Transclick Connects Individuals and Communities in the Wireless World


NEW YORK, March 28 / - Transclick, the e-Tech 2007 award winner on March 28, 2007 at CTIA Wireless for 1st prize in the enterprise solutions category, announces the availability of a new translation service designed for BlackBerry® from Research In Motion (RIM). The Transclick Email Translation Tool for BlackBerry allows a BlackBerry user to communicate with people regardless of personal language background and without cumbersome manual or digital translation dictionaries. Whether your goal is to maximize global business productivity or enhance a personal travel experience, Transclick's translation service minimizes the frustration, confusion and complexity of communicating with people when you don't speak the same language.

Transclick Email Translation Tool for BlackBerry, which won a Grand Prize Winner in the 2006 BlackBerry Developer Productivity Tools Challenge, is a simple to use translation tool that connects with the Transclick service and can be applied to any outgoing email or SMS message from the BlackBerry handset. With a simple click of the menu button, BlackBerry users can have their message translated into one of the sixteen available language pairs. The design of the interface makes it easy for a user to navigate, and the tool only needs to be downloaded once.

"This solution for BlackBerry delivers on our mission of leveraging the best language technologies to translate messages for the global tourist or business traveler, the hospitality industry, hospitals, first responders, border-control agencies and globally integrated suppliers and buyers of goods and services," said Robert Levin, CEO and founder of Transclick, Inc. "Launching this capability is very exciting to us because of its simplicity and convenience to Transclick users. The installation process is very simple, with no desktop computer required. And since BlackBerry handsets support industry standard Java(TM), the capability for additional applications to integrate with Transclick are really limitless. "

Transclick enables business and leisure users to maximize productivity and communicate effectively and seamlessly, whether they are communicating from an airport lounge or hotel concierge desk in Moscow, Buenos Aires or Tokyo. The service is currently available in: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Solution Features & Benefits:

o Automated virtual real-time language translation*;
o Current support for 16 language pairs;
o Support for 150 vertical market dictionaries;
o Translation speed of up to 400 characters per second;
o Download client software over-the-air for quick installation.

Supported BlackBerry Handsets:

Transclick Email Translation Tool for BlackBerry will run on:
o BlackBerry Pearl(TM)
o BlackBerry 8700 Series
o BlackBerry 7290
o BlackBerry 7230

About Transclick:
Transclick is a wireless web services infrastructure company enabling customers to communicate via email, text or instant messaging with real-time language translation in 16 languages from any mobile phone, corporate enterprise portal or wireless PDA. Transclick is post-revenue with Qualcomm, Verizon Wireless, the US Army; 2006: 30+ carriers.

To download Transclick designed for BlackBerry, visit http://www.transclick.com/.

* Transclick can achieve 80 to 100% accuracy for word choice. Results vary
according to dictionary used and accuracy of input. There is no
guarantee of human-quality translation. Transclick enhances but does not
replace the quality of human translation.

Source: Transclick

CONTACT: Robert Levin, of Transclick, +1-212-751-5150 ext.4

Web site: http://www.transclick.com/

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