Latest Version of Multilanguage SMART Board™ Software Features SMART Video Player
Free upgrade and multilanguage release reflect SMART’s international customer focus
Calgary, AB --- September 10, 2002 --- SMART Technologies Inc. announces that the latest SMART Board software for the Microsoft
Windows operating system is now available in ten languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Portuguese and Italian. The award-winning software, which works with the family of SMART Board interactive whiteboards and SMART Sympodium
interactive lecterns, features SMART Video Player and expanded functionality in SMART Notebook software and Microsoft Word and Excel applications. This latest version is now shipping with all SMART Board and Sympodium products. Customers with earlier versions can download the free upgrade of SMART Board software including SMART Board driver 7.1.1. and SMART Notebook 2.5.1 software at www.smarttech.com/support/software.
“SMART continues to deliver on its commitment to provide easy-to-use, yet feature-rich software for customers in their native languages,” says Nancy Knowlton, president and COO of SMART Technologies Inc. “By providing new multilanguage SMART Board software as a free upgrade, we can ensure SMART customers around the world have access to the latest innovations in whiteboarding software.”
SMART Board Software Features
With SMART Board software, presenters can write over top of any computer application or Web page, edit notes and save screen captures to a single file. SMART Notebook whiteboarding software, provides unlimited whiteboarding space and all notes and images become objects that users can move and resize. With SMART Recorder, users can also capture everything that happens on the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. SMART Board software is compatible with both Windows-based and Macintosh computers.
SMART Board software for the Windows operating system includes SMART Board driver 7.1.1, SMART Notebook 2.5.1 software and a new feature, SMART Video Player. With SMART Video Player software, users can write over moving or still video from a software file, VCR, video camera, projector, scanner, document camera or other hardware connected to a computer – without purchasing additional software or specialized hardware. The new Notebook software also allows users to create and customize templates.
Pricing and Availability
This multilanguage release of SMART Board software, including SMART Video Player and expanded functionality, currently ships with all SMART Board and Sympodium products. Customers with earlier versions can download the free upgrade at www.smarttech.com/support/software.
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For more information, please contact:
Public Relations
SMART Technologies Inc.
300, 1207 - 11th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB CANADA T3C 0M5
Phone +1.403.802.3337 Fax +1.403.228.2500
pr@smarttech.com
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