Pine Brook, NJ - February 7, 2006 - Aequus Technologies Corp. today announced the formation of a new division designed to consolidate the strength of its publishing solutions offerings into a package of digital publishing services created and delivered for today's educational markets. The new Digital Publishing Solutions (DPS) division will address key educational publishing objectives by providing publishers with the ability to quickly and inexpensively create and render instructional materials and assessment in rich digital formats that create new market opportunities without interruption to existing workflows.

Aequus DPS will bring together under common management SWAP™ content conversion services and the AspireREADER™ rendering software to deliver Aequus HotBooks. These new rich digital talking books leverage the power of SWAP-ML™ semantic markup to measurably improve learning outcomes for struggling students and provide multiple learning pathways for mainstream students. HotBooks are intended for use directly by students in the classroom and at home via CD, DVD, or the Internet.

The highly automated SWAP™ toolset converts publisher files, including Adobe PDF, InDesign, and QuarkXpress, into rich XML formats at a fraction of the current offshore content-tagging costs. When this XML is combined with the intelligent rendering capabilities of AspireREADER™, users are able to view and listen to the book in ways that encourage many different learning styles.

Aequus Technologies believes that education and communication are two cornerstones of society, and that today's technological innovations, when properly utilized, can increase the quality of both for all users. At Aequus, we develop technology based products and services that are initially intended to solve accessibility problems for students and professionals that have sensory and cognitive disabilities, as well as those learning English as their second language. By focusing on solving accessibility problems first, Aequus' solutions are ubiquitous and empower all students and professionals to match "built-in" feature function to individual learning and communication styles. As a result, Aequus products and services combine mass market appeal with innovative product functionality. Our tools are fun and functional, relevant and legislatively required, and most importantly cost effective for individuals and organizations to adopt. To learn more about Aequus, visit www.aequustechnologies.com. For a media contact, please call Andrew Forti at (201) 401-6529 or email aforti@aequustechnologies.com.

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