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Press Contact: Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, native sound module, and the fastest definition look-up with SlovoEd technology for the newest generation of Apple Handheld Devices FREIBURG, Germany – October 7, 2008 - Paragon Software Group, the world’s leading software developer and content provider for mobile devices and desktop PCs, has launched The Talking English Dictionary for the iPhone and iPod touch. The most authoritative coverage of vocabulary in the English-speaking world is coupled with Paragon’s advanced SlovoEd engine to bring premium dictionary content to iPhone users directly on the mobile device screen. The Talking English Dictionary was tailor-made for the iPhone, with all special characteristics and unique features of the device in mind. The dictionary database contains more than 240,000 words, phrases and definitions in British English, and is the most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available on the market. No Internet connection is required – simply download once and use it without incurring any additional expenses. The “History” feature shows the last 15 translated words, and the “Cross-Lookup” feature is an easy check of language comprehension. For users wishing to take advantage of the premium audio abilities of the iPhone, a native British sound module of 20,000 words is available as well.
“We are pleased to include one of Oxford University Press’s premium British dictionaries in The Talking English Dictionary,” said Evan Schnittman, Vice President of Business Development at OUP. “Oxford University Press has a 600 year history of being at the forefront of technology in scientific, linguistic and scholarly research. OUP dictionary content made available on latest-generation iPhones through Paragon’s SlovoEd dictionary engine helps further that mission.” The Talking English Dictionary features rapid browsing through the SlovoEd engine, which compresses the dictionary content to a minimum of memory space while allowing the user to perform multiple learning, word reference and translation functions as quickly as possible. Now, users can find authoritative definitions with a single click without having to leave the active application and switch to the dictionary. Paragon Software Group offers a wide choice of more than 120 dictionaries for 30 languages, and the best dictionary content from world-famous publishers. The product is available for $24.99 (19.99 € or £14.99) from the Apple Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/. The program is supported by iPhones with firmware 2.0, iPhone 3G and iPod touch with firmware 2.0. Direct link: About Paragon Software Group All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ###
Press Contact: FREIBURG, Germany – October 1, 2008 – Paragon Software Group, a leading developer of electronic dictionaries for mobile devices and desktop PCs, launches ”Duden – German Explanatory Dictionary” for iPhone and iPod touch. Duden, unsurpassed in its authority and command of the German language, offers 150,000 up-to-date keyword entries, including 10,000 new words and phrases relevant to modern life. Due to Paragon’s innovative compression engine, the most comprehensive dictionary of German terms is now offered in digital format and can be used on all mobile devices, including iPhone and iPod touch. The ”Duden – German Explanatory Dictionary” for iPhone features 150,000 keywords and phrases, with 500,000 explanations and usage examples, including notes on spelling, grammar, word origin and style. Duden offers 8,000 audio pronunciations for the most difficult words, and includes modern terms and advice on word usage in linguistically sensitive cases. Users can employ Duden’s cross-lookup feature to check language comprehension skills, and can view the last 15 translated words in Search History. No Internet connection is required – simply download the dictionary to the iPhone/iPod touch once and use it without incurring any additional expenses. ”’Duden – German Explanatory Dictionary’ is unparalleled in its attention to the subtleties of the German language, and represents very high-quality editorial work. We are pleased to join forces with Paragon Software Group and bring this product, inseparable from German culture, to even more mobile users worldwide,” said Hans Huck-Blänsdorf, Head of e-content services, Duden.
