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Truphone Releases Nano Tru SIM

Millions of iOS device Users Can Now Stay Better Connected Internationally

 LONDON, Jan. 8, 2013 – Truphone today announced the availability of its Tru SIM in the nano SIM format, enabling millions of iPhone 5 and iPad mini users to connect and communicate in and between more than 200 countries - without the pain of paying extraordinary high roaming fees while traveling abroad. The nano SIM complements the existing micro SIM and standard SIM sizes already available.

The company is committed to enabling people to access its service on the most popular devices, and with the increasing penetration of Bring Your Own Device policies within enterprise, this additional form factor opens up the service to a very large community of Apple users.

“Smartphones and tablets are getting smaller, lighter and more powerful,” said Marc LeMaitre, US Vice President of Technical Sales. “Manufacturers are focusing on the device aesthetics and user interface and we’re focusing on keeping those device owners connected - wherever they are.”

LeMaitre adds, “To add more power and functionality, smartphone and tablet manufacturers need to conserve space by making the internal components smaller. The nano SIM does this without sacrificing any of the storage and functionality. While not too many people understand what a SIM card is, it is the heart and soul of any GSM mobile device and why it was important to Truphone to get ahead of this upcoming trend.”

Truphone’s nano SIM is unique. Unlike traditional mobile operators, the company’s SIM has multiple subscriber identities, giving customers the ability to have multiple international phone numbers on a single device.

The Tru SIM--combined with Truphone’s intelligent network- tackles the main problems of doing business internationally on a mobile phone. This means that Truphone customers communicate with their international contacts more frequently, whether they are at home or travelling abroad – with a superior quality and a lower cost.

Along with significant savings, Truphone’s innovations offer convenience. Subscribers receive a single bill, have one voice and text mailbox, over-the-air updates and access to 7/24 customer service while traveling abroad.

For more information on Truphone services please visit www.truphone.com.

Editor’s Note: Truphone will be tabling and demonstrating at booth #35553 on the upper level of South Hall 4 at the 2013 International CES.

 

ABOUT TRUPHONE    

Truphone, the pioneering international mobile communications company, helps people and businesses around the world stay connected, wherever they may be.  The company’s unique SIM-based offering works in more than 200 countries, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of international mobile roaming. 

KeyPoint Technologies Introduces Industry Leading Keyboard Customization Features in Adaptxt® App Update for Android Smartphones & Tablets

New Real Time ThemeBoard Color Palette Allows Users to Change Background, Foreground, and Fonts As They See Fit

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 7, 2013 — KeyPoint Technologies today introduced new features for its distinctive Adaptxt^® brand smart keyboard app that allows Android smartphone and tablet users to extensively personalize and customize their keyboards. Unlike stock Android keyboards, users now have the freedom to change their keyboard color scheme as they see fit, and adjust the height of the keys. Adaptxt is the first to offer real time customization and personalization features.

The new Keyboard Customization features for Android include:

• The ability to add a vibrant and distinctive keyboard look for their devices from an almost infinite variety of color combinations. Users can express their artistic genius or mood by selecting colors of each keyboard element – the background color of the keyboard, key color, primary QWERTY characters and secondary numbers and symbols.
• An on-screen keyboard height adjustment feature, which makes Adaptxt perfectly customizable to small and large screen Android devices.
• A new clipboard interface featuring buttons to cut, copy and paste blocks of text and navigation keys to toggle between fields and move the cursor within the message. Users can easily access this interface by sliding their finger from one end to the other of the keyboard.

“Adaptxt as a brand is focused on enhancing the user experience through keyboard customization,” said KeyPoint’s VP Marketing, Ronald Brown. “We have listened to our users and are developing the Adaptxt keyboard app to better meet their needs, and it’s paying off. We’ve experienced a significant increase in downloads over the past year and adoption continues to climb.”

The current version of Adaptxt features 68 language dictionaries, from Arabic to Vietnamese, plus 35 industry-specific dictionaries for professions such as business, finance, legal, telecom and medical. The industry-first SMS dictionary provides more than 3,000 shorthand abbreviations – such as lol, btw, gr8 and every1 – to make composing and sending text messages faster while keeping them from exceeding the 160-character limit. In addition to the current selection of dictionaries available, KeyPoint plans to develop additional consumer and enterprise related dictionaries this year.

