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BEIKS Announces BlackBerry Talking Phrase Books for International Travelers

On July 17, 2011, In Mobile Computing, By admin

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) February 23, 2006

BEIKS LLC, the world leader in language and reference applications for mobile users, is proud to announce the release of its popular talking phrase books for the RIM’s BlackBerry platform.

The talking phrase books are compact electronic versions of the classic paperback phrase books widely used by international travelers and, commonly, by language students. With simple and intuitive interface, based on the BEIKS reference technology used in other language and reference solutions, the phrase book applications are optimized for easy one-hand operation and optimal performance.

Once fully installed, a phrase book does not require or utilize wireless connection, making it ideal companionship and learning guide, for example in the airplane to a foreign country.

BEIKS is the first company to introduce such phrase books to the BlackBerry community, as well as the first to enhance them with audio pronunciations by native language speakers (limited by device capabilities).

The initial release consists of phrase books translating from English to French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.

BEIKS says the set is to be further expanded with natively localized versions for the German, French and Spanish users, as well as with additional languages like Dutch, Turkish, Chinese and others.

The phrase books are designed to work on any BlackBerry handheld running BlackBerry OS version 4.0 or higher.

Voice pronunciations are optional component of the installation, which only operates on devices equipped with hardware allowing this feature.

Those include all recently released audio-enabled BlackBerry models featuring ADPCM encoded audio playback:

BlackBerry 7100 series

BlackBerry 7105 series

BlackBerry 7130 series

BlackBerry 8700 series

Trial downloads are available at the BEIKS website at http://www.beiks.com or directly, over the air, through http://mobile.beiks.com.

Products can be purchased and activated directly from the BlackBerry’s built-in browser or via regular desktop browser.

Each pair of languages is priced at $ 19.95 and there are language bundles offering more languages at discounted price.

For a complete list of the BEIKS language and reference titles for BlackBerry visit http://blackberry.beiks.com.

About BEIKS LLC

BEIKS LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS

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Beiks and LWW Deliver Popular Medical Dictionary and Doctors Reference Titles via BlackBerry

On July 16, 2011, In Mobile Computing, By admin

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) February 14, 2005

Beiks LLC, the world leader in reference and language titles for mobile devices, and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW), a top publisher in the healthcare industry, have teamed to provide anytime/anywhere access to medical reference information to users of the BlackBerry® platform developed by Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM). By providing access to medical dictionaries and other reference works via BlackBerry, Beiks and LWW have delivered on the promise of mobile access to medical reference information on one of the most popular wireless connectivity platforms in the healthcare industry.

“Beiks is proud to be working with LWW, the world leader in scientific and medical reference literature,” said Bobby Kolev, president and CEO of Beiks LLC. “We are honored to be selected as an electronic publisher of their works.”

The library of medical reference works available to BlackBerry users has begun with Stedman’s Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions, which gives access to the core language of medicine and allied health, including terminology, definitions, tabular material, and valuable appendix sections. Coming soon to Beiks’ collection will be LWW’s Physician’s Drug Handbook, providing instant information on more than 900 generic and 2,000 trade name drugs.

“As the number of health care providers using BlackBerry as a business tool grows, the need for clinical applications and medical reference material–both off-line and on-line—increases significantly,” said Seema Esteves, president of Circul Technology, a Canadian-based high-tech training company that focuses specifically on helping organizations use BlackBerry to their full potential. “We look forward to the suite of products that Beiks and LWW are bringing to market to fill this current void.”

Based on Beiks’ mobile industry standard BDicty Dictionary Reader, the LWW medical reference works for BlackBerry is specially optimized for one-hand operation, minimal memory requirements and optimal access speed. It can be installed on the device’s main memory and once installed does not require or utilize a network connection. Healthcare enterprises will soon be able to provide even greater access to mobile reference data leveraging enterprise server connections, via the Mobile Data Service feature of BlackBerry Enterprise Server™.

BDicty Dictionary solutions are designed to work on J2ME-based BlackBerry devices running handheld software v3.6 and higher. Beiks’ database format allows all reference data to be highly compressed, resulting in faster searches and less memory requirements. Other versions of BDicty are available for Palm OS and Pocket PC devices.

Stedman’s Concise Medical Dictionary is currently available at MSRP of US $ 39.95 and Physician’s Drug Handbook will soon be offered at MSRP of US $ 49.95. Other related reference works are currently available in the BlackBerry section of Beiks’ website at http://www.beiks.com.

