SYDNEY & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST), provider of award-winning FancyPants user interface (UI) technology, has chosen Taiwan-based Pantek Technology Corporation (Pantek) as the company’s regional distributor and value-added reseller. Pantek, with a comprehensive line of semiconductor and embedded software products, together with accompanying design and support services, provides an ideal partner and channel for FST FancyPants. Together Pantek and FST enable and streamline development of eye catching embedded Linux applications in mobile handsets, LCD TVs and digital video equipment (STB/DTV/DVR), and other consumer electronics devices.

“FST and FancyPants UI technology complements and extend Pantek’s world-class product lines and services,” said Victor Shen, president, Pantek Technology Corporation. “Together with FST, the Pantek design and support team will enable our customers to deliver next-generation mobile and video devices that delight end users and stand out in the global consumer electronics marketplace.”

In addition to reselling FST FancyPants, Pantek will apply its considerable expertise to provide first line technical support and development services. “We chose Pantek as our regional partner for their dedication to customer satisfaction, deep technical expertise and strong market position,” commented Robi Karp, FST CEO. “OEMs and ODMs in Taiwan and China already look to Pantek as a strategic supplier and partner to speed their products to market. With FST FancyPants, Pantek customers can further differentiate intelligent device offerings with multimedia user interfaces, impressive graphics performance and amazing look and feel.”

About FancyPants

FST FancyPants is the next generation high performance multimedia and graphics platform for embedded and mobile applications. FancyPants helps device OEMs enhance product differentiation by creating eye-catching and user friendly interfaces with embedded multimedia. Comprising a powerful SDK to simplify the development of rich user interfaces, and an optimized runtime environment, for maximum performance, FancyPants is deployed by creators of innovative consumer, commercial and industrial devices.

FancyPants features a high efficiency runtime with a small resource footprint, multiple axes of abstraction, together with a plug-in architecture for media, display subsystems and hardware accelerated graphics capabilities. With FancyPants, UI code is portable and can automatically take advantage of new hardware, media types and CODECs. View on-line demonstrations of FST FancyPants at www.fst.net/demos/live_videos/live_videos.html.

About Fluffy Spider Technologies P/L

Fluffy Spider Technologies is a provider of advanced GUI and high-performance multimedia products for embedded application development, and also offers custom development. FST’s flagship product is the award-winning FancyPants platform. Founded in 1995, FST customers include Toshiba, VeriFone, Ericsson, HP, Vodafone and GEC. Learn more at www.fst.net or email info@fst.net

About Pantek Technology Corporation

Based in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing China, Pantek Technology Corporation provides its customers with complete systems solutions. Starting with lines of semiconductors from leading technology suppliers, Pantek helps its customers throughout the entire product life-cycle, with design and engineering services, mature integration capabilities and world-class technical support.

Established in 1997, Pantek Technology distinguishes itself as an indispensable distributor and value-added reseller, with deep expertise and quality services. Focused on Communications and Multimedia markets, Pantek Technology offerings include solutions for SDH/SONET transmission, ATM/IP, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth and wireless transmission, Audio CODECs and Network Processors. Learn more at http://www.pantek.com.tw.