Adaptxt uses artificial intelligence to identify the unique words and phrases entered by each user and adds them to a personalized custom dictionary. Adaptxt is fundamentally different from – and superior to – traditional predictive solutions, which simply hunt for a match in a predetermined dictionary lexicon, then automatically change what users type, forcing them to go back and manually correct the platform’s mistake.

The Adaptxt keyboard app is available now for free from Google Play Store (https://play.google.com), the Amazon App Store and GetJar store.

The upgraded Adaptxt 1.1 keyboard works with any smartphone running Android 2.1 or later. Adaptxt 2.1 for Tablet works with any tablet running Android 2.2 or later.

For more information visit: www.adaptxt.com and www.keypoint-tech.com

Editor’s Note: KeyPoint will be tabling and demonstrating Adaptxt at the Mobile Apps Showdown taking place on Thursday, January 10 at 12:30 p.m. in the North Hall Room N255 at the 2013 International CES.

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About ADAPTXT, a KeyPoint Technologies Innovation

ADAPTXT dramatically improves people’s ability to quickly input their ideas, words and commands into Android devices of all kinds.  Using the latest advances in linguistic science and artificial intelligence to anticipate users’ meaning, ADAPTXT’s smart keyboard applications make human/machine interaction dramatically more enjoyable, personal and accurate.  Developed by KeyPoint Technologies, Ltd., ADAPTXT represents the leading use of predictive computer input technology in the market today.  Founded in 2004, KeyPoint Technologies is headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, the epicenter of linguistics, with additional offices in India, Japan and the U.S.  The company is a trusted partner for OEMs, platform providers and developers.  KeyPoint Technologies is privately owned. More information can be found at www.keypoint-tech.com and www.adaptxt.com.

MPme Launches the iPhone Version of Its Award-Winning Curated Radio App

Effortless discovery of personalized mobile music at its best—Real radio, curated by DJs 

LONDON, DEC. 19, 2012 —MPme Limited today announced the immediate availability of the iPhone version of its award-winning mobile music app. Available for the iPad since January 2012, MPme now offers music lovers an elegant aggregation app of professionally curated radio from around the world on iPhones and iPod touch. Discovering music that users love is made effortless as MPme accesses thousands of radio station streams in real-time and uses this real-time music data plus the user’s music library, listening habits and those of their friends to recommend stations to listen to through the app.

Other music radio applications present users with long, impenetrable lists of radio stations where listeners have to do all the work. MPme eliminates the time-consuming problem of seeking and finding by fetching music that’s relevant to what listeners want to hear. MPme does the work for users, recommending stations that are likely to be of interest to them, presenting the choice of top stations in an elegant, visual interface. MPme presents recommended radio stations that match users’ tastes so they can hear their favorite tunes, discover new, related music and, perhaps find new favorite radio stations and DJs outside of their local market. 

“Until now, discovering the music you love has always been a manual, hit-and-miss process, but with MPme, the music you like almost magically finds you,” said Christian Miccio, CEO at MPme. “By weaving together a person’s own listening habits with those of their friends combined with what’s already inside their iTunes music library on the iOS device, MPme then quickly recommends music that matches a person’s own tastes effortlessly.”

MPme offers a life-like experience, unlike robotic jukebox music services which lack the human touch. MPme harkens back to radio's glory days when local DJs were the best source for music and industry information. Now that you can listen to stations from all over the globe, if you simply don't want the hassle of looking, MPme does the work for you. MPme intelligently learns your music preferences and connects you to radio stations playing music close to your tastes.

Just like MPme’s award winning iPad app, Winner – Music Discovery, Recommendation & Creation at Midem 2012, the iPhone app looks beautiful whilst providing users with a problem solving, music discovery service, with sleek, clean design and simple navigation.

All iOS versions of MPme support Apple Airplay, enabling listening on external speakers, and second-screens such as Apple TV, showing the listener what’s playing on that screen.

MPme is available immediately for free in the iTunes Store for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices (requires iOS 5 and above). Android and web versions are scheduled for 2013 launch.