Paragon’s state-of-the-art engine allows the highly comprehensive Duden database to be browsed rapidly, making wireless dictionary use for native speakers and language learners of all levels effortless. Paragon’s technology makes it possible for mobile users around the globe to work and communicate in one of the most spoken languages in the European Union even more easily. For sales inquiries, please contact Paragon at corporate-sales@penreader.com or call 1-888-969-5282. Supported languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified PRC, Chinese Traditional Hong Kong, Chinese Traditional Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Ukrainian. Features include:
”Duden – German Explanatory Dictionary” is the most comprehensive German explanatory dictionary in one volume. It includes not only up-to-date German vocabulary, but also covers its dialects and varieties in Austria and Switzerland. Detailed entries are devoted to the technical terms, professionalisms, jargon, and slang. As any other explanatory dictionary, Duden contains elaborated entries on the meaning and usage of the words and speech tokens in the sentence. The current edition offers converted, updated, and considerably extended content of keywords from A to Z. ”Duden – German Explanatory Dictionary” corresponds to the obligatory Official Spelling Rules dated August, 2006. The Version for iPhone/iPod touch offers numerous functions that actualize word search in the dictionary. ”Duden German Explanatory Dictionary” is available for 29.99 EUR via download from the Apple Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/. The program is supported by iPhones with firmware 2.0, iPhone 3G and iPod touch with firmware 2.0. For other sales inquiries, please contact corporate-sales@penreader.com. About Paragon Software Group All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ###
Press Contact: Paragon Software Group Announces Handy Shell, an Advanced Replacement for S60 Active Standby ScreenCustomizable Views and Plugins for Easy and Effective Work on S60 Smartphones IRVINE, Calif. – September 19, 2008 Epocware, a subsidiary of Paragon Software Group, announces Handy Shell, a brand-new application replacing the entire S60 Active Standby screen. Handy Shell allows the user to take complete control over the device’s screen and customize it according to the user’s wishes thanks to attractive new features, such as three customizable views and five plugins options. Handy Shell takes over all functions of the S60 menu key, while adding extra options or disabling the unnecessary ones. The program enables the user to get all necessary information, including shortcuts to the most frequently used applications and contacts, at a glance. The full retail version of Handy Shell will be available for 44.95 USD (39.95 EUR) via download from http://www.penreader.com September 22, 2008. Handy Shell offers three options of “Today” screen for S60 smartphones. The “Today” view shows overall information about phone settings, ongoing calendar events, missed calls and SMS messages, new e-mails, weather forecast and even provides shortcuts to necessary applications using five types of Plugins. All Plugins can be moved around the screen, easily customized, or activated and deactivated. The “Applications” view provides fast access to twelve most needed applications. The “Contacts” view shows twelve favorite contacts with speed dial and SMS actions. In addition, Handy Shell includes a “Weather” Plugin with five-day weather forecast for the Today screen and a one-year subscription to the Handy Weather service. Handy Weather is the easiest and most reliable way of accessing local, as well as distant, weather information in Celsius and Fahrenheit – all in a mobile environment. The detailed five-day weather forecasts are supported by satellite weather maps and include four layouts: morning, day, evening and night. For user comfort, Handy Shell includes an advanced application launcher that allows shortcuts to the desired contacts or to launch applications from any of Shell’s view, simply by typing the first chracters of the phone or name on the Today screen. Handy Shell also provides complete integration with default phone applications. “Paragon Software Group develops programs that allow users to get most out of their mobile phones, customizing the device and adding more functionality and options according to the user’s individual needs,” said Dmitry Bekhterev, chief of sales and business development at Paragon Software Group. “The device’s active standby screen is the most frequently used and the most essential part of the user’s productivity on the device. With Handy Shell the user is in complete control over the screen’s menu by customizing it according to need.” For sales inquiries, please contact Paragon at corporate-sales@penreader.com or call 1-888-969-5282. Supported languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified PRC, Chinese Traditional Hong Kong, Chinese Traditional Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Ukrainian. About Paragon Software Group All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ### Press Contact: MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY NOW AVAILABLE FOR iPHONE & iPOD TOUCH IRVING, Calif. – September, 2008 - Paragon Software Group, the world’s leading software developer and content provider for mobile devices and desktop PCs, has launched Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, the best-selling college-level desk dictionary available on the market for iPhone and iPod touch. The most authoritative and comprehensive American English dictionary content and Paragon’s advanced SlovoEd engine have been combined to bring premium dictionary content to iPhone users directly on the mobile device screen. