and delivering imagery for the Geospatial Web,” said professor Arno Scharl of the Know-Center and Graz University of Technology in Austria, co-editor of the book.

“The Geospatial Web,” published in London by Springer and edited by Scharl and professor Klaus Tochtermann, summarizes the latest research on the Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describes information services and collaborative tools built on top of three-dimensional platforms, known as geobrowsers, and investigates the environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications. The book is available for sale now. More information is available atwww.geospatialweb.com.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

New Plug-in Offers More Refined User Interface

SEATTLE, Wash. – May 7, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the release of the free ExpressView Browser Plug-in 4.0, designed to offer a more refined user interface to customers who need a quick and easy way to view their MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery.

The ExpressView Browser Plug-in enables users to use measurement tools and view coordinate system information much more intuitively than in earlier versions. In addition, full support for Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox, and Windows Vista is available, making it easy for customers to use many of the popular operating systems and Web browsers.

Other updates include full coordinate reference system support, geography markup language (GML) for JPEG 2000 (JP2), multiband image viewing, as well as support for MrSID and JPEG 2000 files served by LizardTech Express Server and support for saving images in a number of different formats.

“Our goal is to always listen to our customers’ requests and build tools that make their jobs easier,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech’s product manager. “The ExpressView Browser Plug-in does just that with an easier to use interface that puts the tools our customers need right in front of them so they can be more productive.”

The free ExpressView Browser Plug-in can be downloaded here.

LizardTech is exhibiting this week at the ASPRS Show in Tampa, FL. Stop by Booth #211 to learn more about the ExpressView Browser Plug-in and LizardTech’s complete line of geospatial products.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.