Agilix Labs, Inc., a leading developer of mobile software solutions, today announced that GoBinder 2005 received First Prize in the Microsoft Tablet PC Developer Contest for its rich support of digital ink for the education market. Additionally, GoBinder provides universities and students with a replacement for expensive paper and printing costs while preserving and even extending the usefulness of the paper-like experience into the digital realm.

"When we first saw the Tablet PC, we knew immediately that digital ink in the classroom would have a huge impact on teaching and learning," said Curt Allen, President and CEO at Agilix. "We are pleased that GoBinder demonstrates the benefits of the Tablet PC so well for students and educators, and believe this award validates what we're hearing from thousands of customers who are using GoBinder to improve their grades, organize their research, and mobilize their course management systems."

About GoBinder

Agilix GoBinder is the digital replacement for the old-fashioned, three-ring binder. GoBinder helps students and educators stay organized and manage all their learning material in a mobile, portable environment. GoBinder's intuitive "binder" interface provides tabs to organize appointments, assignments, course notes, and more. The course note tabs can store any kind of information, including documents in PDF, PowerPoint, Word, HTML, Flash, video, or other multi-media formats. GoBinder 2005 also works with Microsoft Outlook and Palm devices to easily import and share existing calendar, task, and contact details.

While Agilix GoBinder provides a complete assignment organizer and note-taking solution for Windows XP laptop or desktop computers with keyboards, using GoBinder on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition provides a more natural user experience. With the added benefit of digital ink, students and teachers can add appointments and tasks, write out complex equations, collaborate during lectures, annotate documents, or take hand-written notes on electronic filler paper using familiar colored pens and highlighters.

GoBinder Saves Money and Makes Instructional Content Usable

GoBinder is the perfect companion for campuses and students who use web-based course management systems like Blackboard, WebCT, Angel, eCollege, or open-source offerings. Today, lecture materials are predominately created and distributed with electronic tools. Unfortunately for students, to truly use the learning and teaching materials that come in PDF, PowerPoint, or other electronic formats, the vast majority of documents ends up being printed to paper and added to a three-ring binder to be usable. The CIO at Temple University reported 6 to 7 million pages are printed annually as a result of deploying a course management system, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional costs for the institution (Computerworld, April 5, 2004). At most universities, however, the cost of paper and printing is passed on directly to the students.

With GoBinder, campuses and students can avoid the cost and hassle of printing their lecture notes to paper. More importantly, electronic notes and lecture material become "active" information during the learning experience because students can annotate, search, and share their learning faster and easier than they can with paper.

"GoBinder lets me create a personal copy of all the information my history professor puts on Blackboard," says Michelle Weems, a junior at Sam Houston State University. "Now I organize everything in my own way with my computer without needing to kill trees by printing everything out to paper. I'm a better student because I can take notes on the lecture outlines during class, plus I can review or read anytime without having to logon to the web. GoBinder is a powerful study tool since I can quickly search and find answers in my own notes or in the documents prepared by my professors rather than hunting through pages of paper."

Additional information and a free 30-day trial version of GoBinder are available at www.gobinder.com GoBinder is priced at $49.95 for education customers and can be purchased online at GoBinder.com. Campus-wide licenses of GoBinder and Agilix Mobilizer for Blackboard(TM), a solution that extends Blackboard and enables mobile learning through leveraging existing course content, are available by contacting Agilix at sales@agilix.com or http://www.gobinder.com/forms/pilots.aspx