Internet With An Accent extends language capabilities with the addition of Japanese, Chinese and Korean; Accent Software expands its strategy to reach the rapidly growing Asian net user community; Accent's multilingual plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 adds new language capability to Netscape Browser.JERUSALEM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 1996--Accent Software International Ltd. (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 :ACNTF) announced today that its multilingual Internet solution, Internet With An Accent(TM), now provides language support for Japanese (Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. , Hiragana (Japanese) hiragana - The cursive formed Japanese kana syllabary. Hiragana is mostly used for grammatical particles, verb-inflection, and Japanese words which are not written in kanji or which are too difficult for an educated person to read or write in kanji. , Katagana and Romanji), Chinese (Simple and Traditional), and Korean (Hangeoul). These new capabilities are being unveiled at Spring Internet World in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , CA on April 30-May 3. Internet With An Accent is a suite of applications that offers users the ability to browse, publish and read content in over 30 languages under any language version of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Robert Rosenschein, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , stated, "Our new Asian language offering significantly expands the potential market size for Accent's products. Internet With An Accent gives Asian multinationals a single solution for their Internet and worldwide Intranet applications. For the first time, anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to browse Web sites published in any of these languages." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Asia Pacific Ventures, an international venture capital company based in Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , CA, Japan alone has more than 60 million subscriber lines for a population of 120 million, making it the second largest telecommunications market in the world. In addition, the Japanese have experienced more success with ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. high capacity fiber optic lines than in the U.S. and there are now some 3,000,000 on-line users in a marketplace growing by 14% per month, with the majority using the Internet for e-mail applications and surfing. Accent also introduced its new multilingual plug-in for 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. 2.0. The plug-in will be available for downloading from Accent's Home Page in early May 1996. The Accent Multilingual Mosaic plug-in adds new language capability to the Netscape browser See Netscape. , enabling users, for the first time, to read Web pages without localized versions of Netscape Navigator or Windows. The Multilingual plug-in is installed with Netscape Navigator and works within the Navigator window. When the user comes across a Web site authored in a language not supported by that localized version of Netscape, the user activates the plug-in with a single click. The plug-in will display the page correctly within the Navigator window in the language in which it was authored. "Internet With An Accent's plug-in delivers access to previously unreadable Web sites, plus new ease-of-use and functionality to Netscape Navigator 2.0," stated Mr. Rosenschein. Mr. Rosenschein added that Accent's plug-in will also enable Netscape users to browse pages which contain two or more languages which would normally have incompatible character sets, such as Russian and Japanese. "Without the plug-in, Netscape users would be able to read only one of the languages, while the other language would be indecipherable," elaborated Rosenschein. With a suggested retail price of $99.00, Internet With An Accent includes four multilingual applications - Accent Multilingual Mosaic, Accent Multilingual Publisher, Accent Multilingual MailPad and Accent Multilingual Viewer. Accent products run on any language version of Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 3.1 or higher, or Windows 95, using at least a 386 PC with a minimum of four MB of RAM and a minimum of six MB of disk space. Accent Software International Ltd. designs and develops multilingual Internet and word processing software products for retail, corporate, educational, government and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers, and markets these products in more than 30 countries. Founded in 1988, Accent Software International Ltd. is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. The Company also recently formed a new subsidiary, AgentSoft, Ltd., which focuses on the development and marketing of sophisticated agent software products for the Internet and enterprise Intranet. Accent, Internet With An Accent is a trademark of Accent Software International Ltd. All other trademarks are owned by their respective manufacturers. CONTACT: ACCENT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LTD. Norman Kreger Director Corporate Communications 011-972-2-793-723, ext. 243 Internet: Normank@accentsoft.com Home Page Address: http://www.accentsoft.com Spring Internet World Booth #A504 or WOLFE AXELROD ASSOCIATES Mona J. Walsh Joel Herskovits Gordon H. Wolfe Barbara Yu (Media) 212-370-4500, 212-370-4505 (FAX) e-mail: 76015.440@compuserve.com |
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