Paragon Software (SHDD) and MDS Holdings, the sole official distributor of Handspring in Central and Eastern Europe, have recently continued their mutual localization project, started in 1999. As agreed for the year 2002, Paragon Software (SHDD) and MDS will localize Handspring Treo product line into 15 European languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Treo localization will be based on PiLoc technology, developed and deployed by Paragon Software (SHDD) for a number of Palm OS based devices in more than 30 countries around the world. Localization software will be bundled by MDS with all Treo units sold free of charge for end users and resellers.
Beside this agreement, Paragon Software (SHDD) will develop on its own and with its local partners Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Greek and Hebrew localizations of Treo.
The localization software PiLoc for Handspring Treo will be available to end users through Paragon's on-line channels.