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    Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd

    7 Prince George’s Park, S118406


    Tel: 6873-2370 Fax: 6873-2309

    MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT

    TEAM SINGAPORE DO US PROUD


    – KOOBITS WINS THE ASIA PACIFIC ICT AWARDS 2008

    Singapore 15 NOVEMBER 2008

    For Immediate Release

    The KooBits Team: (from left) Anqi Chen, Dr Chen Xiangdong, Eugene Jiang, Ehsan Jafri, Kris Childress, Stanley Han, Ren Dompor
    (other key members, not photographed) Prof Sam Ge, Mr Edmund Yong, Bharath Seshadri, Chin Kaiying, Hee Chun Hui, Malcolm
    Soh, Melissa Lee, Liu Ling and Nitar Win.

    KooBits, an innovative interactive digital media authoring and publishing solution


    developed by Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd, was awarded the prestigious Asia Pacific ICT
    Awards 2008 at the awards ceremony held on Saturday night at the spectacular Plaza
    Bapindo Ballroom in Jakarta, Indonesia.

    The Asia Pacific ICT Awards, which aims at indentifying, recognizing and bestowing
    global credibility to innovative regional ICT achievers who have developed unique ICT
    products and solutions, is supported by 16 member economies which are Australia,
    Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar,
    Pakistan, People Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and

    Copyright © Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd


    Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd
    7 Prince George’s Park, S118406
    Tel: 6873-2370 Fax: 6873-2309

    Vietnam. This year’s APICTA Awards is hosted by the Department of Information &
    Communication Republic of Indonesia and ASPILUKI (Association of Computer Software
    Industry of Indonesia).

    Personal e-Motion emerged as winner in the competitive e-Learning category, earning


    the credit and recognition for its effort in developing an innovative authoring software and
    an online publishing portal - www.koobits.com - for students and teachers to easily
    create interactive digital media content, to publish and share them with educational
    communities around the world, and to significantly enhance learning experience through
    the effective use of ICT and new media.

    “We would like to thank the APICTA judges and organizing committee for giving us this
    very special award and the recognition. We feel extremely honored. We will continue the
    effort of developing breakthrough innovation in the area of e-learning and interactive
    digital media, and making KooBits a global brand that benefits millions.” said Mr Stanley
    Han, General Manager and Co-Founder of Personal e-Motion, adding “We would like to
    thank the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation for giving us the trust to represent
    Singapore to compete in the APICTA Awards 2008. We’d also like to thank the National
    University of Singapore and NUS Enterprise for their strong support in our technology
    venture, and the Media Development Authority of Singapore, especially Mr Michael Yap
    and the Interactive Digital Media R&D Program Office for their extensive support to our
    R&D effort. A special mention also goes to Mr Yee Jenn Jong, CEO of ASKnLearn Pte
    Ltd, for his continuous support as our technology partner in Singapore and ASEAN
    region. Special thanks also go to Mr Tham Chor Kee, Mr Melvin Yeoh, Mr Tamil
    Charleston, and many other MOE teachers for their invaluable inputs and support to
    bring KooBits into reality.”

    Personal e-Motion, along with other winning teams from Singapore, fought hard and did
    well in this year’s APICTA competition, helping to bring more recognition to Singapore as
    one of the leading provider for interactive digital media, ICT tools and platform.
    “Singapore has one of the best environments for ICT innovation. We feel very fortunate
    that we started the project in Singapore,” commented Dr Chen, Director and Co-Founder
    of Personal e-Motion, “The market is extremely responsive to ICT innovation; the
    business environment is very conducive. We look forward to work with more partners to
    bring our product beyond Singapore to new markets such as Australia, Korea, Japan,
    Middle East, Europe and USA.”

    About Personal e-Motion


    Founded in Nov 2003 by Prof Sam Ge Shuzhi, Dr Chen Xiangdong and Mr Stanley Han
    Xiaoyan, Personal e-Motion (PEM) offers one of the most intuitive authoring platforms,
    KooBits, for creating truly interactive e-books. PEM also provides a real-time publishing
    and networking portal for users to tell stories, publish e-books, share resources, build
    communities, and realize their creative potential. By exploiting the full potential of current
    technologies, KooBits presents digital content in a much richer and more dynamic
    environment. This intuitive multimedia authoring system is powerful; it creates state-of-
    the-art e-books by seamlessly fusing different digital media (such as text, image,
    animation, flash, video, 3D, etc) in one coherent format. These user-created e-books, are

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    Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd
    7 Prince George’s Park, S118406
    Tel: 6873-2370 Fax: 6873-2309

    being uploaded to the KooBits publishing portal, read, shared and distributed in the
    global village.

    Website: http://www.koobits.com/

    For Media Enquiries


    Mr Stanley Han, General Manager & Co-Founder, Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd
    7 Prince George’s Park, Singapore 118406
    Tel: +65 6873 2370, Mobile: +65 8288 4798 Fax: +65 6873 2309,
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: http://www.koobits.com/

    Copyright © Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd

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