Fluffy Spider Technologies Chooses Taiwan-Based Pantek Technology as Regional VAR

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Mon May 18, 2009 9:22pm EDT

Relationship Builds on Technology and Services Synergies to Serve OEMs in
Taiwan, China and Across Asia for Mobile Phones, LCD TVs, Portable Media, Set
Top Boxes, Digital Video Equipment and Other Consumer Electronics Devices
SYDNEY & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST), provider of award-winning FancyPants user
interface (UI) technology, has chosen Taiwan-based Pantek Technology Corporation
(Pantek) as the company`s regional distributor and value-added reseller. Pantek,
with a comprehensive line of semiconductor and embedded software products,
together with accompanying design and support services, provides an ideal
partner and channel for FST FancyPants. Together Pantek and FST enable and
streamline development of eye catching embedded Linux applications in mobile
handsets, LCD TVs and digital video equipment (STB/DTV/DVR), and other consumer
electronics devices. 

"FST and FancyPants UI technology complements and extend Pantek`s world-class
product lines and services," said Victor Shen, president, Pantek Technology
Corporation. "Together with FST, the Pantek design and support team will enable
our customers to deliver next-generation mobile and video devices that delight
end users and stand out in the global consumer electronics marketplace." 

In addition to reselling FST FancyPants, Pantek will apply its considerable
expertise to provide first line technical support and development services. "We
chose Pantek as our regional partner for their dedication to customer
satisfaction, deep technical expertise and strong market position," commented
Robi Karp, FST CEO. "OEMs and ODMs in Taiwan and China already look to Pantek as
a strategic supplier and partner to speed their products to market. With FST
FancyPants, Pantek customers can further differentiate intelligent device
offerings with multimedia user interfaces, impressive graphics performance and
amazing look and feel." 

About FancyPants

FST FancyPants is the next generation high performance multimedia and graphics
platform for embedded and mobile applications. FancyPants helps device OEMs
enhance product differentiation by creating eye-catching and user friendly
interfaces with embedded multimedia. Comprising a powerful SDK to simplify the
development of rich user interfaces, and an optimized runtime environment, for
maximum performance, FancyPants is deployed by creators of innovative consumer,
commercial and industrial devices. 

FancyPants features a high efficiency runtime with a small resource footprint,
multiple axes of abstraction, together with a plug-in architecture for media,
display subsystems and hardware accelerated graphics capabilities. With
FancyPants, UI code is portable and can automatically take advantage of new
hardware, media types and CODECs. View on-line demonstrations of FST FancyPants
at www.fst.net/demos/live_videos/live_videos.html. 

About Fluffy Spider Technologies P/L

Fluffy Spider Technologies is a provider of advanced GUI and high-performance
multimedia products for embedded application development, and also offers custom
development. FST`s flagship product is the award-winning FancyPants platform.
Founded in 1995, FST customers include Toshiba, VeriFone, Ericsson, HP, Vodafone
and GEC. Learn more at www.fst.net or email info@fst.net

About Pantek Technology Corporation

Based in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing China,
Pantek Technology Corporation provides its customers with complete systems
solutions. Starting with lines of semiconductors from leading technology
suppliers, Pantek helps its customers throughout the entire product life-cycle,
with design and engineering services, mature integration capabilities and
world-class technical support. 

Established in 1997, Pantek Technology distinguishes itself as an indispensable
distributor and value-added reseller, with deep expertise and quality services.
Focused on Communications and Multimedia markets, Pantek Technology offerings
include solutions for SDH/SONET transmission, ATM/IP, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth
and wireless transmission, Audio CODECs and Network Processors. Learn more at
http://www.pantek.com.tw. 



Fluffy Spider Technologies P/L
Robi Karp, +61 2 9281 9055 (Sydney - Australia)
pr@fst.com
or
Pantek Technology Corporation
Andy Liu, 2627 2211 ext. 607
Fax: 2627 2524
andyliu@pantek.com.tw

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