 

About MPme

MPme delivers personalized mobile music at its best – connecting users to music curated by thousands of professional radio station DJs from around the world whose tastes most closely match theirs.

Brought to you by a small, dedicated team based in London’s tech start up haven, Silicon Roundabout, MPme developed the iPhone app in 2012. 2013 will see expansion to Android devices and a web client, amongst other exciting partnerships and feature developments.

More info available on request or at http://mpme.com.

 

Truphone Frees International Travelers from Roaming Bill Shock During the Holidays and Beyond

Get a $15 credit and save up to 90 percent on international roaming fees for voice, data and text in more than 220 countries

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 17­­, 2012 – No one enjoys the holiday hangover of bills that arrive in January, especially if you’ve traveled internationally to visit friends and family. Savvy consumers can avoid a big mobile phone bill when they arrive home by taking advantage of a special holiday offer from Truphone, the mobile operator for the international traveler. 

Consumers and business travelers can receive a $15 credit when they buy and activate a Tru Travel SIM, enabling them to save up to 90 percent on voice, data and text compared to what other mobile operators typically charge. Best of all, those savings don’t end Dec. 31. Instead, they continue through 2013 and beyond as long as they remain a Truphone customer.

“The prepaid Tru Travel SIM is the perfect stocking stuffer for friends, family, colleagues, clients and anyone else who travels internationally," said Pascal de Hesselle, Vice President of Marketing for Truphone Americas. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving, enabling travelers to easily manage their usage, recharge their account as needed and not worry about any unexpected roaming charges that would make them feel as if the Grinch stole their holiday cheer.”

Here’s how it works:

• Visit www.truphone.com/holiday and order a Tru Travel SIM pack for $29.99. Order by Dec. 19 to ensure U.S. delivery by Christmas. Don’t need delivery by Christmas or celebrating Kwanzaa instead? Just place the order by Dec. 31 to make the recipient – even if it’s yourself – eligible for the $15 credit.
  
  
• Activate the Tru Travel SIM to receive a $15 airtime credit good for voice, text or data in more than 220 countries.

• Insert the Tru Travel SIM into your unlocked GSM smartphone, feature phone or tablet. No need to buy or rent a phone just for traveling. No need to give everyone a temporary mobile number to reach you abroad. Just continue to use your phone and your phone number.

• When you step off the plane, train or boat in any of more than 220 countries, use your phone normally. No need to tinker with settings such as choosing a roaming provider in that country. Just talk, text, tweet or Facebook as if you were still at home, while Truphone works behind the scenes to find the cheapest connection.

• You also can add additional phone numbers to your Tru Travel SIM for countries such as Australia and the U.K. That way, friends and family save money by calling a number that’s local in their country when they want to reach you, even when you’re back home. 

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About Truphone
Truphone Inc., is a global mobile operator, helping people and businesses around the world stay connected, wherever they may be.

KeyPoint Technologies Adds to Holiday Season With Yule-Themed Adaptxt® App and a Christmas Dictionary for Android Smartphones

Now available by updating Adaptxt to the latest version via Google Play

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 17, 2012 — Just in time for celebrating year-end holidays, KeyPoint Technologies gives Android users a distinctive way to show they’re in the holiday spirit with a yuletide-themed version of Adaptxt^®. The Adaptxt smart keyboard now features traditional red and green colors, snowflakes and wrapped gifts and provides users with a dedicated Christmas dictionary.

Offered as a free download for Android devices, Adaptxt is an intelligent keyboard app that enables users to text, compose messages and enter data more quickly and easily; and now, for the first time, the app is offered in a festive holiday theme.

With dictionaries in 68 languages or dialects, Adaptxt uses artificial intelligence and natural language algorithms to predict words and correct users’ errors as they key in SMS messages, compose emails or enter information into applications on their Android tablets and smartphones.

In addition to the winter holiday theme, the latest Adaptxt features include single-touch Wikipedia definitions, seamless toggling between languages for multi-lingual users and an extensive library of 35 industry-specific dictionaries for professions. These choices provide greater personalization options and encourage users to communicate more freely and productively with little effort, leading to higher levels of engagement and satisfaction.

