FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Babylon Ltd. and LEC Partner on Secure
Full-Text Translation for Corporations
Provides Enterprises with Fully-Secure Multilingual Communications
Waltham, MA, July 22, 2007 – Language Engineering Company (LEC) announced that Babylon Ltd. will provide its security-critical corporate customers with intraLAN installations of LEC’s multilingual translation servers. The onsite hosting deal allows Babylon to provide its large-volume corporate customers to host LEC’s translation engines locally on their own enterprise server environments. Babylon’s retail customers already enjoy LEC’s remote server-farm-based translation engines for more than a year, getting full-text translation results in a single Babylon click in 17 languages.
“Advanced, high-accuracy translation capabilities and ongoing economic globalization continue to make machine translation a central tool for day-to-day corporate interactions,” said LEC founder and CEO, Dr. Glenn Akers. “With LEC's servers installed behind the secure firewall of an enterprise LAN, Babylon’s global customers can freely exchange sensitive text that is automatically translated, without needing to transmit over the public Internet.”
Under LEC’s standard online reseller service model, LEC-owned translation server farms are accessed via the Internet, with translation requests sent and returned in XML for maximum application compatibility. Used by OEMs, system integrators and corporate developers worldwide to develop translation applications and services, LEC’s translation servers are the most accurate, fast, extensive, and cost-effective language translation systems in the world.
“Some of our global enterprise customers are already benefiting from the context-accurate translations provided by LEC's remote-access translation servers,” said Tal Shaked, Babylon’s Director of Business Development. “We now have the capability to offer LEC’s enterprise-class translation servers as a local installation onsite, allowing us to solve any privacy and security concerns that large corporate customers might have.”
About Language Engineering Company, LLC (LEC)
Established in 1985, LEC is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. LEC is the world’s leading provider of high-accuracy, rule-based translation software and services, with direct and OEM distribution of its products in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. LEC’s OEM and republisher partners include Cross Language and LogoVista in Japan, Topics Entertainment in North America, Avanquest and Softissimo in Europe, and Babylon. More than 3 million users worldwide use LEC rule-based translation engines for multilingual communications and applications in 21 different languages. For more information about LEC products, please visit LEC’s website
About Babylon Ltd.
Babylon (TASE: BBYL) is the leading provider of single-click translation and information access solutions. Babylon’s version 6 desktop software is available for private individuals as well as corporations. Babylon offers add-on premium content from world-renowned dictionary publishers, including Oxford University Press, Britannica, Merriam-Webster, Larousse, Vox, Langenscheidt, Pons, Van Dale, Melhoramentos and Taishukan. Babylon 6 also offers single click results from Wikipedia encyclopedia in 13 languages. The Babylon user base exceeds 35 million desktop installations. Babylon corporate customers include industry leaders such as Avnet, Daimler Chrysler, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu Siemens, Gillette/Braun, IBM, John Deere, Lufthansa, Motorola, Nestlé France, Océ, Petrobras, Philips, UBS, Xerox and many more. Babylon 6 is fully compatible with Windows Vista. For more information about Babylon, visit
Contacts:
Dr. Glenn Akers, CEO
Language Engineering Company, LLC
135 Beaver Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452 USA
(781) 642 8900
Tlalit Prescher
Babylon Ltd.
+972-3-538-2102
Karen Quatromoni
Rainier Corporation on behalf of LEC
(978) 464-5302 x150
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