Faster than the Speed of QWERTY! FrogPad™ and DeMarque Announce a Special Summer Offer for Typing Pal for FrogPad™

What else is there to do this summer? Learn to impact true mobile productivity with the online FrogPad Typing Tutorial and stop Thumbitis!

Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 28, 2006 -- FrogPad, an innovator in productive mobile data entry technologies, has been capturing the curiosity, minds and digits of the growing corporate technology market with the introduction of both USB and Bluetooth one-handed keyboards since 2003. FrogPad is a powerful too for true mobile productivity and prevents the dreaded Thumbitis. With the advent of Microsoft Origami and Windows Mobile 5, FrogPad is the first mobile solution for full text data entry. DeMarque, the renowned creator of E-Learning typing tutorials for corporate settings and for grades K-12 in the US and Canada has teamed with FrogPad to offer a Summer Special.

FrogPad customers can subscribe to the 6-month period at the 3-month subscription rate.

For one fee of $39.95, the faster typing method of FrogPad can be accessed with the licensed tutorial on line for a 6-month period. Promo code: TPF676RT, http://www.demarque.com/demarque/english/shopping/visualiser.asp?71

The FrogPad keyboard is easier to use than a standard keyboard because it is one-handed as most activities are, and it has been designed around the 15 most frequently used letters by all languages using the Roman alphabet. The DeMarque typing tutorial for the FrogPad keyboard features “Friendly Froggie” to train users to type very efficiently with one hand. The On-line tutorial is available in English, and will soon be in French, German and Spanish.

FrogPad™ for Educators

By enabling typing with one hand, FrogPad™ is revolutionizing the use of technology in the education system. The size and portability of the keyboard make it ideal for classroom use. Computer technology has become a very important tool in the educational system for both teachers and students. In elementary schools, the curriculum focuses on ensuring that students are computer literate. Schools devote an entire semester to teaching students how to type. Because of the intuitive patented letter layout, teaching students to type on FrogPad™ will insure faster learning in less time than a semester. An average person can learn to type 40 WPM on the FrogPad™ with less than ten hours of practice, when sixty hours are required for a regular keyboard. The professional tutorial developed and now offered by DeMarque is fun and easy to use. It provides great instruction and training for new users. And young children will leap to using it immediately. It gives every student a real chance to experience the joys of technology.

Disabilities in the Classroom

FrogPad™ is a great tool for students with disabilities. In an education system where inclusion and mainstreaming have become very popular practices, FrogPad™ further enables students with disabilities to function normally in a regular classroom. Its design allows students to type quickly using only one hand, and its size makes it easily portable as well as hardly noticeable to others. Students also love the fun nature of the keyboard with its bright color and cute logo. Most students have referred it to as “cool”. Think of the impact this keyboard makes for children with Dysgraphia and Cerebral Palsy. Visit the disability link for more information.

ABOUT FROGPAD

With customers in countries around the world including Japan, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, U.K., Canada, the United States, FrogPad is quickly becoming the mobile computer interface choice for keyboarders around the world. Today there are four form factors of the patented FrogPad data entry interface: the FrogPad standard keyboard, the slimmer mini FrogPad, the Bluetooth-enabled iFrog, and the most recent addition to the Frog family, the Bluetooth headset, FrogTalk. All keyboards are offered in left and right hand models.

FrogPad products can be purchased online at www.frogpad.com or through its international distribution partner, www.expansys.com. Expansys manages all International direct web-based distribution for FrogPad. FrogPad is well positioned to be the data interface of choice for the projected market of 1.7 billion portable wireless Internet devices.

Founder and FrogPad President Linda Marroquin likens the introduction of the FrogPad to the market changing launches of the Laptop or the PDA, “The standard QWERTY keyboard in use today was designed for a different time when mobile computing devices were only a glimmer in the eyes of their developers; and the continual evolution and miniaturization of mobile technology devices are driving the need for a new kind of data entry device. The patented FrogPad product platform is the solution.”

Current applications for the future wearable Frog include industries with needs for easy data entry from a field application such as shipping logistics, healthcare patient care, and remote field operations such as on-site drilling for the Oil & Gas industry. FrogPad is an innovator in one-handed data entry methods for mobile computing devices.

ABOUT DE MARQUE

DeMarque was founded in 1990 by Marc Boutet, a fifteen-year-old high school student who decided to create his own summer job, and his current partner, Guy Bergeron, a pioneer of IT use in schools. With Guy's background, the company focused on developing applications for the educational market. Since then, De Marque has grown from 2 to more than 40 employees and developed a variety of educational software, CD-ROMs and eLearning applications that are now sold in North America and Europe.

De Marque's best seller is Typing Pal, the funniest and most effective way to learn to type. Typing Pal is available in CD-ROM and online editions for home users, schools, and businesses, and is offered in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Icelandic. De Marque also offers a two-handed Typing Pal online course available at www.typingpal.com.

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