The 2012 holiday theme is available for free by updating Adaptxt to the latest version via Google Play and the Christmas dictionary is available for download from the Adaptxt Add-On Manager.

Adaptxt is available for free from Google Play, Amazon and GetJar. The upgraded Adaptxt 1.1 works with any smartphone running Android 2.1 or later. Adaptxt 2.0 works with any tablet running Android 2.2 or later. For more information, visit www.keypoint-tech.com and www.adaptxt.com.

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About KeyPoint Technologies
KeyPoint Technologies, Ltd. (KPT) is a world leader in predictive computer input technology, combining linguistics, artificial intelligence and computer science to deliver smarter and more natural consumer experiences. Selling its products under the Adaptxt® brand name, it currently focuses on the smartphone, tablet and feature phone markets. With headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland, and offices in India, Japan and the U.S., the company is a trusted partner for OEMs, platform providers and developers. KPT is privately owned. More information can be found at www.keypoint-tech.com and www.adaptxt.com.

OneTok Announces Highly Accurate Mobile Voice-Search Library

Developers can embed reliable, cost-effective capability into mobile apps

 NEW YORK – Dec. 11, 2012 – OneTok, the simple and flexible platform for developers building voice-recognition controls into mobile applications, today unveiled a highly accurate new voice search function that allows shoppers using mobile apps to find the products they want quickly and reliably. 

The new function enables users to find what they need quickly and effortlessly by using smartphones to search websites and online catalogs. Instead of wasting time pecking away at a keyboard, they can simply say what they’re looking for and a OneTok voice search-enabled app will narrow down returned results accurately.

Announced at AppNation IV that opens today in San Francisco, OneTok’s Voice Search Library is aimed at large retailers and other enterprises with extensive product catalogues.  Apps with the OneTok Voice Search Library embedded enable users to speak specific product names or categories of products. 

For example, a shopper using a big-box retailer’s app could say:  “I’m looking for 46-inch flat-screen TVs.”   The retailer’s app, powered by OneTok’s comprehensive voice-interpretation platform, then quickly delivers all the 46-inch, flat-screen TVs in the catalog to the shopper’s device.

“The accuracy and cost-effectiveness of our voice-search solution are significantly higher than any others available in the market today,” said OneTok co-founder and CEO Ben Lilienthal. “A key differentiator is that our technology cancels out background noise from wherever the user is speaking, and we transmit the audio in high-definition, which is truly differentiated.”

Lilienthal said OneTok’s Voice Search Library is available today for iOS and Android mobile devices, with functionality coming soon for Blackberry 10 and Windows 8 devices.

Developers can sign up for a OneTok account at http://www.onetok.com. For more information, visit www.onetok.com.

 

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About OneTok
Founded in 2011, OneTok develops a SaaS platform to voice-enable mobile apps so consumers can use the apps by talking to them in a normal and natural way. This helps app developers retain active users and further drive user engagement. OneTok's founders are patent-holding experts in voice over Internet systems.

‘The World on Sale’: Truphone’s Holiday Gift to Businesses

Company’s promotional offer is 25-percent discount off already compelling mobile rates – in more than 200 countries

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 10, 2012 – In the spirit of the holiday season, Truphone, the mobile operator for the international traveler, today announced “The World on Sale” offer that gives international business travelers discounts of an additional 25 percent off its already compelling standard mobile rates around the world.

Offering business-class voice, data and SMS service in more than 200 countries, Truphone helps businesses avoid bill shock and reduce costs of international mobile roaming. The company supports leading smartphones and uses innovations such as an intelligent network, a unique multi-identity SIM card and its own “least cost roaming” approach to offer significant savings to business people making calls, sending texts and accessing data networks when home or abroad.  By comparison, traditional GSM wireless carriers only use a single-identity SIM with their networks.

“Truphone delivers typical cost savings for businesses of 30 to 60 percent compared to other providers. The added 25 percent discount is a special promotion that’s good for the full term of a contract,” said Gary S. Cohen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Truphone Americas.

“Truphone is so confident you will be happy with our service that we will allow you to cancel at any time within the first 90 days, with no penalty or further obligation,” he said.

