FastData! software lets electronic mail send visual images

SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 15, 1994 -- Smart Tools introduces FastData!, a
software tool to help people share visual images using electronic mail and
personal computers.

Binary Transmission Problem Solved

Although electronic mail (e-mail) is now widely used to instantaneously
communicate text messages, up until now it hasn't been possible to use
most e-mail systems to transmit binary data. By repackaging binary
graphics data as a self displaying file and through innovative coding
methods, FastData! now permits those same e-mail systems to transmit
visual images.

Promotes Data Sharing

By allowing people to use their existing, familiar e-mail systems to
transmit images, the sharing of graphics data is now much easier.
E-mailing presentation graphics, charts and digitized photographs will
remove work delays caused by paper handling and sending by postal mail or
express delivery services. Viewing images on personal computers allows for
much clearer pictures than facsimile machines can show. Color charts and
photographs can also be e-mailed.

Acts As Distribution Tool

The self displaying files that FastData! creates are standalone programs
that can be run without any additional software and can be distributed to
any number of people. By using internal compression, the resulting file
size is kept small, typically 50K bytes for 1 picture.

Besides displaying, each self displaying program also allows one to print
the picture to a laser printer and to save the displayed picture to a
standard graphics file format for use by other software packages.  A
moveable marker with coordinates is displayed that enables people at
different sites to discuss and a common spot on the picture just as though
they were in the same room.

A separate included utility allows the transmission of arbitrary binary
data, useful for sharing spreadsheets, databases, and word processor
documents.

Introductory Offer

It is being offered for a limited time at an introductory sale  price of
$99, discounted from its suggested retail price of $299.

Requirements

FastData! runs on IBM PC compatibles with VGA graphics and DOS v3.0+. It
works with all e-mail systems, including VAXes, LANs, IBM mainframes, and
the Internet.

For more information call Smart Tools at (408)733-3656 (tel), 
(408)746-0941 (fax), 70511.3221@compuserve.com (Internet).

Smart Tools, est. 1990, develops original software and sells integrated
image capture and transmission systems.

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