Basis Technology Takes Intranets.com to Japan; First Free Intranet Solution Localized for World's Second Largest Market.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the premier provider of internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation services and technology, announced today that it delivered the software internationalization and localization "Internationalization" redirects here. This term may also refer to the establishment of an independent free city. In computing, Internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures. expertise for Intranets.com to launch in Japan. Intranets.com delivers the world's first free intranet portals for small- and medium-sized businesses and organizations. Its services include free hosting, custom URLs, document sharing See data conferencing. , calendar scheduling, vendor services and more. Intranets.co.jp offers collaboration and communication tools similar to those in the US version, but with localized Japanese content, support and services. Basis Technology's cultural and linguistic proficiencies were integral in translating and re-engineering Intranets.com's site for the Japanese market. Basis Technology also provided the engineering expertise that enables the large database-backed portal to input, display and process multi-byte Japanese text. "Intranets.com has broken new ground in the US with its free intranet portal," said Steve Cohen For other persons with a similar name, see . Stephen Ira "Steve" Cohen (born May 24, 1949) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee's ninth district. , executive vice president of Basis Technology. "We are pleased to play a leading role in taking these services to businesses in Japan, the world's second largest market. We welcome Intranets.com to a growing list of e-commerce leaders who have chosen to go global with Basis Technology." "The launch of Intranets.com in Japan is a significant step forward in our global expansion," said Tim Peacock, vice president of engineering at Intranets.com. "Basis Technology provided the crucial cultural and technical expertise that enabled us to enter this foreign market quickly and confidently." Intranets.co.jp is already used by more than 6,000 small businesses in Japan, and features merchants providing exclusive vending services, including ZDNet.co.jp, Dell Computer Corp., Hitachi and Epson. About Intranets.com Intranets.com, an idealab! Venture, delivers the world's first free intranet portals for small- and medium-sized businesses and organizations. With free hosting and custom URLs for all organizations, Intranets.com provides users with everything they need at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. -- from must-have collaboration applications to industry news, to vendor services. Intranets.com helps thousands of organizations worldwide improve collaboration and increase efficiencies. Privately-held Intranets.com is one of the most recent businesses to spawn from idealab!, the nation's leading Internet incubator. Intranets.com is based in Woburn, Massachusetts Woburn (/'wu.bə(r)n/) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 37,258 at the 2000 census. Woburn is the birthplace of Anglo-American scientist Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. with European headquarters in the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.intranets.com, e-mail webmaster@intranets.com, or call 888-932-2600 or 781-932-0960. About Basis Technology Basis Technology is the leading provider of internationalization technology and services for Internet companies and global enterprises. The company specializes in software re-engineering services for Unicode compliance, and offers a wide range of cross-platform software components that deliver off-the-shelf solutions to problems commonly encountered in internationalization projects. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Rosette Rosette D’Albert’s pliable, versatile, talented, acknowledged bedmate. [Fr. Lit.: Mademoiselle de Maupin. Magill I, 542–543] See : Courtesanship (language) Rosette - A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. , is the leading cross-platform library for Unicode, the rapidly emerging international standard for software that handles multiple languages. More than twenty top-tier Web software publishers, search engines, and portals have adopted Rosette as the core of their globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation strategy. Basis Technology is the only Web internationalization company that is also a full member of the Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization that coordinates Unicode's development, has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes . Basis Technology's staff of multilingual professionals is veteran of more than one hundred software and Web internationalization projects. The company works closely with its customers to maximize the opportunities offered by rapidly expanding global markets. Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , with a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 617-252-5636. |
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