WordWalla Joins Three Major Industry Organizations

Business Wire, Jan 17, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

Embedded Linux Consortium, LISA and Unicode Consortium Memberships

Solidify Company's Commitment to Building and Adapting its

Product Offering to Emerging Technologies and Markets

WordWalla, Inc., a leading global language software provider, has joined three key industry organizations to participate in the development and understanding of new, emerging technologies and markets -- the Embedded Linux Consortium, LISA and the Unicode Consortium.

As members of these three leading organizations, WordWalla will help contribute to the latest developments in Linux applications and Unicode standards as it relates to the use and proliferation of new font technologies, and will support and evangelize globalization initiatives. WordWalla also plans to work closely with other members to share information and create alliances with like partners.

"We are pleased to participate in these organizations that are actively working to adopt and promote new technologies and standards on a global scale," said Syed Aamer Azam, WordWalla's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering. "We are committed to building and conforming our software to meet the needs of emerging technologies and markets and intend to become a truly active force for these initiatives."

The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) (www.embedded-linux.org) is a nonprofit, vendor-neutral trade association whose goal is the advancement and promotion of Linux throughout the embedded, applied and appliance computing markets.

LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association) (www.lisa.org) is the premier organization for the localization and internationalization industry. The current membership of 220 leading players from all around the world includes software publishers, hardware manufacturers, globalization solutions providers, and an increasing number of companies from related IT sectors. LISA provides best practice, business guidelines and standards information for translation and localization workflow, tools and enterprise globalization.

The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit organization founded to develop, extend, and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards. The Consortium cooperates with ISO in refining the specification and expanding the character set. It has liaison status "C" with ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC2/WG2, which is responsible for ISO/IEC 10646. Members of the Consortium include major computer corporations, software producers, database vendors, research institutions, international agencies, various user groups, and interested individuals.

About WordWalla

WordWalla Inc. (www.wordwalla.com) is the leading provider of global language software for the Internet, mobile and embedded devices and software applications. WordWalla's products currently support 56 languages, enabling over 85 percent of the world's population to create and access information in any language from any device. Its patent pending software incorporates advanced technology designed to overcome mobile device limitations.

WordWalla offers its technology and solutions to device OEMs, wireless carriers, international sites, ISPs, Global Portals, and B2B marketplaces. To showcase its technology, WordWalla offers Web-based multilingual email and chat at www.wordwalla.com, where over 40,000 users are currently accessing the service for free. Founded in December 1999, WordWalla is a privately held company headquartered in Fremont, Calif.