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Irvine, Calif. May, 2007 Smart Link Corporation announced the launch of the ImTranslator.com portal that is packed with new features. Completely redesigned and re-thought. No more annoying popup windows or ads. You can now enjoy all our applications from one convenient location. Improved dictionaries now contain all the suggested words/translations that we have received from our users. Resizable layout along with the option to remember your last text entry allows you to come back to your work and edit it later. Many improvements have been done to ImTranslator functionality with Firefox.

Smart Link Corporation focused its efforts on designing the most convenient and innovative service to accommodate its users from around the globe. Great effort is given to implementing features that are most demanded by our users. The new portal ImTranslator.com is the culmination of our expertise, previous achievements and a new Web 2.0 design. It offers the most convenient way of accessing our services.

About Smart Link Corporation

Founded in 1993, Smart Link Corporation has established itself as a high quality developer and publisher of multilingual software products and web-based solutions. Since 2000, the company has focused on designing a complete, yet affordable, business solution for multilingual communications by developing and integrating innovative language technologies in the Internet and Intranet environments.

In June 2000 we launched our first online translation service Promt-Online at www.translation2.paralink.com. Promt-Online, powered by PROMT Translation Engine became one of the most popular destinations for people who needed to communicate in different languages.

During the next 6 years Smart Link developed unique multilingual web-based tools including virtual keyboard, online spell-checker, decoder, dictionary, and implemented these tools into new online services:

• March 2000: Multilingual Online Dictionary
• September 2001: ImTranslator for Windows
• June 2002: Online Virtual Keyboard
• August 2003: Multilingual Online Spell Checker
• September 2003: ImTranslator - Plug-in for Internet Explorer
• February 2004: ImTranslator - Promt Online
• September 2005: ImTranslator.net
• February 2006: ImTranslator Multilingual Search
• March 2006: ImTranslator - Extension for Firefox

These sites serve over 3 million unique visitors every month, and take the highest positions on search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AltaVista.

Web: ImTranslator.com, www.imtranslator.net, www.smartlinkcorp.com

About PROMT

PROMT is a world leading provider of machine translation technologies. The company was established in 1991 and its expertise spans over 15 years of machine translation technologies development. Combining the innovation and technological perfection, PROMT has developed the revolutionary machine translation (MT) technology and became the technological leader in MT industry.

At the present time PROMT provides the full range of translation solutions: machine translation systems and services, dictionaries, translation memory and data mining systems for all kinds of business, professionals and Internet/Intranet. The new translation software product line @promt consists of a wide range of sophisticated software products and solutions and ensures the highest quality and efficiency of translation processes.

PROMT customers appreciate its continued commitment to the research and investment in the fields of linguistics and Natural Language Processing: PROMT has customers spanning consumer, SME and enterprise markets, including global industry leaders Xerox, SAP, Lukoil, General Motors, Volvo Car International, Deloitte and Touch and etc

Web: www.e-promt.com, www.online-translator.com

Irvine, Calif. August, 2006 - Smart Link Corporation and PROMT Ltd. - the leading providers of innovative multilingual technologies - announced that AOL has chosen ImTranslator powered by PROMT® Translation Server for AOL Research and Learn's online reference area. Through the partnership, ImTranslator will provide AOL with advanced ImTranslator tools, such as multilingual Spell-checker, Virtual Keyboard, Russian language Decoder.

PROMT's high quality of translation and large dictionary size has been pivotal in contributing to its swift adoption by end users and the machine translation industry. Smart Link Corporation, an official partner of PROMT in US since 1994, was the first to introduce this technology to US market.

The project with AOL is not the first instance of PROMT translation technology's entrance into the US market. In autumn 2005 NASA has installed PROMT® translation systems onboard of the International Space Station and on astronauts' mobile PCs.

"One of the key targets of our company is enabling the users around the globe to have easy communication with each other, with our software being the bridge between the people of different cultures and languages. PROMT software is the reference in Machine Translation industry for its quality, and we are pleased that AOL users are now able to benefit from it", - Ilia Klimakov said, Director for Overseas Markets, PROMT.

"As the Web changes and evolves, so do its users. It is no longer viable to have your visitors look up words, spell check and translate - each on a different site. Our centralized hub of tools provides an easier reference experience for the user", - Sophia Ouzdin said, Head of Marketing, Smart Link Corporation.

About Smart Link Corporation

Founded in 1993, Smart Link Corporation is a developer, publisher and distributor of multilingual software products and web-based solutions. Since 2000, the company has focused on designing a complete, yet affordable business solution for multilingual communications by developing and integrating innovative language technologies in the Internet and Intranet environments.

During the 13 years of operation, Smart Link Corporation expanded its client base tens of thousands of customers from 65 countries: among them International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, NATO, US government agencies, top banking and financial organizations, and leading academic institutions.

In 1999 Smart Link Corporation was granted the status of a government supplier and awarded the Federal Supply Schedule contract by the General Services Administration.

