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This should be of interest to those of you that work with GeoExpress 7 in your applications. Just released free SDK from LizardTech for GeoExpress 7.

SEATTLE, Wash. - June 2, 2008 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the release of its free GeoExpress 7 SDK, a toolkit for decoding and viewing MrSID and JPEG 2000 images in third-party applications.

This latest release of the GeoExpress 7 SDK offers support for 64-bit platforms, providing developers better compatibility with GDAL and other third-party libraries along with access to more memory than before when working with MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery. Improved documentation and sample applications for this release will make it easier for developers to integrate with third-party applications.

Additionally, the GeoExpress 7 SDK includes support for modern compilers including Visual Studio 2008 and gcc 4.1 and the latest operating systems such as Windows Vista, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and Mac OS X 10.5.

“Developers have been asking for a 64-bit SDK from LizardTech for quite some time,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech’s geospatial product manager, “along with support for the latest compilers such as VC 9. We’re glad that we’re able to provide this latest version of our free SDK which will make it easier for them to add support for MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery in their applications.”

The GeoExpress SDK is the geospatial industry’s only solution that offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in the quality of imagery. LizardTech’s GeoExpress SDK is available for free for many different operating systems and compilers and can be downloaded directly from LizardTech’s website at http://developer.lizardtech.com.

About LizardTech

LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., was founded in 1992 to build valuable business solutions from technologies created by the world’s leading research organizations including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AT&T Labs. LizardTech is a leader in applying state-of-the-art technologies to the real-world challenges of managing, distributing, and accessing large complex digital content such as aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and color scanned documents. LizardTech’s software is installed on millions of desktops and integrated into a wide variety of platforms and applications. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. LizardTech is a division of Celartem, Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc., develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc., with headquarters in Seattle.

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