Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software Group produces hard drive management tools, such as partition managers, boot managers, back up software and system duplication software. Paragon products are available in personal or corporate versions, for use on PCs, servers or networks...

’s Smart Handheld Devices Division (SHDD) & Epocware is mobile software company offering software for diverse classes of mobile devices (Android, bada

Bada (operating system)

Bada is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Samsung Electronics. Its name is derived from " ", meaning "ocean" or "sea" in Korean...

, BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

, iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, iPod touch

IPod touch

The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...

, Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...

, Symbian OS) and desktop computers (Mac OS

Mac OS

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...

, MS Windows), including multilingual on-line handwriting recognition, localization, business and productivity applications, games, 200+ multilingual mobile and desktop dictionaries and encyclopedias.

History

Paragon Software Group (PSG) was founded in 1994 as a student hobby group. Smart Handheld Device Division (SHDD), grew in 1995 out of the localization project for the Newton MessagePad. In 1998 Symbian utilities team of developers forms Epocware, a business unit focused on Symbian platform. In 2000 the company launches the first series of SlovoEd multilingual dictionaries for mobile platforms and by 2003 the line has included more than 100 language pairs. In 2007 company's mobile dictionary line added such dictionary brands as Duden

Duden

The Duden is a German dictionary, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880.Currently the Duden is in its 25th edition and published in 12 volumes, each covering different aspects like loan words, etymology, pronunciation, synonyms, etc...

, Harrap

Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary

Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary, published by Chambers Harrap Publishers, is one of the best known English/French bilingual dictionaries in the United Kingdom and France. The eighth edition was published in April 2007...

, Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language .Merriam-Webster Inc. has been a...

, Oxford and PONS. By 2010 Paragon's product line embraced all popular mobile devices and platforms.

Multilingual dictionaries

The series includes 200 multilingual dictionaries for 36 languages and language pair combinations

SlovoEd

SlovoEd and its family of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries for mobile devices and desktop PCs, bundled with the line of language-related reference works from Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG; Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd; Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin sarl; Langenscheidt Publishing Group; Larousse Editorial, S.L.; Merriam-Webster Inc.; Oxford University Press; PONS GmbH; Russkiy Yazik Media; Van Dale Lexicografie bv., offer the capability to translate to the widely used languages of the world.

Handy Weather

Handy Weather is mobile software allowing to access local, national and world weather information in both Celsius

Celsius

Celsius is a scale and unit of measurement for temperature. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death...

 and Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit . Within this scale, the freezing of water into ice is defined at 32 degrees, while the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees...

 in a mobile environment. Handy Weather's users can get detailed five-to-seven day weather forecasts, current weather conditions and hourly weather news supported by satellite weather maps, for thousands of cities worldwide.

Handy Shell

Handy Shell is an application replacing S60

S60 (software platform)

The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic...

 Active Standby screen. It allows the user to take control over the device’s screen and includes 3D interface, four customizable views (Today, Applications, Contacts, Photos) and five optional plugins (Digital clock, date, alarms; Application shortcuts; Phone indicators; Calendar events; Weather data). Dial and Start function allows to find the desired contact or to launch the applications directly from any Handy Shell’s view in T9

T9

The term T9 may refer to:* T9 , a predictive text input technology for mobile phones* LSWR T9 class, a British locomotive class* Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T9, a digital cameraand also:* Tech N9ne, a hip hop artist from Kansas City...

 manner.

Handy Safe

Handy Safe Pro application allows secure and convenient data management as well as 2-way data synchronization with PC thanks to Desktop utility included. It safely keeps all important information (passwords, credit card details, user names, codes, account numbers and other sensitive data) in one place, both on a mobile device and PC.

Handwriting Recognition

PenReader & PenReader Touch provide multilingual handwriting recognition software and custom solutions for corporate customers to support text input for devices.

Partners

PSG provides technology to a host of companies and partners including Acer, ASUS

ASUS

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...

, BenQ

BenQ

BenQ Corporation is a Taiwanese multi-national company that sells and markets consumer electronics, computing and communications devices under the "BenQ" brand name, which stands for the company slogan Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life .- Company :BenQ sells and markets technology products,...

, DELL

Dell

Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...

, E-TEN

E-TEN

E-TEN Information Systems Co., Ltd. was an electronics manufacturing company based in Taiwan, specializing in sophisticated handheld devices such as smartphones....

, Futjitsu-Siemens

Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Fujitsu Siemens Computers B.V. was a Japanese and German IT vendor. The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany...

, Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

, HTC, IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, LG

LG

LG may refer to:*LG Corp., a South Korean electronics and petrochemicals conglomerate*LG Electronics, an affiliate of the South Korean LG Group which produces electronic products* Lawrence Graham, a London headquartered firm of business lawyers...

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, MiTAC

MiTAC

MiTAC International Corp. is a Taiwan electronics company established December 8, 1982. It is a subsidiary of MiTAC Inc. ....

, Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

, NEC

NEC

, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....

, Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

, Orange, Palm

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

, PalmSource

PalmSource

ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. is a subsidiary of ACCESS which develops the Palm OS PDA operating system and its successor, the Access Linux Platform, as well as BeOS...

, Rover Computers, Samsung

Samsung

The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

, Siemens

Siemens

Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...

, Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....

, Swisscom

Swisscom

Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Along with Swiss Post, it is a successor company to the former state-owned PTT. Its headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern...

, T-Mobile

T-Mobile

T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

, Toshiba

Toshiba

is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

, Wacom

Wacom

in Krefeld, Germany. Wacom is a Japanese portmanteau: Wa for "harmony" or "circle", and Komu for "computer". Wacom tablets are notable for their use of a patented cordless, battery-free, and pressure-sensitive stylus or digital pen...

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Awards

The company was awarded Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status with ISV (Independent Software Vendor) and Mobility Solutions competencies, an addition to its Microsoft Tablet PC

Microsoft Tablet PC

A Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to a set of specifications announced in 2001 by Microsoft, for a pen-enabled personal computer, conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition...

Premier Partner status. The company has won Global Telecom Business Innovation Award 2009 and has been recognized with Software des Jahres, Samsung Developer Challenge and Handster Software Awards in 2009. Epocware became Forum Nokia PRO Member and participated in Symbian Platinum Partnership and UIQ Alliance. Additionally, it became Forum Nokia PRO Award Winner 2004; The Best Software Developer for Symbian OS Platform in 2002, and The Best Software Developer for Symbian UIQ Platform in 2005, as well as got 2009 Best App Awards in Handango Champion Awards.