Avalon Announces RoundTable and RoundTable Scheduler
Avalon Engineering, Inc.
45 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02116
Contact: Michael Bonnette/Laura Cherry
(617) 247-7668
Fax (617) 247-7698
eWorld address: Avalon.eng

Boston, MA, August 2, 1994 --Today at MacWorld, Avalon Engineering, Inc., publishers of PresenterPad, announced RoundTable and RoundTable Scheduler, applications designed to manage and schedule meetings on the Newton MessagePad. RoundTable Scheduler is a peer-to-peer Newton scheduling program. RoundTable is an organizational tool for both meeting facilitators and attendees which allows for agenda planning, natural note-taking, easy recording and sharing of minutes, designation of action items, and integration with the Newton Date Book.

For setting up meetings, RoundTable Scheduler allows the meeting facilitator to create an agenda and send it to a list of invitees. The first Newton automatic scheduling program, RoundTable Scheduler lets the facilitator use the Newton to determine a mutually acceptable meeting time based on the participants' calendars. 

For meeting planning, holding and attending, RoundTable helps the user get organized with its unique graphical "meeting table" metaphor. In the planning phase, RoundTable assists in creating a meeting agenda, which can later be divided into "action" items to be assigned to the attendees. For recurring meetings, it will automatically carry unchanging or unresolved items from one session to the next.  While the meeting is going on, RoundTable streamlines minute-taking by providing easy-to-use icons for frequently-performed actions. To improve the handwriting process, RoundTable offers an innovative approach to note-taking which optimizes the Newton recognition system. After the meeting, minutes can be distributed to all attendees, and absent invitees, using RoundTable's meeting review options.

Avalon Engineering, Inc., was founded in April 1991 and has been developing Newton products since the initial Newton rollout in August 1993.  Avalon is the maker of PresenterPad, a presentation software application for the Newton.

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