Web: www.imtranslator.net, www.smartlinkcorp.com

About PROMT

PROMT is a world leading provider of machine translation technologies. The company was established in 1991 and its expertise spans over 15 years of machine translation technologies development. Combining the innovation and technological perfection, PROMT has developed the revolutionary machine translation (MT) technology and became the technological leader in MT industry.

At the present time PROMT provides the full range of translation solutions: machine translation systems and services, dictionaries, translation memory and data mining systems for all kinds of business, professionals and Internet/Intranet. The new translation software product line @promt consists of a wide range of sophisticated software products and solutions and ensures the highest quality and efficiency of translation processes.

PROMT customers appreciate its continued commitment to the research and investment in the fields of linguistics and Natural Language Processing: PROMT has customers spanning consumer, SME and enterprise markets, including global industry leaders Xerox, SAP, Lukoil, General Motors, Volvo Car International, Deloitte and Touch and etc

Web: www.e-promt.com, www.online-translator.com

About AOL

AOL and its subsidiaries operate a leading network of Web brands and the largest Internet access subscription service in the United States. Web brands include the AOL.com(R) website, AIM(R), MapQuest(R) and Netscape(R). AOL offers a range of digital services in the areas of education, safety and security, communications and music. The company also has operations in Europe and Canada. AOL LLC is a majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) and is based in Dulles, Virginia.

Irvine, Calif. February, 2006 - Smart Link Corporation announces the release of a new service ImTranslator Multilingual Search. This new tool offers an easier way to search the web in many languages. ImTranslator Multilingual Search provides the search environment supported by multilingual Spell-checker, Translator , Virtual Keyboard, and Russian language Decoder.

This tool allows users to submit search queries to the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN in over 30 languages, and narrow the search results to sites from a particular country and language. If you are searching for foreign queries our results translator will let you view them in your native language. This feature is similar to Yahoo's multilingual search.

To facilitate the input of queries in languages not supported by the user's computer, the virtual keyboard is implemented. This allows visitors to enter text in many languages either from the physical keyboard or by clicking the keys on the screen.

To assure an error-free input, the built-in spell-checker is enabled by default. The spell-checker is available in 8 languages with the option to change, ignore, or correct any misspelled words.

When working with Russian text in different conflicting character sets, the automatic language decoder converts incomprehensible text into a standard Cyrillic encoding.

ImTranslator Multilingual Search is a perfect solution for the Web audience to search the Web. It enhances any site's potential by increasing accessibility and convenience.

You can get more information about ImTranslator Multilingual Search at www.search.imtranslator.net

Irvine, Calif. December, 2005 - Smart Link Corporation announces the release of the network translation software @promt NET Professional 7.0 with the following translation directions: English to/from French, English to/from German, English to/from Portuguese, English to/from Spanish, English to/from Russian.

@promt NET Professional 7.0 is a client-server translation solution for Windows that delivers all functionalities available in the desktop product @promt Professional 7.0. This solution is targeted to business users, government and public administrations.

The cost-effective license management policy allows the client applications of @promt NET Professional 7.0 to be installed on unlimited number of computers connected within corporate LAN. The translation server counts connected computers only, so it cuts at least 30% from the license cost. Adding new workstation to the network is just as simple as purchasing additional license numbers.

@promt NET Professional 7.0 keeps the dictionary database including general and user dictionaries, and customization options on the translation server. The shared linguistic database guarantees that the corporate standards in terminology translation are kept on the enterprise level.

All the users of @promt NET Professional 7.0 are granted access to the specified translation functions set according to their tasks and permissions. This greatly simplifies the work with the software for common users as they need to learn the limited number of functionalities only.

All these features of @promt NET Professional 7.0 along with low administration overhead guarantee high efficiency with low total cost of ownership. In this case not only the license cost is low but the maintenance expenses are also tended to be minimal.

PROMT translation technology was warmly welcomed by industry experts and received a number of awards for its excellence from computer magazines such as c PC Magazine France, c't, ComputerBuild, ZDNet, XP Solutions, PC Welt and other numerous awards from the experts in the countries of Germany, France, USA, Russia etc.

For further details please visit www.smartlinkcorp.com

Irvine, Calif. September, 2005 - Smart Link Corporation, a developer and publisher of multilingual software products and web-based solutions, has launched an informative portal that presents innovative language technologies, tools and information on their potential implementation into various business solutions.

As businesses expand into global markets they are faced with a challenging linguistic barrier. In the hopes of overcoming this obstacle and capturing a bigger market share, numerous services get translated and localized for the foreign market. While these multi-language websites and services do an excellent job in conveying information to the customers in their native tongue, the end-user is still faced with the dilemma of interacting with the provided content. Features such as search, email, forms, surveys, forums, and customer service become unreachable for the users because they require specific system configuration and/or specific tools on the user's computer.

