Lycos and Basis Technology Announce Globalization Alliance; Basis Technology helps bring Lycos to Japan and Korea.WALTHAM, Mass. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 1999-- Lycos, 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 :LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the fastest growing Internet portal and the world's largest online community, and Basis Technology, the leading provider of 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 solutions to e-businesses and software companies, today announced an alliance that strengthens Lycos' international presence. Basis Technology provides Lycos with software and services needed to bring Lycos.com to Japan and Korea. The LycosJapan search engine uses Basis Technology's 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. , a C++ class library for Unicode, which enables multilingual text handling. Since its release, Lycos Japan has consistently ranked among the top five Japanese search engines. "In our push to go global, we needed to find a company capable of delivering solutions for handling all the languages used on the Web," said David Andre, vice president of product development at Lycos. "Basis Technology has the right combination of engineering experience, cultural awareness and software components needed to enable the 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 of Lycos.com to the Japanese and Korean markets. We have also been impressed with Basis' level of service in their responsiveness to our needs and on time delivery." "This alliance represents a significant step in Lycos' evolution as a global company, and we are proud to work with Lycos as they expand their business into the Asian market," says Carl Hoffman, president of Basis Technology. "With Basis' linguistic technologies to handle the complexities of Asian text, and Rosette to process multilingual Web text, Lycos now has the ability to rapidly deploy its technologies on a worldwide scale." Basis Technology's Rosette enables software and Internet companies to quickly add Unicode compliance to their applications. The Unicode standard is a coherent, universal character set promoted by both ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. and an industry consortium, which includes Lycos, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and Basis Technology. It is among the most significant technology developments of the last decade affecting global enterprises. Incorporating Unicode into client-server applications and multilingual Web sites offers dramatic cost savings over older approaches, as well as faster time-to-market. Using Unicode, a single source can be deployed across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. and languages. With Rosette, Lycos and Basis were able to rapidly develop a Unicode-enabled search engine, which is now a key component in Lycos' Asian search engines. In order to perform searches for Web pages, each word of every Web page must be carefully indexed. However, since many Asian languages are traditionally written without spaces between every word, the text must be parsed into individual words. Basis' Morphological Analyzer provides the technology to break up text into indexable units for Lycos' code to process. About Lycos Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS) is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching one out of every two Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services and a comprehensive shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , Webmonkey, Suck.com and MyTime.com. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), "Your Personal Internet Guide," is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence 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. About Basis Technology Basis Technology is the leading provider of multilingual software and services to Internet and software companies seeking to reach international markets and capture the growing opportunities offered by the global Internet. Leveraging the specialized knowledge and technical depth of its staff of multilingual project managers, engineers, testers and translators, Basis Technology delivers proven solutions that reduce time-to-market and minimize the cost and risk of expanding into global markets. Basis Technology delivers these solutions with a combination of cross-platform Unicode products, a suite of linguistic tools for Asian text manipulation, and an array of services, including consulting for globalizing software applications, re-engineering code for Unicode compliance, multilingual software testing Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such , consulting on Asian business practices, and software 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. . Areas of expertise and experience include high volume Web services, e-commerce applications, client-server systems, development tools, data management, and document management systems. Founded in 1994, Basis Technology is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has offices in San Francisco and Tokyo. For more information, visit the company at http://www.basistech.com/, or call 1-617-252-5636. (c)1999 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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