ALPHASMART

AlphaSmart provides portable computer companion products that complement PCs in the classroom and help teachers become more productive. They are a leading provider of technology solutions for the education market designed to reduce the cost and complexity of computing devices used in the classroom. Their solutions help students improve fundamental academic skills, help teachers increase classroom productivity and provide administrators with a low total cost of ownership option to achieve the goal of providing one computer for each student, or one-to-one computing. Since the launch of the first AlphaSmart platform in 1993, they have sold approximately 1,100,000 AlphaSmart devices in over 7,500 school districts and have recorded ten consecutive years of profitability.