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NEXTED GROUP LIMITED — Capital/Financing Update 2011
Jun 21, 2011
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Capital/Financing Update
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ASX/Media Announcement
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22[nd] June, 2011
Digislide Signs Agreement with Leading Mobile Technology and Near Field Communication Developer
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Digislide Holdings Limited (“Digislide”, “DGI” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that a Term Sheet and a Heads of Agreement have been signed with the Bencom Group. Founded by Mr Keith Benson, Bencom is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia, with offices in Washington, DC.
The Bencom Group and its affiliated companies have invented and patented a variety of new technologies, and have been leaders in the development of mobile commerce, involving digital phones, personal digital assistants, and smart cards to conduct wireless financial and retail transactions, as well as technology enabling a broad variety of open platform mobile applications.
Bencom and its affiliates designed, developed, produced, and commercialized products based on granted patents and related intellectual property, principally the ‘CardSwitch’ and ‘V-SIM’ technology, and more recently have developed SQWIZZ®, the world’s first simple-to-use, crypto-secure, multi-IO NFC reader/writer/viewer, built to US military specifications.
Bencom’s licensees include Roam Data Inc and Way Systems, which was recently acquired by VeriFone.
The Bencom Group is at the intersection of the real world, virtual world, mobile world, social media world and the advertising world; connecting them all through the fobsized product developed by Bencom’s affiliate NFC Data, Inc., SQWIZZ®, which will rapidly and conveniently deliver valuable data to the “cloud” or wherever the user wants it.
The Term Sheet covers:-
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Investment by Bencom into Digislide Holdings Limited
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Investment by Bencom into VSDN Australia (a subsidiary of Digislide Holdings Limited
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License Fees payable by Digislide
PO Box 20 North Adelaide SA 5006 AUSTRALIA
100-102 Cavan Road Phone 61 8 8262 3115 Dry Creek SA 5094 Fax 61 8 8262 8490 AUSTRALIA www.digislide.com.au
Digislide Holdings Limited ABN 75 105 012 066
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The Heads of Agreement covers:-
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Joint Development Opportunities with Digislide and Spectralus (see ASX Announcement 6[th] March, 2011) regarding embedded projection systems for mobile phones, with optional, simple-to-use, crypto-secure payment systems
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Technical Design
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Software, Componentry and Product Development
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Patent Ownership
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Licensing and Joint Venture Arrangements
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Manufacturing
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Industry Presentations
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Funding Opportunities
The Heads of Agreement envisages the execution of a licence agreement which provides Digislide with a non-exclusive right to use the Bencom Mobile Applications Technology and to practice the inventions claimed under use the Bencom Patents) in Digislide’s products and service offerings. It also covers:-
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joint design work with regard to Securesmart Projection Systems™
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patenting of specific technical details of newly developed technologies or merged technologies
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perpetual joint non-exclusive licensing of Securesmart Projection Systems™ and Bencom’s V-SIM technology
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cross selling and/or licensed distribution of products
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joint presentations to potential designers, developers and/or manufacturers of Notebook/Laptop/tablet, cameras, mobile phone, GPS, PMP, PDA, Games Console regarding embedding Securesmart Projection Systems™
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joint presentations to potential designers, developers and/or manufacturers of medical and defence equipment regarding embedding Securesmart Projection Systems™
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becoming Joint Venture partners in commercialising IPTV/VSDN Technologies
The alliance between Bencom and Digislide is particularly complementary, enabling a unique offering to manufacturers and users of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, GPS, PMP and games consoles.
Ms Luceille Outhred, CEO of Digislide, said “Our defence related Intellectual Property will be further enhanced with encrypted near field communication capabilities, and of course, these applications are also suitable for the medical field, where high quality mobile images and security of data are essential”.
“Bencom’s technologies also have applications for our Hong Kong based joint venture, Digismart Commerce, which is
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commercialising Digismart Swap® targeted at the multi-billion dollar global Sports and Film industries.” Ms Outhred added.
Mr Keith Benson, Chief Executive Officer of Bencom, said “Digislide is uniquely positioned to leverage the V-SIM mobile applications technology we have developed over the last decade in enabling open platform delivery of IPTV and video projection via mobile devices. Combined with Bencom’s encrypted secure payment and delivery technologies, Securesmart Projection Systems™ have enormous potential across a broad array of markets. We are excited to be joining with Digislide and look forward to a long and successful collaboration.”
It is understood by both parties that the opportunities could roll out over a period of up to 8 years.
About Bencom
Bencom Group is a privately owned company formed under the Australian Corporations Law with its headquarters in Adelaide, Australia.
Bencom Group and its affiliated companies have invented and patented a variety of new technologies since January 1996. They have been a leader in the developing industry of mobile commerce, which involves the use of digital phones, personal digital assistants, and smart cards to conduct wireless financial and retail transactions, and in developing technology for offering a broad variety of open platform applications on mobile devices not subject to the control of the network operators.
Beginning in the mid-1990’s, Bencom has designed, developed, produced, and commercialized technology and products based on numerous granted patents and related intellectual property, including principally the ‘CardSwitch’ and V-SIM’ technology
About Digislide
Digislide is an innovative Australian based company with an extensive Intellectual Property portfolio and proven capacity to design, develop and commercialise complex projection products. The technologies have wide patent protection and have already received international acclaim.
Digislide’s strategy is to licence manufacturers to produce miniature projection systems for embedding in mobile and/or hand held communication devices, such as mobile phones, PDA’s and notebook computers, and its tactical focus has been to design hand held projectors which complement and interface with 5 of the world’s biggest selling electronic devices; Apple’s iPHONE™ and iPOD™, Nintendo’s Wii™, Sony’s Playstation™ suite and Microsoft’s XBox 360™.
Following the convergence of projection, telecommunications, mobile gaming, and IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) technologies VSDN Pty Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary) was incorporated.
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Virtual Streaming Distribution Network (VSDN) technologies remove the perception of the Internet as “the digital divide” and enable it to be “the fourth utility”. IPTV brings access to information, education, entertainment, health and wellbeing to a commodity level.
Further information contact:
Jeff King Company Secretary Ph: 61 8 - 8262 3115
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