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[30.11.2009] Paragon Software Group and Sony Ericsson Partner to Offer Premium Dictionaries and Reference Works, Travel and Personal Time Management Utilities, as well as Mobile Games at Sony Ericsson PlayNow Arena
FREIBURG, Germany – November, 2009 – Paragon Software Group, the leading mobile software developer, announced that they have signed a partnership agreement with Sony Ericsson to offer Paragon’s mobile applications through Sony Ericsson’s on-device applications store PlayNow™ arena. Sony Ericsson customers will now be able to personalize their phones even more with a wide range of authoritative reference applications, multilingual ‘talking’ dictionaries in more than 30 languages, popular utility programs for travel and personal time management, and mobile games.

[20.11.2009] Paragon Software Group Releases Bilingual VOX Dictionaries for iPhone and iPod touch, S60, Windows Mobile and Android-Based Smartphones
FREIBURG, Germany – November, 2009 – Paragon Software Group, the leading software developer of electronic dictionaries for mobile devices and desktop PCs, releases four ‘talking’ bilingual dictionaries – VOX Spanish-English Dictionary, VOX French-Spanish Dictionary, VOX Italian-Spanish Dictionary and VOX Catalan-Spanish Dictionary for smartphones. Linguistic databases are provided by the leading reference publisher – Larousse Editorial, S.L. The dictionaries contain all varieties of European and Latin American Spanish along with extensive coverage of English, French, Italian and Catalan languages, while Paragon's SlovoEd engine compresses the dictionary content to a minimum of memory space at the same time allowing the user to perform multiple learning and word reference functions as quickly as possible.

[12.11.2009] Translate while you text, tweet and blog using your iPhone and iPod touch with the easy-to-use Harrap’s ‘Talking’ French-English & English-French Dictionary
FREIBURG, Germany – November, 2009 – Paragon Software Group, the leading software developer of electronic dictionaries for desktop PCs and smartphones, has just released the ‘talking’ Harrap’s English-French & French-English Dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch devices (also, available for Android, BlackBerry, Java, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS). The dictionary is based on the original Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary, the most popular dictionary in the French-speaking world. Harrap’s comprehensive and up-to-date words and translations accompanied by real English and French voice pronunciations, grammar tips, multiple usage samples, learning tools, and free online content updates – provide a new model for dictionaries developed for mobile devices.

[09.11.2009] The Al-Mawrid Al-Qareeb Bidirectional English-Arabic Dictionary from the Oldest Arabic Publisher Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin Now Speaks on the Smartphone
FREIBURG, Germany – November, 2009 – Paragon Software Group, the leading software developer of electronic dictionaries for desktop PCs and smartphones, has launched the ‘talking’ Al-Mawrid Al-Qareeb Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionary for the latest series of Windows Mobile devices and iPhone/iPod touch (Symbian S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition versions were released in summer 2009). The most comprehensive coverage of vocabulary in the Arabic-speaking world now comes directly from the oldest and largest publishing and distribution house of Arabic books and educational materials – Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin – available in an easy-to-carry format directly on the mobile phone screen.