May 12, 2005, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA -- Kongda Inc is pleased to announce the official release of ActivePen 2.0, a screen capture and annotation software for Microsoft Windows platform. The new release provides an unlimited-time free trial, which is no different from the production version with the exception of a watermark on some screens. The product can be downloaded from http://www.activepen.com

Kongda offers free upgrade from ActivePen 1.0 to 2.0. You can send an email titled "ActivePen free upgrade request" with your last name, first name, address, company name and number of licenses that you purchased to support@kongda.com. Your email address must match the one that you used when you purchased version 1.0

ActivePen 2.0 builds features of Screen Annotation, Screen Capture, Image Viewer and Presentation Tool into a single easy-to-use package.

Screen Annotation: With ActivePen2.0, you can highlight, freehand draw, type text, draw lines, arrows, rectangles or ellipses on your computer screen no matter what applications are running in the background. You can erase your annotations, undo your actions, or restore the last screen.

Screen Capture: You can use ActivePen 2.0 to capture full screen, selected area of the screen, popup menu, dropdown list, and send the screenshot to an image file, clipboard or printer. You can paste the image to your favorite office products such as Microsoft Word, Visio, or attach the image to your email. The image file supports the following formats: GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF. You can capture the screen with annotations or overlay the screen to compare two similar pictures.

Image Viewer: Using ActivePen 2.0, you can load an image onto the screen, walk through images in its folder or subfolders. You can flip, roate, resize or delete the image. You can even anchor the image so that it becomes part of your annotated screen.

Presentation Tool: You can add a spotlight, zoom, copy or cut the screen. Using ActivePen 2.0 to open a Microsoft PowerPoint file, you can make annotations, highlight or draw lines right on the slides during your presentation.

May 28, 2004, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA -- Kongda Inc is pleased to announce its acceptance as a Microsoft Empower ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Partner. Being a member of the program gives us early access to Microsoft leading-edge technologies, and the acceptance to the program demonstrates Kongda's commitment to its vision, providing simple and powerful software solutions so that our customers can focus on their core businesses without the need to spend time learning how to use Kongda softwares.

August 28, 2003, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA -- Kongda Inc, a software development and technology consulting company, is pleased to announce the official release of ActivePen 1.0, a screen capture and annotation software for Microsoft Windows platform. The new software release provides 60-day free trial and can be downloaded from http://www.activepen.com
ActivePen 1.0 builds features of Screen Annotation, Screen Capture and Presentation Utility into single intuitive and easy-to-use package. It is Kongda's first software product built upon the corporate vision "To become the world leader in building simple and powerful software solutions".
Screen Annotation: ActivePen 1.0 allows you to make annotations on your computer screen no matter what applications you use in background. You can highlight, freehand draw, type text, draw lines, rectangles or ellipses. Rectangles and ellipses can be filled or not filled, with border or without border. You can erase your annotations or restore your original screen.
Screen Capture: You can use ActivePen 1.0 to capture full screen, selected area of the screen, popup menu and send the screenshot to an image file, the clipboard or a printer. You can paste the image to your favorite office products such as Microsoft Word, Visio, or attach the image to your email. The image file supports following formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF. You can capture the annotated screen or the original screen without any annotations.
Presentation Utility: Using ActivePen 1.0 to open Microsoft PowerPoint file, you can make annotations, highlight or draw lines right on the slides during your presentation. (You need to have Microsoft PowerPoint software installed on your computer to use this feature)