WIZCOM TECHNOL. : Technology launches the new Quicktionary®2 Kanji - Portable Japanese reader for WW distribution

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      WizCom Technology launches the new Quicktionary®2 Kanji -
            Portable Japanese reader for WW distribution

 The product was jointly developed with Japan 21 (Wizcom distributor
                              in Japan)

Tokyo, June 23, 2008 - WizCom Technologies Ltd. (WizCom) (Prime
Standard: WZM, IL 0010830706), a global provider of portable,
handheld scanning and translating Pens that enable and enhance
reading-related activities and business productivity, announced today
in a press conference in Tokyo the launch of its new product, the
Quicktionary 2 Kanji Reader that scans Kanji and translates the words
into English or Japanese.  The company intends to sell the product in
Japan and around the globe including to worldwide community of
Japanese language students. Orders for the new products have already
been received from Sweden, the UK, and other European distributors as
well as from Far East countries including Hong Kong, China and
Taiwan.

Japan 21 Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, www.japan21.co.jp ) that hosted the
press conference in Tokyo already started to sell the product in
Japan on April 10th. and has obtained a great media attention from TV
and Radio stations, Magazines and Internet news portals. The WW
retail price of the new product is $279 (29,800 Yen in Japan)
excluding tax...

According to Michael Kenan, CEO of Wizcom Technologies "There are
many good dictionary platforms available today, such as books, PC
based dictionaries, web-based dictionaries and electronic devices,
however, none of the conventional dictionary platforms have the
easy-to-use input method WizCom has developed for defining Kanji
character strings if a user is not familiar with the Kanji  text he
is reading".

Amir Berenson, Wizcom VP for Business Development and Sales,
participated in the press conference in Tokyo. He emphasized to the
audience that "the Quicktionary2 Kanji Reader Pen addresses a major
challenge to non-Japanese students by giving them a fast and easy way
to understand and translate Kanji to English via a simple scan of the
words and idioms. A case study was done in the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem last month, using Japanese language students who were
handed the product after a fifteen minute basic introduction to the
Pen. The response to the Pen as compared to the current products
available was simple overwhelming. The students noted that the
Quicktionary2 Kanji was more accurate, quicker and easier to use,
with a more intuitive user interface that any of the products they
were currently using".

The product has been welcomed by Wizcom distributors around the
globe. The multiple dictionaries available on the Pen serve the needs
of not only Japanese language students but the wider Japanese
community as well, as the Pen not only translates from English to
Japanese and vice-versa, it also contains a built-in Japanese to
Japanese dictionary.

The product supports all 2,000+ Japanese daily-used Kanji characters
and is suitable for all Japanese readers, from primary school age to
senior citizens who do not like to use standard dictionary
platforms.  This product is very suitable for people who can speak
Japanese but are unable to read it because of the Kanji barriers.

It has taken more than two years of joint development efforts between
Wizcom Technologies in Israel and Japan21 linguists to implement the
Japanese OCR and dictionary databases into the product. "Language
always developed before technologies and technologies always need to
absorb unreasonable language requirements", said Mr. Mike Kato, CEO
of Japan21.

The Quicktionary2 Kanji Reader's key features are:
-        World-first Japanese OCR and Japanese dictionary combination
in a portable platform
-        Three dictionary databases from very popular Sanseido  Daily
Concise dictionary series
-        Unique  algorithm to  manage Japanese  OCR problems  arising
from the combination of three characters sets
-         Unique   algorithm   to  divide   Japanese   strings   into
corresponding word segments
-        English OCR  for English  to Japanese and  Japanese OCR  for
Japanese to Japanese and Japanese to English
-        Horizontal and vertical mode for Japanese scanning
-        Text-to-speech for English words and idioms

For additional  information  regarding  WizCom  Technologies,  please
visit www.wizcomtech.com.


About WizCom Group

WizCom Technologies Ltd. is the world's leading producer of personal,
portable  scanning  Pens  that  enable  and  enhance  reading-related
activities,  text   processing  and   business  productivity.   These
pocket-sized, user-friendly devices enable  people to understand  and
use printed material, anytime and anywhere, without disrupting  their
reading process. Our Pens are an invaluable support tool for students
of English as a first or  second language, as well as people  working
in   multilingual   environments,   enhancing   their   fluency   and
accelerating reading comprehension.

Ligature Ltd.  is  a  world-leading developer  of  Optical  Character
Recognition (OCR) technologies and  applications. The company  offers
an innovative approach to OCR-based solutions for specialized markets
partnering with  OEMs,  VARs  and  system  integrators  incorporating
CharacterEyes into software applications and hardware products.

Galil Microwaves Israel (2003) Ltd. is a third-party manufacturer and
assembler of  electronic modules  for microelectronic  and  microwave
components.


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