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Technology Stocks : Accent Softwr (acntf): Addressing Huge Multilingual Mkt?

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To: Philip H. Lee who wrote ()12/11/1997 12:47:00 PM
From: Ryan Weisman   of 356
 
Down to $1 a share, thinking about investing; anyone still here...

MILAN, Italy, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Accent Software International
(Nasdaq: ACNTF) today announced it has entered a marketing agreement with
Tomorrow's Technology Today of Italy to distribute WordPoint(TM), a real time
interactive dictionary for bi-directional language translations.

"WordPoint is the perfect product for the European marketplace. The fact
that Utilities are becoming more-and-more popular combined with WordPoint's
impressive dictionaries and thesauruses makes it a million dollar product over
here," explained Roberto Donelli, general director, Tomorrow's Technology
Today.

Tomorrow's Technology Today's first phase of distribution includes
150,000 licenses through OEMs, ISPs and a republishing agreement to include
WordPoint in magazines at newsstands, Italy's largest software distribution
channel. Tomorrow's Technology Today provides duplication, sales and
marketing fulfillment as well as OEM and retail distribution for software
distribution in Europe.

"We are very excited about this agreement. WordPoint is the ideal tool
for companies and individuals that work internationally. The-on-the-fly
translation with WordPoint provides an accurate and immediate translation for
today's fast paced society," said Bob Antoniazzi, project manager. "Accent
has always understood the desire for multilingual computing, WordPoint is the
first tool of its kind that fills the void. As such, we are currently working
on deals in other European and Asian countries."

WordPoint performs real time interactive translations while browsing the
World Wide Web. In addition to Italian, WordPoint performs instantaneous
translations of English, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch; and now provides
Hebrew translations. Additional languages will be added in the months to
come.

WordPoint can be used in conjunction with virtually any other application
running under Windows 95. Words on the Web using any popular browser, word
processing documents in the application of your choice, presentations and more
can now be instantly translated word-by-word using Accent's patent pending
Screen-Text(TM) recognition technology.

WordPoint is available from several popular Web software download sites.
Visit Accent's Web site: www.accentsoft.com for a complete listing of Web
site addresses. WordPoint will also be available as an OEM product from
leading hardware and software vendors.

System Requirements

WordPoint 1.3 requires a 486 processor or above, English, European, or
Hebrew Windows 95, 16 MB of RAM, 17 MB of hard disk space.

About Accent Software International Ltd.

Accent Software International Ltd. is a provider of software language
solutions for the language information technology market. Accent products
support more than 30 languages and enables other software products to support
global language issues. In addition, Internet automation products are offered
through its subsidiary, AgentSoft Ltd. Products and services are provided
through direct, OEM and retail channels in most regions of the world. Accent
Software was founded in 1988. AgentSoft was established in 1996.
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