MINEOLA, N.Y., May 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Torbay Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:TRBY) have been advised by a U.K. distributor that the U.K. Government's Inland Revenue (I.R.) Dept. has purchased a small number of software licenses for an initial evaluation of the company's "Nib" Clickless software.
The Inland Revenue is the Tax Collection department for the United Kingdom. They employ over 70,000 individuals, mostly in customer contact help desk situations. The purchase of the licenses initiates a pilot scale study of Nib Clickless, being conducted by the IT Dept of the U.K. I.R. Dept. It follows dialogue with the U.K. I.R. mediated by the U.K. distributor, in which plans have been prepared to create a U.K. I.R. "annex" to the www.aerobicmouse.com so as to support any potential large roll out of users, in the event that the pilot study is successful and a site license is purchased.
Nib is a software application that allows users to attain full mouse button functionality without the need to click mouse buttons. Clicking mouse buttons places an additional and repetitive load to hand, wrist and forearm muscles and tendons, which are already under tension from the need to grip "old technology" computer mice in order to manipulate them. We consider this to be one method of muscle fatigue prevention that makes a potentially significant contribution to what are termed "fatigue" or "overuse" syndromes associated with the extensive use of computers. Clicking mouse buttons can also be difficult, painful, or even impossible for some individuals with hand impairment, or clinical disabilities, such as arthritis.
Tom Large, President and CEO, stated, "While this is only a limited pilot study and will not contribute substantially to revenues it is a significant development from the perspective of an increasing awareness of the issues, and their correlation with our solutions, both here in the U.S. and in Europe, amongst corporations and now governments, the U.K. Government, as in this case."
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