Ectaco Inc. Introduces the First Official $99 jetBook? mini, Giving Book Lovers Greater Choice and New Authors a Chance of a Lifetime

New York, 20, October 2010  Ectaco Inc., the world's leader in portable language learning and translation technology, is giving book lovers more choice and greater value in dedicated eBook Reading devices with the addition of the jetBook-mini for just $99. The new jetBook mini, recently revealed at the Frankfurt Book Fair and Consumer Electronics Show in Hong Kong, offers the great features of the jetBook family - ultra crisp 5" reflective TFT screen technology with instant page turns, multiple language support and portability, plus a new look and 90 hours of continuous reading time on a single set of 4AAA Enegizer batteries. The jetBook mini brings a new feel with a stylish design, pocketable size, variety of colors and light weight (just 5.7 ounces), making it the lightest eReader in the world and easy to carry in your pocket. A new all-way reading angle now allows users to read in 4 different directions with notable features that include an option for Line Spacing, Line Breaking, 6 Different Font Sizes and language support. "With all our jetBook fans' advice, we decided to create the lightest, most versatile, fully functioning eBook Reader to date, while offering the lowest possible price" said David Lubinitsky, CEO, Ectaco Inc. "The new design makes the jetBook mini weigh only 5.7 oz., less than any other eReader while maintaining its high speed and even greater choice in content. There is no limit to how users can customize their jetBook mini through languages, folders, books and a new line of colors." With up and coming authors in mind, Ectaco invites writers to send in their own written material for a chance to have the writings loaded to every jetBook sold. Famous science fiction writer Robert Sawyer has graciously added his short stories to the mix which will now be available for all jetBook users to read and enjoy at no cost. All writers can contact greg@ectaco.com for more information on how to get their book on to the jetBook. For more information visit www.jetbookmini.com or contact Greg Stetson at 718 728 6110 ext. 212 orgreg@ectaco.com.

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Ectaco Inc. equips entire schools in Ukraine with the jetBook eReader - replacing old and heavy textbooks

New York,  October 13, 2010 

Ectaco Inc., the world's leader in portable language learning and the manufacturer of the jetBook eReader announced today that it's participating in a technological breakthrough in Ukraine by replacing old textbooks in city schools with the jetBook.

Starting in Kharkov and organized by the Kharkov municipality with the Ministry of Education in Ukraine, the shift from print books to an all electronic book format will take the schools into the future of reading and studying. Students will no longer experience trouble with heavy backpacks or lose their place while reading again. The jetBook eReader weighs only 5.8 ounces, can store thousands of textbooks, and has superior functions that help students find texts, words, and jump to pages instantly.

"The Ministry of Education in Ukraine has a great potential to advance the learning ethics of students" says Alex Rabinovich, jetBook Marketing Manager for Ectaco Europe, "Therefore, we?re highly pleased that Ukraine has become one of the first countries in the world to launch such a project. We are excited to participate in this initiative with the Kharkov municipality, as the innovation policy in education will aid both students and teachers."

Ectaco Inc. has over 20 years of experience in developing electronic dictionaries, speech to speech translators, and language learning devices for the consumer market as well as the Army and other government agencies in the United States. As of 2006, the company expanded and began developing eReaders. They successfully launched 3 generations including the jetBook, jetBook LITE, and jetBook mini that are being used in schools all around the US. 

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Check out the brand new 126 language XM500 electronic dictionary by ECTACO!

Meet our brand new multilingual talking dictionary: the ECTACO Partner XM500. It represents the latest generation of the ECTACO 500 series and includes the most recent innovations!

This unique device comes pre-loaded with 126 languages and, more importantly, provides fast and accurate translation between any of these languages. All you need is to pick the language pair and start typing. The word you type in will be found and translated to the language you choose.

The XM500 features the most sophisticated TTS (Text-To-Speech) voice synthesis and lets you hear the words spoken out loud in the most popular languages. The Partner XM500 has an English interface which is very user-friendly and allows navigating through the menu effortlessly. Featuring an advanced Look-Up function and a Word Recognition utility, the device helps you find any word in its massive database instantly. Several exciting linguistic games have also been included to help you memorize new words as you play.

Other great features include the World Time utility, built-in calculator, as well as currency and metric converters to be truly useful travel partners.

Click here to get more information on the new Partner XM500.

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It happened: Adobe DRM support for ECTACO JetBook and jetBook LITE is now out! Advanced apps and add-ons included.

"Ectaco Inc. has now added Adobe DRM to all jetBooks and jetBook LITES to provide users with virtually unlimited download capacity from the most popular eBookstores and even local public libraries.

Long Island City, NY, July 13, 2010

ECTACO Inc., a New York based company best known for their jetBook budget eBook readers, hand-held electronic translators, and translating software has announced that the jetBook and jetBook LITE will now support Adobe DRM protected formats and 4 new languages. The jetBook is most known for being the strongest price competitor to the Kindle and Nook and stays steady as the leader in entry level eReaders.