Truphone’s service works with all major mobile devices.  Its offer is especially rich for Blackberry users who travel internationally.  The plan includes a generous allocation of voice, text and data, and features unlimited Blackberry Email across the entire Truphone network of more than 200 countries.  

“We believe the discounted pricing of our ‘Blackberry Pack’ promotional offer is extraordinary compared to what’s available to business users elsewhere,” said Cohen. “We know that subscribers who sign up with Truphone will quickly realize the benefits of staying connected internationally for a very reasonable cost.”

To learn more specific details of Truphone’s “World on Sale” offer or to sign up, customers should visit http://www.truphone.com or call 1-888-996-6245.   The promotional offer is available to U.S. business customers and expires December 31, 2012.

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About Truphone
Truphone is a global mobile operator, helping people and businesses around the world stay connected, wherever they may be.

International Mobile Roaming Charges Hurt Midmarket, Enterprise and Fortune 1000 Firms, CCMI Report Finds

Regardless of size, the costs and pain of mobile roaming burden businesses whose employees travel abroad

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 4, 2012 -- The exorbitant costs and pain of today's international mobile roaming prices are just as real for mid-sized and enterprise companies as they are for Fortune 1000 companies, according to a new "mid-market" research study by CCMI, the leading provider of telecom rate and data solutions and information.

In a report commissioned by Truphone, the mobile operator for the international traveler, a CCMI survey of 201 companies in September 2012 classified "mid-market" companies as those with 100 to 1,000 employees and "enterprise" organizations as those with 1,001 to 10,000 employees.

CCMI found that as their populations of international travelers grow, business organizations of all sizes say they feel compelled to choose between two evils:

• Suffer with standard international roaming options and pay extraordinary charges to allow subscribers to continue using their mobile devices just as they would in their home markets.
• Change employee behavior so that their usage consumes fewer wireless minutes, messages and gigabytes.

Results of the latest research mirror CCMI's findings in a report earlier this year that focused on a survey of larger, Fortune 1000 companies. In both studies, CCMI reported that attempts at changing user behavior and even restricting employees' use of their mobile devices during international travel can have unwelcome consequences, including loss of business, productivity and data security, and difficulties in communicating with customers, suppliers, colleagues, partners and the employees themselves. 

Among other results, the latest CCMI survey found that:

• As with the Fortune 1000, 34 percent of midmarket and enterprise companies spend more than $1,000 per month per user on international wireless costs, while 15 percent spend more than $2,500 per user per month.
• 52 percent of companies surveyed have a specific company mandate in place to reduce their international roaming costs.

The latest CCMI report stresses that changing behavior can be onerous for users not adept at swapping out SIM cards and changing network settings. This is the case for many executives, who are the most likely to be traveling globally and conducting the highest-value business. Curbing their communications and productivity generally costs the company dearly.

"Given that most international travelers are on important business, as evidenced by their companies justifying the considerable expense associated with sending them abroad, neither option will suffice in the long term," the CCMI report said, advising that "organizations seeing their international wireless costs escalate should seek innovation in this market."

As examples of innovation, the CCMI report cites international network service resale plans combined with emerging wireless expense management (WEM) software and cloud services that can hold down costs of international mobile roaming.

The CCMI report concludes:  "Newer, emerging global carrier options, such as services enabled by SIMs with multiple international mobile numbers and mobile subscriber identities, are making it possible for companies to strike that all-important balance between connectivity and cost. Such multi-identity SIMs, in combination with network intelligence and negotiated rates, let employees use their existing wireless devices abroad just as they would in their home country so that usability and productivity remain consistent. This approach usually cuts international roaming bills by an estimated 30 percent to 90 percent, eliminating the high anxiety about bill shock."

Truphone helps businesses and consumers reduce costs of international mobile roaming by the percentages cited in the CCMI report, and offers voice, data and SMS service in more than 200 countries.  The company supports leading smartphones, uses an intelligent network, a unique multi-identity SIM card and its own "least cost roaming" approach to offer significant savings to business people making calls, sending texts and accessing data networks when abroad.  By comparison, traditional GSM carriers only offer a single identity/number per SIM.

