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Social Media Translator ORTSBO.com Delivers 50+ Languages for Apple iChat
Intertainment Media Subsidiary Ortsbo Enables Real Time Conversation Translation in Over 50 Languages to Both Mac and PC
NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 5, 2010 (Marketwire via COMTEX) --
Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:INT) announces that its social media, real time, translation platform, Ortsbo, is now available for Apple iChat. Included with Mac OS X, iChat is a rich instant messaging application that makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using text and video, whether they"re on a Mac or a PC. Ortsbo will enable Mac users to instantly chat with each other in over 50 languages with Ortsbo"s real time translation services. Ortsbo is now connected cross-platform to Mac and PC as well as all major search engine instant messaging ("IM") platforms including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! along with iChat, Facebook and Tencent QQ and QQ International, China"s largest chat platforms. Ortsbo provides instant translation capabilities to well over 1 billion active IM accounts.
Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com), built using Microsoft"s Silverlight platform, allows people to chat from a single online app in real time, in over 50 languages instantly with their friends, colleagues and families. Since its debut in late July, Ortsbo has received over 934,000 unique users resulting in over 1,123,000 online sessions and more than 2.1 Million page views generating in excess of 3 Million minutes of user engagement.
On September 21, 2010, Intertainment announced that a North American investment firm has made an offer to facilitate the purchase of 100% of Ortsbo Inc. for $30 Million USD by a US publicly listed company. The offer, which is currently under review by Intertainment, is subject to due diligence, definitive agreement and necessary approvals. The Company will provide additional details as they become available.
Ortsbo generates revenues from translation through the ability to implement multilingual contextual and display advertising and sponsorship. For the commercial market, Ortsbo can be licensed and customized for proprietary, secure applications allowing companies, educational institutions and government agencies to provide online translation services, chat and email with their constituents across a multitude of languages
With Ortsbo"s plug-in email module for Microsoft"s Outlook platform, the sender"s and recipient"s languages are easily selected and both languages are displayed in each email, allowing more in-depth language analysis for technical items. The email plug-in module will be retailed at $29.95 US, with a free, lite version, available for individuals who register with Ortsbo before November 30, 2010.
About Ortsbo:
www.ortsbo.com
Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com) enables real-time conversational translation in over 50 languages and seamlessly integrates with today"s most popular social media platforms.
Ortsbo Inc. is a division of Intertainment Media Inc., a Rich Media Applications leader, focused on delivering leading edge technology and marketing solutions enabling clients to power enhanced branding, loyalty initiatives and consumer engagement. Selected as a Microsoft Global Agency Initiative partner, Intertainment has joined an elite group of interactive agencies worldwide that Microsoft recommends to its Partners and Customers.
Intertainment Media owns and operates a number of key properties including Ad Taffy, itiBiti, Ortsbo and Magnum.
Headquartered in the Toronto, Canada region, with offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Mateo, CA, Intertainment Media Inc. is listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol "INT" (TSX VENTURE:INT).