David Lubinitsky, ECTACO’s CEO explains, "We decided to give the jetBook a little upgrade via feedback we received from our dedicated customers saying that although they really liked our product, especially because of its technical features and flexible pricing policy, Adobe DRM support would be a great addition. We hope that now our customers will find getting eBooks on the jetBook to be much easier and the reading itself even more comfortable than before."

The new features will drastically enhance ECTACO's performance in the market. Since the majority of online stores sell Adobe DRM protected eBooks, the company is now likely to embrace a new spectrum of consumers who utilize these venues to purchase their virtual novel collections. The new language additions allow an even greater variety of users to read books in their native languages including Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese and Hebrew.

Support for DRM encoded ePub files allow for the purchase of bestseller eBooks from popular online retailers including Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Borders, ebooks.com and many others. Additionally, downloading eBooks from local libraries will now be accessible as a result of the Adobe DRM.

The update will be available via free download for owners of the ECTACO jetBook and jetBook LITE onwww.jetbook.net. All jetBooks sold after July 22nd will come with the Adobe DRM support integrated.

To find out more about ECTACO jetBook and the latest innovations in the modern library of the 21st century visit www.jetbook.net or contact Greg Stetson at 718 728 6110 Ext. 212"

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Asian languages support for jetBook

We are glad to inform all those who are interested in our technical endeavors that from now on our jetBook eBook Reader also supports 4 Asian languages - Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese and Hebrew - in addition to the vast collection of European languages it has been supporting.

We are trying to do our absolute best at providing the most comfortable reading experience to our customers from different regions and of different cultures as well as to any language enthusiast. The diligent work of our research and development center has made it possible to add these wonderful features, which, to our knowledge, are not yet available on other readers of the markets.

We would like to pay tribute to the blogger livingenzyme, one of our customers, who was the first one to describe this new feature in his blog even before the official press-release. This is what there is to say about the update:

“I have been doing some investigation and talking to some people.  It seems that right now the ectaco jetbook lite is the only unit on the market that displays the Vietnamese characters 100% correctly.  People who have … other ebook readers have reported not being able to get their devices to show unicode characters correctly… I'm glad they are planning/willing to extend their promotion of the product to other communities.  Up till now, ebook readers out there … have been limited to latin based characters.  Now that we know the jetbook lite could also show accurately unicode characters, which include East Asian languages as well as Arabic, their potential market has just increased vastly in size.  This is a good thing.  Anything to get people to read!”

Here is a picture showing a text in Vietnamese  on a jetBook Lite

You can find this picture as well as some other and the complete post on the subject here. Also, we encourage you to follow jetBook related discussions on Mobileread.

P.S. The author of the good news will receive a brand new leather wallet and earlight for the jetBook LITE :).

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ECTACO, Inc. Announces a New Era in Handheld Communication

Ectaco Inc. (www.ectaco.com) has just unveiled the newest and most prestigious electronic dictionary known to date right in time for the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. Freely translating through any languages, downloading books and photo albums, learning, studying, and hearing fluent pronunciations of every word or phrase are now available in the palm of your hand.

Here is the ECTACO Partner P900 Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook. Unlike anything in the past and with absolutely no competitors in it's class, the Partner P900 can be marked as the Mercedes-Benz of the translating world. While typing it pronounces the letters for you in any language. While in the dictionary or picture dictionary, you have access to hundreds of thousands of words fluently spoken aloud, and now you can even download full e-books with pictures and all to read anywhere and anytime. Even the built-in FM Radio will get a signal while you're on the go. With Ectaco's award-winning Language Teacher now upgraded, it will teach you step by step English or any foreign language like a personal tutor while charting progress to see how well you do. If learning by day isn't enough, the brand new U-Learn course now teaches you while you sleep. Pre-set programs will automatically do all the work for you so in the morning you wake up feeling refreshed and multilingual.

ECTACO Inc. President and CEO David Lubinitsky asserted, "We decided to go all out on this project. From the sleek metallic frame, to the most user-friendly interface we've ever invented, this is definitely the next generation in language learning and studies. Through the raving success of our Language Teacher program which coaches the learning of any language, we decided to add the U-Learn where now you can learn in your sleep. The interactive program does everything for you while you close your eyes so learning can occur anywhere and anytime. We even included the jetBook Reader into it as well. Upload any e-book into the device and read on for as long as you wish. It's possible to even make photo albums by copying them from your computer to the Partner P900 and carry them along wherever you go."

In addition to everything the P900 has to offer, a responsive Audio Phrasebook delivers the power of instant communication with 14,000 of the most necessary phrases for everyday communication that are be spoken aloud in crystal-clear digital recordings. It even includes the most complete dictionary, Full Text Translation module with optional connection to Ectaco/C-Pen scanner, crosswords, learning games, an MP3 player, FM Radio, and a voice recorder. These features make the Partner P900 a truly universal handheld that lets anyone succeed in language learning and communication.

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Presenting the newest French <-> Arabic electronic text translator with voice recognition!

