ALPNET "goes live" with Europe Online.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1995--ALPNET, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AILP AILP Associazione Italiana Lavoratori e Pensionati (Italian Retired Persons Association) AILP Application-Initiated Lightpath Provisioning ), the largest dedicated commercial provider of language translation and related services to businesses, today announced its partnership with Europe Online has been implemented and ALPNET is now available on Europe Online. Thomas F. Seal, ALPNET president and chief executive officer, stated, "As of today, all of ALPNET's worldwide services and offices are available to users of Europe Online. In addition, through Europe Online's bi-directional interface to the Internet, ALPNET is also available to anyone connected to the Internet, worldwide. Making ALPNET services available via Europe Online and the Internet is an important first step in ALPNET's strategic plan to make easy to use, high quality, in-country translation services available to anyone who has access to a computer and a modem. We believe a major factor in the explosive growth of the Internet is bringing information and services to people's desks, in an easy-to-use format, and that is what ALPNET's offering is designed to do." Seal continued by saying "Europe Online is an online service developed and run by Europeans, primarily for Europeans. In Europe, the issue of language is well understood as vital to successful commercial enterprises. This is why Europe Online has implemented a truly multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. online service, and why they selected ALPNET as their exclusive translation partner, and provider. The initial ALPNET offering is limited to information about ALPNET and the services we offer, as well as the ability to communicate directly with ALPNET offices worldwide. However, the nature of online services is dynamic, and ALPNET will be adding capabilities and offerings to its online service every week. Early in 1996, we anticipate clients will be able to place orders directly through the service, and as ALPNET fully implements its online service later in 1996, clients will be able to obtain information, receive quotes, submit work, check status, receive the completed work, and pay for it, all directly via the net." ALPNET indicated that users of Europe Online can find ALPNET services directly on the Europe Online International Reference page, and Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f can connect using NetScape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. 2 on the World Wide Web at http://www.EuropeOnline.Com. ALPNET is a worldwide supplier of translation services, with 29 offices in 13 countries throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia. ALPNET supplies its customers with translation, product localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , international project management, interpretation, language training and multilingual desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, services. CONTACT: ALPNET, Inc. D. Kerry Stubbs, 801/265-3300 801/265-3310 (Fax) Email: Info@ALPNET.COM |
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