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Intertainment’s Ortsbo Releases Patent Pending One2One App For Windows Phone 7.5
NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES / SAN MATEO / TORONTO – December 8, 2011 – Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or the "Company") (TSXV:INT / OTCQX: ITMTF / FRA: I4T) announces that its social media, real time, experiential communications platform, Ortsbo.com (www.ortsbo.com) has released its patent pending Ortsbo One2One (“O2O”) app for Windows Phone 7.5 mobile devices via the Marketplace at
www.windowsphone.com/en-US/marketplace Ortsbo One2One is initially an advertising sponsored app that has been localized for download by users from Windows Phone Marketplace and includes support for translation to and from languages that are written from right to left.
O2O is an easy to use, powerful tool that any traveler can’t be without. O2O allows you to have a one device conversation with someone seamlessly in over 50 languages. Ortsbo O2O enables mobile phones and portable computing devices to communicate in 2 separate languages directly with the device user and the recipient. A user can type a message in one language and by the action of simply moving the device, the message is instantly translated into the 2nd selected language.
The O2O app is ideal for traveling and for communicating with an individual or group, where the user does not speak the native language. Ortsbo’s One2One translates your inputted text by using Ortsbo's powerful experiential translation platform allowing a user to communicate with the recipient in a free flowing style without the need for guides or other translation devices.
The Windows 7.5 Operating System (“OS”) has dozens of new features including speech to text and driving directions providing an enhanced consumer engagement experience.
According to research analysts IDC, Nokia will begin introducing Windows Phone-powered smartphones in large volumes in 2012 and with Nokia’s transition to Windows Phone, the OS is expected to reach and defend a number 2 rank with more than 20% market in 2015.
“Windows 7.5 provides an ideal platform to showcase Ortsbo’s patent pending O2O platform, as the Company continues to deliver on its mandate to provide exceptional product offerings for the experiential language market,” said David Lucatch, CEO Intertainment / President Ortsbo Inc.
Ortsbo, together with its Commobility team continues to develop secured IP mobile and portable computing technology initiatives, including solutions for multi-lingual communications, location based and proximity communications solutions as well as additional device solutions for BlackBerry. Details of future products applications will be released as they become available.
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