We are happy to present a unique French <-> Arabic ECTACO Partner FA900 talking electronic translator which is capable of translating whole sentences in either direction if you type them in via the regular keyboard. The new translator has a hi-res color display and a bilingual user’s interface which makes it a perfect language tool for both Arabic and French native speakers. The device includes an extensive phrasebook which lets you speak any phrase in French to have it translated into Arabic and vice versa. Once recognized, the translated phrase is spoken out loud using a real human voice as recorded by native speakers. Also included is the most extensive 212,000 entry dictionary featuring synthesized voice output of Arabic and French words.

The new FA900 model comes equipped with our interactive Language Teacher system which employs one of the most effective methods ever designed for language study based on visual and hearing perception of words, phrases and dialogues. The Language Teacher system is good for learning both Arabic and French.

The Partner FA900 also features our customizable jetBook eBook reader and a video player with multiple file support. As an additional benefit, the new model includes the English to English explanatory dictionary containing more than 70,000 head words with complete definitions and our talking 39 language Picture Dictionary with pronunciation for all words.

Click here to get more information on the new Partner FA900.


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ECTACO presents the latest Russian <-> Spanish talking electronic translator!

The most powerful Russian <-> Spanish ECTACO Partner RS900 talking electronic translator ever released is finally here with us. The new device includes a large vocabulary base of over 105,000 words and over 14,000 phrases featuring True Voice human pronunciation of Russian and Spanish entries. The new model has a hi-res color display and a bilingual user’s interface which makes it very easy to operate. Our latest Speech Recognition module allows speaking any phrase from the phrasebook in order to have it recognized and translated both ways. It will also speak out the translation for you using a real human voice as recorded by native speakers.

The new RS900 model comes equipped with our interactive Language Teacher system with hands-free, eyes-free U-Learn™ Car Tutor. Covering a whole set of exciting games and quizzes, it lets you improve your language skills in no time at all. Using the unique Word-of-the-day utility, you will get a Memorize splash screen each time you start an application that will show you a useful word or phrase, a translation and a corresponding picture.

Also included is our customizable jetBook eBook reader and a video player with multiple file support. As an additional benefit, the new model includes the English to English explanatory dictionary containing more than 70,000 head words with complete definitions and our talking 39 language Picture Dictionary with pronunciation for all words.

Click here to get more information on the new Partner RS900.

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The most powerful Partner 900 Grand series translators with GPS receiver are finally here!

ECTACO is proud to present the newest and most powerful Partner 900 Grand series devices which come with the GPS receiver in the standard package. All you need it to clip this tiny attachment on to the unit and it will record its own position, time, date, speed, heading and altitude so you never lose your way.

The new Grand series models are currently available for the most popular European and Asian languages and include the most extensive vocabulary yet with human voice output, a Full Text Translation system with synthesized voice output, an easy to use bilingual translating Picture Dictionary, a complete English explanatory dictionary and our most sophisticated speech recognition system. Also included is a handy scanning pen allowing you to grab any printed text from any paper surface and have it converted into the target language.

These smart new translators contain everything you need for superior translation and accurate communication and much more. As an additional benefit, the Partner Grand series come equipped with our customizable translating jetBook e-book reader with multiple file format support. In addition, the new models allow creating exclusive User Dictionaries which let you store your own personalized lists of frequently used words and a history function remembers the most recent translations providing instant access to the information you need most to understand and be understood.

Click here to find more information on the Partner 900 Grand series electronic translators.

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The ECTACO SpeechGuard MD-5 allows emergency responders and medical personnel in Haiti to benefit from instant speech-to-speech communication

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, ECTACO, Inc., the worldwide leader in hand-held translation devices releases the first English-Haitian (Creole) Speech-to-Speech Medical translator.

For 20 years as developers and manufacturers of linguistic products, ECTACO has helped millions of people worldwide to overcome language barriers. The SpeechGuard handheld speech-to-speech device was initially requested by the Department of Defense to be developed for translation use by the military. It has subsequently become used by many, including law enforcement, medical and Homeland Security agencies throughout the United States.

ECTACO's SpeechGuard MD-5 is the only handheld electronic speech-to-speech device with first responder and medical content that affords translation from English to Haitian (Creole). Simply speak into the SpeechGuard in English and it will translate and repeat what you say in Haitian (Creole) instantly based on the recognition of its Audio Phrasebook. "In support of disaster recovery and emergency medical efforts in Haiti, we have readily made available thousands of dedicated units to be shipped expeditiously," notes ECTACO CEO, David Lubinitsky.

The handheld and pocket sized SpeechGuard is very easy to operate and takes 15-20 minutes of handling to get familiarized with its use. Users can speak a command, phrase, or question into SpeechGuard and be instantly understood in numerous languages based on the modification. Modifications include PD-5 (Law Enforcement), GI-5 (Military), HS-5 (Homeland Security), and MD-5 (Medical).

Orders can be placed with Tim Houston at 718-728-1728 or by email at timothy.houston@ectacoinc.com or visit www.speechguard.com for further information.

ECTACO, Inc., is a New York based company specializing in multilingual global communications, with 20 years of experience, 18 offices, and millions of satisfied customers.

SOURCE ECTACO, Inc.

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