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Improved Mac Viewer Now Reads Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Microsoft® Word® files

icWord 1.2 opens, decompresses, views, and prints Microsoft® Word® files- without Word- in double-byte languages

Los Angeles, CA., May 22, 2001- The growing personal computer market outside of the United States, coupled with burgeoning global Internet usage, is compounding the familiar Mac user dilemma: How to move documents across platforms is being complicated by the need to access documents created in other languages. Panergy's icWord, the Microsoft® Word® viewer for the Mac, solved the first problem when it was introduced last year. The new release of icWord solves the second problem: Users can open, view, and print Microsoft® Word® documents created in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other double-byte languages.

The launch of icWord 1.2 coincides with the release of new data from Nielsen/NetRatings and Ipsos-Reid that affirms the increasing importance of the Asia-Pacific region to the Internet economy. According to Ipsos-Reid, US Internet penetration is hitting a plateau, while the South Korean and Singapore markets are outpacing the European markets' growth rate. Nielsen/NetRatings supports this with the finding that South Korea is now the world's fourth largest Internet user base, with 22.3 million users. Taiwan's 10 million Internet users are also boosting Internet penetration in the Asia-Pacific region.

Globalization is one factor in creating demand for a product like icWord. The other is Microsoft® Word's increasingly robust functionality. Embedded graphics, tables, and sophisticated formatting are usually lost when opening documents on a Mac that does not have Microsoft® Word® installed on the machine. icWord enables users to view documents as they were originally created, with tables, graphics, and formatting intact. Version 1.2 of icWord offers improvements in graphics, table, and footnote viewing. Documents are now also sound-enabled.

"We're proud that Macdownload.com dubbed icWord a 'lifesaver application'. Our mission is to offer a reliable, easy-to-use utility that makes life just a little bit easier for Mac users around the world," says Mickey Sonnenschein, Panergy's Director of Marketing. "The Internet's rapid global adoption both enhances and complicates written communication. We're trying to make sharing Microsoft® Word® documents as easy as possible, for any Mac user, anywhere."

Panergy Ltd. introduced icWord to the worldwide Macintosh market in July 2000. Based in Israel, Panergy has been developing software for the Macintosh since 1992. Their products' acceptance and widespread usage by the Israeli desktop publishing industry is spreading to the North American and European desktop publishing markets as well.

Pricing and availability: icWord is distributed at the Web site http://www.icword.com. Single licenses are $19.95. Free full-functioning 30-day trials may be downloaded at http://www.icword.com. Volume pricing is available at volume@icword.com.

More Information: http://www.icword.com

Nancy Preiss
Campaigns That Work!
Los Angeles, CA.
npreiss@campaignsthatwork.com
818-249-9420