[Promotion-technology] bookshare and code factory team up

[David Andrews]

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>Bookshare.org and Code Factory Announce Partnership To Introduce
>Mobile Technology for Print Disabled Readers
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Contact: Ann Harrison - Benetech - 001 (415) 637-5262
>Contact: Caroline Ragot - Code Factory - 0034 93 733 70 66
>Palo Alto, CA - Barcelona, Spain,
>January 30, 2008
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>Bookshare.org and Code Factory have announced the formation of a
>partnership to introduce technology that allows Bookshare.org members
>to read digital books on their mobile devices. Code Factory will demo
>V2.0 of its Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile at the conference of the
>Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) at the Caribe Royale
>All-Suite Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA. The
>demo will be hosted at the Benetech booth (Lobby 2) on Friday,
>February 1 from 4:30 to 5:00 pm.
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>Code Factory launched V2.0 of Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile
>Smartphones in November of 2007 and will soon release V2.0 of Mobile
>Speak for Pocket PCs. Both products feature a built-in software
>application for reading Braille formatted (BRF) files with synthesized
>speech output, Braille, or both, as well as a Bookshare.org unpacking
>utility. "For a long time we've admired Bookshare.org for its great
>achievements in increasing access to books for the blind and visually
>impaired," said Eduard Sanchez, Code Factory CEO. "Our American users
>constantly tell us that the excellent Bookshare.org services have
>changed their lives."
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>"We are excited about the possibility of Bookshare.org subscribers
>reading books on their mobile devices using Code Factory's screen
>readers. We will examine the Mobile Speak product line closely and
>test features that allow users to access Bookshare.org on the move,
>anytime and anywhere," said Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, the
>nonprofit organization that operates Bookshare.org.
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>About Bookshare.org
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>Bookshare.org is an online community that allows people with print
>disabilities to legally download books and periodicals to be read as
>Braille, large print or synthetic speech. Offering the world's largest
>accessible library of scanned books and periodicals, Bookshare.org
>received a $32 million five-year award from the U.S. Department of
>Education to significantly expand the availability of accessible
>electronic books and software for reading those books. Bookshare.org
>is operated by Benetech, a Palo Alto, CA-based nonprofit technology
>development organization that creates social enterprise projects for
>the disability, literacy and human rights communities.
>
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>About Code Factory
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>Code Factory is a software company committed to the development of
>products designed to remove barriers to the accessibility of mobile
>technology for the blind and visually impaired. Code Factory is the
>leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille
>interfaces for a wide range of mainstream mobile devices including
>Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones as well as Pocket
>PC phones and PDAs. Code Factory is the only accessible software
>provider to support close to two hundred different phone models
>working on the GSM, CDMA and WCDMA networks. To learn more about Code
>Factory and its mission of bringing complete accessibility to mobile
>devices, visit http://www.codefactory.es.