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[15.02.2010] Paragon Software Group Announces Beta Premium Bilingual & Explanatory Dictionary Series from the World’s Top Publishers for bada
Mobile World Congress, SPAIN – February,15, 2010 – Paragon Software Group, a leading software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, announces Beta versions of its best-in-class authoritative bilingual and explanatory dictionaries in their original content for bada-based smartphones, including titles from Larousse Editorial, S.L., Merriam-Webster Inc., PONS GmbH, and other top worldwide publishers. The world’s most trusted dictionaries – winning six world awards in 2009 alone – have been fully optimized for the new bada platform and will be showcased by Samsung at Mobile World Congress 2010.

[05.02.2010] Paragon Software Launches Six Most Popular Explanatory and Bilingual Merriam-Webster’s Dictionaries for Android Phones
Mobile World Congress, SPAIN – February, 2010 – Paragon Software Group, a leading software developer for mobile devices and desktop PCs, has launched the series of Merriam-Webster’s bilingual and explanatory dictionaries for Android phones. The product line includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition; Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged; Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionar; Merriam-Webster’s Pocket; The Merriam-Webster Dictionary; Merriam-Webster's English-French Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's English-Spanish Dictionary. The original dictionary titles from America’s foremost publisher were adapted for the mobile screen and supplemented with the new functionality providing fastest definition look-up, audio pronunciations, finger-friendly interface, ‘Search by Voice’ option (enabled by Google), ‘Word of the Day’ widget and search option directly on the Home screen. Paragon’s advanced SlovoEd engine compresses even the weightiest content to minimal memory space. The traditional printed version of Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, for example, weighs in at 12.5 pounds (5,6 kg), has 2,662 pages and measures 4 inches (10,2 cm) thick, but occupies just ~750 Кb on your tiny mobile device.