About Beiks LLC

Beiks LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and BlackBerry®. Founded in 1997, the company is best known for its BDicty Dictionary Reader, one of the most popular dictionaries for handheld devices on the market.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. Palm, Palm OS and PalmSource are registered trademarks of, and Palm Powered is a trademark of, Palm Trademark Holding Company, LLC. Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Public relations contact:

Kevin Doel

TalonPR, Inc.

785-273-9660

kevin@talonpr.com

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Beiks Releases English-Russian Dictionary for RIM BlackBerry Devices

On July 16, 2011, In Mobile Computing, By admin

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 14, 2004

Beiks LLC, the world leader in reference and language titles for mobile devices, announces the launch of its English-Russian Dictionary for RIM BlackBerry devices. Beiks is the first company to enable the display and use of languages not natively supported by BlackBerries such as those based on Cyrillic, Greek or Hebrew. In particular, Cyrillic is vital for proper display of the Russian language.

The company was also the first to deliver full offline solutions for language, medical, law, business and other reference dictionaries for BlackBerry devices.

The comprehensive English to Russian Dictionary for BlackBerry, which features 20,000 unique English terms, is designed for the needs of English-speaking professionals challenged with communicating in colloquial Russian when access to a desktop translator or reference guide is either not accessible or convenient. Its content is focused on the business environment and commonly-used business terms and can thus be of a great use to business travelers or translators.

Based on the mobile industry standard Beiks Dictionary Reader, the Beiks English to Russian Dictionary is specially optimized for one-hand operation, minimal memory requirements and optimal access speed. Once installed the dictionary does NOT require or utilize network connection.

The Beiks reference solutions are designed to work on the newer generation of J2ME Blackberry devices running OS 3.6 and higher. Beiks’ proprietary database format especially developed for BlackBerry devices allows all reference data to be highly compressed, making the most of RIM J2ME extensions and resulting in faster searches and less memory requirements. Other versions of the Beiks Dictionary Reader series are available for Palm OS, Pocket PC and Linux devices, with promises for Symbian series support early next year.

Current product offerings vary from free to $ 29.95 and can be found in the BlackBerry section of Beiks’ website at http://www.beiks.com.

About Beiks LLC

Beiks LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and J2ME®. Founded in 1997, the company is best known for its Beiks Dictionary Reader /BDicty/, one of the most popular dictionaries for handheld devices on the market. Beiks’ product list now includes a growing catalog of over 250 titles across all major mobile platforms. Those include the award-winning BDicty Dictionary Reader dictionary series, games such as NetWalk and Karateka, the Wall Street Financial Assistant business calculator, the family planner Woman Calendar and many others.

RIM and Blackberry are registered trademarks of Research In Motion, Inc.

Palm, Palm OS and PalmSource are registered trademarks of, and Palm Powered is a trademark of, Palm Trademark Holding Company, LLC. Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Public relations contact:

Kevin Doel

TalonPR, Inc.

785-273-9660

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BEIKS Announces BlackBerry English-Spanish Translator for Paramedics, Fire Fighters and Other Emergency Workers

On July 13, 2011, In Mobile Computing, By admin

DALLAS (PRWEB) March 22, 2006

BEIKS LLC, the world leader in language and reference applications for mobile users, is proud to announce the release of its talking English-Spanish translator for emergency workers for the RIM’s BlackBerry platform.

The paramedic’s English-Spanish translator for BlackBerry is aimed at emergency personnel with little or no knowledge of Spanish language who have to operate in environment likely to require such knowledge; it has been assembled by operational paramedics over the course of their field experience over the years.

Included are approximately 800 essential words and phrases. Those include cover questions, commands, people, places, conditions, drugs, medications, anatomy terms and more.

Once fully installed, the phrase book does not require or utilize wireless connection, making it reliable source even in areas without network coverage.

A handy lookup function provides for instant filtering of all included entries containing the desired word or token.

BEIKS is the first company to introduce such phrase book to the BlackBerry community, as well as the first to enhance it with audio pronunciations by a native language audio pronunciation.

The phrase book is designed to work on any BlackBerry handheld running BlackBerry OS version 4.0 or higher.

The audio pronunciation is optional and will only operate on devices equipped with hardware to allow ADPCM or MP3 encoded audio playback. Those include, but are not limited to the following:

BlackBerry 7100 series (excluding 7100i model)

BlackBerry 7105 series

BlackBerry 7130 series

BlackBerry 8700 series

A trial version of the product is available in the BlackBerry section of the BEIKS website at http://blackberry.beiks.com.

Once installed, the product can be purchased and activated directly from the BlackBerry’s built-in browser or via regular desktop browser.

The price for a single license is only $ 24.95. Site licenses at discounted prices are also available.

About BEIKS LLC

BEIKS LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS

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