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Babylon Ltd. and Language Engineering Company (LEC) Announce Their Commitment to Continue Offering Innovative Machine Translation Services
OR YEHUDA, Israel and BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd. (TASE: BBYL), the leading provider of single-click translation and dictionary software, and Language Engineering Company (LEC) of Boston MA announced today the renewal of their agreement. LEC will continue to provide Babylon with its online simple text translation services throughout 2009. Babylon currently integrates LEC's high-speed automated translation solution Passport Premium. Passport Premium is an LEC Enterprise product, which provides Babylon customers with real-time machine translation of 22 languages with 340 language pairs. ''Babylon dictionary and translation solutions are currently installed on over 50 million desktops around the world," said Tal Shaked, Babylon's Director of Business Development. "Through our commitment to both exceed our customer's expectations and surpass market demands, we have added text translation services to our solutions. LEC helps Babylon to deliver the best dictionary and translation solutions available anywhere." "Every day, every year the Internet continues to grow; and with it the increased demand for translation services," said LEC's CEO Glenn Akers. "LEC's is proud to provide Passport Premium translation technology to Babylon's online global offerings, and we look forward to another year of continued success for both companies." About Babylon Babylon.com (TASE: BBYL) is a leading provider of online dictionary and translation solutions. The Babylon.com user base exceeds 50 million desktop installations. Babylon sold more than 2 Million licenses of the software to private users and organizations in more than 200 countries. For more information about Babylon, visit http://www.babylon.com About Language Engineering Company (LEC): Since 1985, LEC's award winning translation software has helped millions of users around the world communicate, instantly and accurately. With translation services in addition to software, LEC provides full service translation solutions for both consumers and any size business. For more information about LEC, please visit: www.LEC.com Press Contact For Babylon Ltd. Dalia Preisler dalia@babylon.com Tel: +972-3-5382148 For LEC LLC. Marijane Shufro marijaneshufro@gmail.com Tel: +1-603-827-2900