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary for iPhone is now available on the App Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/. The best-selling Collegiate Dictionary was tailor-made for the special characteristics and unique features of the iPhone. Merriam-Webster’s database contains 225,000 entries, including more than 10,000 new words and definitions, which can be accessed anywhere, any time, without Internet connection or additional charges. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary features an easy-to-use, single-click application to access definitions instantly. The SlovoEd engine compresses the dictionary content to a minimum of memory space while allowing the user to perform multiple learning, word reference and translation functions as quickly as possible, and to customize content by adding new translations and meanings. The “History” feature shows the last 15 translated words, and the “Cross-Lookup” feature is an easy check of language comprehension. Paragon Software Group offers a wide choice of more than 120 dictionaries for 30 languages, and the best dictionary content from world-famous publishers. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition for iPhone is available for $24.99 USD (19,99 EUR) from the App Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/. The program is supported by iPhones with firmware 2.0, iPhone 3G and iPod touch with firmware 2.0. All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated ###
Press Contact: New SlovoEd 7.0 Engine with Extremely Fast Browsing, Highly Compressed Content for its Talking E-Dictionary Series on Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs
MOSCOW, Russia – August 19, 2008 – Paragon Software Group, the leading software developer and content provider for mobile devices and PC desktops, releases the new SlovoEd 7.0 engine for its dictionary series on Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs, bringing mobile dictionary browsing to unprecedented levels of speed and accuracy while occupying a minimum amount of space on the device. Developed specifically for each type of hardware, the rich functionality of the SlovoEd dictionary can be enjoyed equally on either the Pocket PC or Windows Mobile smartphone without any loss of attributes. The SlovoEd series – from monolingual reference encyclopedias to bilingual translation dictionaries in 30 languages, including Chinese – offers a host of features and learning tools along with audio pronunciations for the most difficult words, which fits every learner’s level and learning style. Paragon’s technology makes it possible for mobile users around the globe to work and communicate in 30 languages even more easily, and, with licensed pre-installed software, SlovoEd increases the value and attractiveness of mobile devices to end users worldwide. Due to Paragon’s state-of-the-art SlovoEd 7.0 engine, the dictionaries' most comprehensive databases can now be browsed even more rapidly, making wireless translation for language learners of all levels effortless and extremely fast. The high compression capabilities of the engine minimize even the most comprehensive unabridged dictionaries, and can even be installed to memory cards in order to economize memory space on the device. The add-on sound module prerecorded by native speakers makes full use of mobile audio with the most difficult words in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, enabling the user to listen to pronunciations with live speech quality. With this handy tool you can do everything from looking up words in a dictionary, in any grammatical form and in any application running on the device, to finding a specific term in the email you received – all without switching between programs. All SlovoEd dictionaries are based on the most reliable linguistic databases, which have been developed through years of extensive research, coming directly from the world’s leading publishers such as Merriam-Webster, Oxford UP, Duden, PONS and Harrap, to name a few. The multilingual on-screen keyboard layout for 30 languages enables users to enter and translate words and letters in different languages, even if it is not supported by device. Users can look words up with wildcards ("*", "?", etc.) when the exact spelling is unknown, while the “Search History” saves a list of the last 30 translations. Special learning tools such as "Flash Cards" allow users to add new words to flash cards and test their knowledge as many times as desired. About Paragon Software Group All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ###