"For business executives traveling internationally, Truphone offers a compelling solution," said Gary S. Cohen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Truphone Americas.  "Our mobile innovations and 'least cost roaming' approach enable international travelers to stay connected and productive while abroad without the fear of bill shock."

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About Truphone
Truphone is a global mobile operator, helping people and businesses around the world stay connected, wherever they may be.

SOURCE Truphone

Benbria Introduces BlazeLoop® to Deliver On-the-Spot Mobile Customer Engagement

BlazeLoop Enables Businesses to Recover At-Risk Customers, Increase In-Store Sales Conversion Rates and Improve Front-line Operations through Real-Time Customer Engagement 

Ottawa, Ontario – Nov. 14, 2012 – Benbria, the mobile customer engagement company, today announced BlazeLoop^® CE (customer engagement) for the retail, hospitality, finance, banking and fast-casual restaurant industries.

BlazeLoop provides a one-to-one connection between customers and staff, but is fundamentally different in style, speed, engagement and benefit from traditionally deployed feedback tools including surveys and website forms.

Through a variety of mobile, online and in-store collection points – including web app, SMS/text,  email, mobile app or kiosk – BlazeLoop gives businesses a better understanding into the quality of the customer experience at the point-of-engagement.

Using intuitive and interactive interfaces, BlazeLoop enables customers to conveniently provide on-the-spot feedback to businesses in a matter of seconds.  Real-time notifications alert front-line managers of customer issues, enabling them to contact the customer straight away and privately resolve issues before customers have a chance to leave the site dissatisfied or socialize their experiences publicly via word-of-mouth and social media.   

“Unlike post-visit surveys, BlazeLoop gives us instant visibility into our guests’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction, allowing us to address their requests and concerns while they are on our property,” said Patrice Basille, Executive Vice President at the Brookstreet Hotel, one of Ottawa’s finest hotels. “Our customers are more mobile than ever before and Benbria’s on-the-spot guest feedback helps us improve our operations by fixing issues when they happen, enhancing the guests’ experiences during their stay, and provides us real-time insight to give the next guests the experiences they expect and we strive to deliver.”

With an increasing number of consumers sharing their experiences on social media and other mobile channels, this feedback is not visible to the front-line managers who could use it to fix issues as they happen and better engage with their customers on-the-spot. By immediately acting on issues, businesses can win over at-risk customers, improve in-store conversion rates, reduce negative publicity and – on the plus side -- recognize an experience that surpassed what was expected.

Recover At-Risk Customers

Dissatisfied customers will rarely approach an employee face-to-face to complain about their issues. Instead, they will often share their experiences via social media and word of mouth, or remain silent and go to a competitor, leaving businesses unaware of their concerns, with very little chance of winning them back.

“Benbria helps businesses adapt quickly to a real-time world where on-the-spot feedback is necessary to improve daily business operations and customer relations,” said Benbria CEO Andrea Baptiste, “BlazeLoop captures customer feedback so staff preemptively react to negative commentary before it is publicly socialized. This drives operational excellence by turning customers into native brand advocates built upon great customer experiences that turn into repeat business and referral opportunities.”

Increase In-Store Sales Conversion Rates

Retailers often struggle with low sales conversion rates and why patrons walk out without making a purchase. BlazeLoop helps companies capture customer feedback on the last three feet of the sale by intelligently directing the customer insight or concern to front-line staff so they can that can engage and resolve customer issues in real-time.  Benbria made possible an 18 percent rise in sales for a Fortune 1000 customer by providing the business the ability to immediately see, act and close on customer-facing issues.

Point of Engagement Metrics

BlazeLoop delivers powerful point-of-engagement analytics on the customer experience that are centrally tracked and available in real-time reports to all levels of management. Leveraging unique key performance indicators of revenue, business operations and conversion, BlazeLoop quantifies and measures the customer experience based on its impact to company objectives. Opportunities for improvement are identified which can enhance brand reputation management, customer service and front-line operations.

