ALPNET announces partnership with Europe Online.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 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 it has reached agreement with Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). Online to provide on-line translation services through
Europe Online, when the service premiers on December 15, 1995.
Jaap van der Meer Van der Meer is a Dutch surname that simply means the phrase 'from the lake' in English. Many years ago, descendants would have lived from a lake in the Netherlands which is how the name first originated. , ALPNET vice president of Marketing and Sales stated, "We believe this partnership is a very important and strategic step for both ALPNET and Europe Online. Making our services available via Europe Online is an important part of ALPNET's plan to make easy to use, high quality translation services available to a broad base of clients. ALPNET believes the number of knowledge workers, those using desktop computer systems connected to networks, will increase dramatically, and these users will have an increasing need to produce or utilize materials in multiple languages. By making ALPNET services available directly on their workstation via Europe Online, we eliminate the wasted time and effort needed in getting materials translated in the traditional, logistically manual, way." Mr. Van der Meer continued by saying "When Europe Online goes live, users throughout Europe will be able to use the network through local phone access points all across the major cities in Europe. ALPNET will have a easy to use visual interface whereby clients can submit jobs directly to ALPNET without having to look up phone numbers, leave messages, get quotations, and worry about sending and receiving materials. We believe this ease of use will be an exciting step forward for both existing, and new ALPNET clients." Mrs. Cassandra Matthews, Content Acquisition Director for Europe Online said "One of the fundamentals in Europe Online's strategic implementation plans is the availability of broad based on-line services in multiple languages. An important part of our overall plan is having a quality provider of language translation services available on Europe Online at the initial roll out in early 1996. We are pleased to make ALPNET services part of our standard product, and are confident in ALPNET's ability to provide broad based languages services to all of our users throughout Europe." ALPNET is a worldwide supplier of translation services, with 26 offices in 10 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 multi-lingual 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. Europe Online is the premier multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. , multimedia, mass-consumer online service made by and for Europeans offering a wide range of content of national and local interest in the respective national languages. Its service is based on a private network and on open-systems and open platform technology, thus combining the security, the fast access as well as the structured, well-selected, hand-crafted and managed content of online services with the technological potential of the World Wide Web, e.g. sound, video, animation, chat. Europe Online is based in Luxembourg with subsidiaries in Germany, France and Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. . CONTACT: ALPNET Inc., Salt Lake City D. Kerry Stubbs, Vice President of Finance 801/265-3300 |
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