Paragon Software Group Launches First Series of Multilingual Talking PONS Dictionaries for iPhone and iPod Touch Best linguistic content, fastest definition look up through highly compressed SlovoEd application engine for newest-generation iPhones FREIBURG, Germany – August 11, 2008 – Paragon Software Group, the world’s leading software developer and content provider for mobile devices and desktop PCs, and PONS, well known for its green dictionaries and self study materials, have launched a series of multilingual dictionaries for iPhone and iPod Touch. The most reliable linguistic dictionary content from the 30-year publishing veteran PONS, and Paragon’s highly technologically advanced SlovoEd engine have been combined to bring premium traditional dictionary content to iPhone users directly on the mobile device screen beginning with the most popular titles – PONS Advanced English, PONS Advanced French and PONS Advanced Italian. Paragon's dictionaries under the SlovoEd engine allow iPhone users to take advantage of the iPhone's superb user interface, easy-to-use on-screen keyboard and many other device features, which work together to increase look-up speed even more over paper dictionaries. PONS dictionaries were tailor-made for the iPhone, keeping in mind all special characteristics and unique features of the device. The dictionary database is powered by PONS under the SlovoEd application engine and contains 117,171 entries, easily making it the best dictionary engine technology available on the market. No Internet connection is required – simply download the dictionary once and use it on the iPhone/iPod Touch without any additional expenses. Audio modules contain nearly 40,000 live voice pronunciations prerecorded by native speakers, and having them directly on the iPhone helps to improve pronunciation and ease the mastery of a new language. The “History” feature shows the last 15 translated words, and the “Cross-Lookup” feature is an easy check of language comprehension. The SlovoEd engine compresses the dictionary content to a minimum of memory space while allowing the user to perform multiple learning, word reference and translation functions as quickly as possible. The SlovoEd dictionary offers users a wide choice of more than 120 dictionaries for 30 languages, and the best dictionary content from such world-famous publishers. For more than 30 years, PONS has been developing hallmark green dictionaries and language courses for lifelong learning – for students, professional users, travelers and hobby linguists. Now, the dictionary content is available in a highly advanced technological format, allowing all dictionary users to save time and money while quickly and effortlessly obtaining the translation or word look-up directly on their mobile device wherever they go. The multilingual PONS dictionary series will be available for sale in summer 2008 for 24, 99 USD (19, 99 EUR) from the Apple Store at http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/. The programs are supported by iPhones with firmware 2.0, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch with firmware 2.0. About Paragon Software Group About PONS All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ###
Press Contact: Paragon Software Group and BB Softservice Corp. Bring Paragon’s Award-winning Handheld Technology to Japanese Market Localized Software Titles from Paragon are Now Available to Japanese Mobile Users through Local Japanese Online Channels FREIBURG, Germany – July 22, 2008 – Paragon Software Group, the leading developer of innovative software applications for mobile devices and PC desktops, announces partnership with BB Softservice Corp., Japan's leading software and service provider and a subsidiary of Japan-based SoftBank group. The partnership will enable Japanese mobile users to download Paragon's leading software titles directly through BB Softservice's local online channel – BBSoft Direct Mobile Application, and will allow Paragon to provide convenient local availability and support. With this strategic partnership, Paragon Software Group will be able to reinforce its position in the region with faster, more reliable and more responsive service to its Japanese customers. The product line will include Paragon's personal productivity utilities, such as Handy Taskman, Handy Weather, Handy Profiles, Handy Keylock, Handy Expense, Handy Converter and Handy Calculator. All Paragon products will be localized and customized for Japanese mobile users, allowing them to get the most out of their mobile experience. Paragon's coming product releases will include full Japanese interface to enable Japanese customers the most comfort in their native language. “We understand the complexity of the Japanese market, and begin our entry through an experienced local partner. This partnership demonstrates our commitment to providing Japanese customers with the maximum in customized mobile solutions through usual shopping, ordering and support processes. In addition, we are committed to customizing existing product titles in many ways, and to developing a series of entirely new products tailored specifically to Japanese mobile phone users,“ said Dmitry Bekhterev, chief of sales and business development at Paragon Software Group. BB Softservice continues to provide its customers with applications useful for business and daily life through collaboration with vendors worldwide. BB Softservice's value-add strategy of enlarging the smartphone market by improving the usefulness of smartphones in the region is helping the company become the primary Japanese smartphone application portal site. BB Softservice offers its customers not only the most convenient way of shopping, but the finest support through their local customer phone service. “Paragon collaborated intensely with BB Softservice to help bring the best possible mobile computing experience to Japan,” added Shintaro Taki, President of BB Softservice. “We look forward to adding value to our partnership with future enrichment of product variety from Paragon available in Japanese.” About Paragon Software Group About BB Softservice Corp. About BBSoft Direct Mobile Application All products, service and company names mentioned in the release are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. ### |
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