About Benbria
Benbria is a leader in mobile customer engagement solutions for retail, hospitality, financial, utilities and fast casual restaurant customers. Benbria is passionate about building technology that connects businesses with the people they serve. Through customer notifications to front-line managers, BlazeLoop empowers businesses to capture instant feedback on the customer’s terms at the point of engagement and act on issues on-the-spot. By preempting negative commentary before it can be publicly socialized while facilitating the positive as it happens, BlazeLoop drives profitability through improved business operations, recovered dissatisfied customers, repeat business, and increased in-store conversion rates. For more information visit: www.benbria.com.

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Adaptxt Smart Keyboard App Enables Android Users to Type Emails and Text Messages Quickly, Accurately and Succinctly

Features artificial intelligence and 103 custom dictionaries, including an industry-first SMS lexicon that automatically provides abbreviations such as lol, gr8 and every1 

SAN JOSE (Nov. 5, 2012) — Typing emails and text messages on a virtual keyboard is often an exercise in frustration as the software forces users to conform to it rather than the other way around. Two new versions of the Adaptxt smart keyboard app for Android smartphones and tablets eliminate that hassle by using 103 custom language and industry-specific dictionaries, as well as artificial intelligence that quickly masters the nuances of how each person writes.

Reviewers and consumers have spent the past year lauding the smartphone beta version of Adaptxt for simplifying and personalizing their input experience and avoiding the mistakes and unnecessary steps that are common with the native keyboards on Android devices. Extensive user feedback has been incorporated to create Adaptxt 1.0 for smartphones, which adds more than 12 features including single-touch Wikipedia definitions and toggling between languages.

Adaptxt uses artificial intelligence to identify the unique words and phrases that each person uses and then adds them to a personalized custom dictionary. Adaptxt is fundamentally different from – and superior to – traditional predictive solutions, which simply hunt for a match in a dictionary based on a predetermined lexicon, then automatically change what users type, forcing them to go back and manually correct the platform’s mistake.

Adaptxt features 35 industry-specific dictionaries for professions such as finance, legal and medical, plus 68 language dictionaries, from Arabic to Vietnamese. The industry-first SMS dictionary provides more than 3,000 shorthand abbreviations – such as lol, btw, gr8 and every1 – to make typing text messages faster while keeping them from going over the 160-character limit.

These dictionaries complement the app’s ability to learn each user’s writing style, enabling a typing experience that’s fast, convenient and consistently accurate. Adaptxt’s other major features include:

• Automatic text replacement lets you create one-touch shortcuts for phrases that you frequently use.
• Language-specific keyboard layouts, such as QWERTY, QWERTZ, QZERTY, AZERTY, and a 12-key phone-style keypad.
• A split keyboard in the tablet version.
• Quickly switch between languages by dragging the space key left or right.
• Post messages on Facebook and Twitter with a single tap directly from Adaptxt, eliminating the step of launching those apps to share an update.
• The ability to use your messages and social network posts to learn words that you frequently use.
• A “private mode” that suspends learning to keep words from being added to your personal dictionary.
• Quickly and conveniently add and delete words from your personal dictionary.

“The beta version of Adaptxt for smartphones averaged a 4.3 rating in the Google Play store, but we weren’t comfortable with anything less than perfection,” said Sumit Goswami, KeyPoint Technologies CEO. “We incorporated a year’s worth of user feedback to create a 1.0 product that blows away keyboard apps that are in their 2.0 and 3.0 versions, not to mention the stock keyboard apps that come with Android tablets and smartphones. Adaptxt sets the standard for fast, convenient and intuitive text entry.”

The Adaptxt app and its 103 dictionary add-ons are available immediately for free from Google Play, Amazon and GetJar. Adaptxt 1.0 works with any smartphone running Android 2.1 or later. Adaptxt 2.0 works with any tablet running Android 2.2 or later. For more information, visit www.keypoint-tech.com and www.adaptxt.com.

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About KeyPoint Technologies
KeyPoint Technologies, Ltd. (KPT) is a world leader in predictive computer input technology, combining linguistics, artificial intelligence and computer science to deliver smarter and more natural consumer experiences. Selling its products under the Adaptxt® brand name, it currently focuses on the smartphone, tablet and feature phone markets. With headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland, and offices in India, Japan and the U.S., the company is a trusted partner for OEMs, platform providers and developers. KPT is privately owned. More information can be found at www.keypoint-tech.com and www.adaptxt.com.