Smart Link Corporation offers web-based solutions and native tools that are designed to improve the business process by integrating language technology into business applications, such as content management systems, CRM, databases, portals and internal systems. The onscreen Virtual Keyboard will allow the customers to conveniently enter text on foreign keyboards without any settings changes or installations. The Translation tool will help to keep the websites updated in many languages as well as ease the flow of multilingual communication in customer service/support. The Spell-checker will assure greater accuracy of communication in multilingual text boxes and forms. The Dictionary will translate as you type and can be a useful reference as an embedded tool in web mail, forums, blogs, etc. The Russian language Decoder will solve problems related to an incorrect display of Russian characters in emails, web applications, etc.

The Solution Guide introduces a spectrum of smart solutions and tips for the offered products, as well as guides you through the products' functionalities and potential implementations. Comprehensive working demos present samples of various solutions, which can be used as a stand-alone or integrated service for your business needs.

All of these services can be licensed or run on our remote servers and accessed from most popular operating systems and browsers.

Integration of Smart Link Corporation solutions into your services or applications will significantly enhance their accessibility and convenience, and in this way increase your site's potential in reaching a multilingual web audience.

For further details please visit www.imtranslator.net

Irvine, Calif. June, 2002 - Smart Link Corporation, a long-time developer and publisher of multilingual software, offers new Internet-based tool for anyone needing communication in foreign languages. VIRTUAL KEYBOARD, a small, well-designed and easy-to-use Java application lets users easily create multilingual text content in almost any existing platform and direct output it to web pages.

Virtual Keyboard does not require changes to language settings in your system and even speeds up the entire text input process for your customers. It lets your native speaking clients access your web resources from any location in the world without having the trouble of missing national keyboard layouts and fonts in their computers.

It already has all the necessary keyboard layouts built-in and ready for use for all Western, Central European, Cyrillic, Baltic, Greek and Turkish languages. All you have to do is select the desired language and start typing. When done, just click the Apply button and the text content will be transferred directly to a web form exactly the way you've typed it.

Whether you travel abroad and need access to your corporate or personal Web email from any available computer, send email in a language not supported by the available computer;

or, you want to chat with your friends in their native language and don't have special means to do it on your computer;
or, you need to fill out online forms, guest books or input information containing foreign characters;
or, you are searching for foreign language information in directories and search services;
or, you are using online translation services or need to look up words in online dictionaries;
or, you prefer the Dvorak keyboard layout, you are accustomed to;

Virtual Keyboard is a perfect solution for your needs. It makes it easier for your customers to communicate with your multilingual web resources that require manual text input.

You can try, purchase, and get more information about Virtual Keyboard at http://www.paralink.com/virk/

Irvine, Calif. July, 2000 - Smart Link Corporation is proud to present a new line of language products for Pocket PC covering mobile device users' needs for multilingual communication. The software designed for Pocket PC are bilingual dictionaries Pocket Context, translating words and phrases between English and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish languages, and Pocket PROMT, translating texts between English and French and English and Russian languages.

The software has been successfully presented on the Developer Summit held by Handango, the world's leading Internet marketplace for handheld computing solutions. The leading groups of handheld device manufacturers and service providers have been very interested in seeing this perfect solution for mobile device users.

The software is easily installable and can be purchased separately for each language pair. Every new language pair is installed to the same program interface as an additional language.

Pocket PROMT translator provides translation on-the-fly, a very attractive feature for the customers.

New services allow users translating text or searching words and phrases online on six major European languages with an unprecedented speed and accuracy.

Irvine, Calif. June, 2000 - Smart Link Corporation, a long-time developer and publisher of multilingual software, offers new Internet-based tools for anyone needing fast and accurate communication in foreign languages. These are CONTEXT-Online and PROMT-Online, the Web-based versions of two well-known multilingual software packages, which provide search and translation of words and phrases and texts translation.

CONTEXT-Online is available today at www.paralink.com/context. The Guest account presents bilingual dictionaries in 6 major European languages and offers translation of words and phrases between English and Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Russian languages. The database contains more than 500,000 terms. An easy and convenient interface and fast, "smart" search engine provide comprehensive translation results.

CONTEXT-Online will be further developed to include a user dictionary feature and the possibility to publish a new dictionary online. These unprecedented features will put CONTEXT system apart all other similar databases.

PROMT-Online can be accessed from www.paralink.com/translation. This is a powerful translation solution for Internet users. PROMT-Online supports translation:

• from English to French, Russian and Spanish;
• from French to English, German and Russian;
• from German to English, French and Russian;
• from Russian to English, French and German.

This service can be very helpful in translating small texts on various subject matters, email messages or browsing international web sites. The URL-mode allows users to browse and translate any Web site. Beside translation functions, PROMT-Online includes several very useful options: conversion of unreadable text format, input text in any language from a virtual keyboard, e-mailing translation results directly from the translation page. PROMT-Online responds to the growing need of getting access to the multilingual information.

These powerful Internet-based tools bring down the language barriers allowing fast, easy and effective communication.

Smart Link Corporation also offers a new tool, named Virtual File System (VFS) aimed to manage the Web space with more ease and convenience. VFS is a new web solution to organize, manage and share data online. Our mission is to create and distribute convenient tools and services that enable customers to use the Internet in order to boost their productivity in collaboration and communication with each other. This service is available at www.paralink.com.