Lionbridge's Logoport Web-Based Translation Memory Used by More Than 700 Clients...

Lionbridge's Logoport Web-Based Translation Memory Used by More Than 700
Clients and Over 14,000 Translators Around the Globe
Companies such as Hill-Rom, Perkin Elmer, and hi5 are Taking Advantage of
Freeway On-Demand Translation Management from Anywhere in the World with No
License Fees

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionbridge Technologies,
Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced that the Logoport(TM) web-based
translation memory and linguistic tools platform is now in use in over 700
client engagements daily, and more than 14,000 individual translators are
accessing the platform from around the globe. In addition, more than 300
customers are currently using Freeway(TM), Lionbridge's free, web-based
translation management platform. Clients and translators have chosen the power
of free, on-demand translation software to accelerate their time to global
markets and to lower costs, without buying and deploying costly software
systems.
The number of projects processed through the Freeway platform has
increased nearly ten-fold in the past year as customers rely on the Freeway
platform for a greater number of projects and programs. Clients such as
Sybase, LRN, Westtek, Cold Jet, SolidWorks, Tapiola Group, Boss Media,
SEGITTUR, WebTech Wireless, TeamStudio, NETELLER, and others, are using the
Freeway platform for their translation process.
"By working with Lionbridge and their Freeway system, we've expanded our
service to include eleven more language options -- all of which were turned
around quickly," said Mukund Bhagavan, director of strategy for hi5, a leading
international social network with more than 70 million members in over 200
nations. "As part of our focus to deliver a valuable and relevant experience
for our diverse global membership, we now provide language coverage for 80% of
the world's Internet users, with more translations in the works."
Freeway momentum continues to build as more customers deploy the automated
Web Services connection to their existing content management solutions,
without licensing, deploying, or integrating Global Management Systems (GMS)
or costly Global Information Management (GIM) software. These customers
recognize that their existing systems have all of the native functionality
required to manage the translation process when coupled with the Freeway and
Logoport platforms.
Logoport -- the numbers tell the story
Logoport is the only online translation tool that unites thousands of
translators in real-time collaboration, enables virtual workgroup
configuration across the globe, and updates all data instantaneously. The
Logoport translator community continues to grow with more than 2,000
translators accessing the system each day. Average monthly production volumes
have nearly doubled from 36 million words in January 2007, to more than 60
million words in recent months. In total, almost 500 million words were
translated interactively using the Logoport platform in 2007, in addition to
the several hundred million words automatically translated at reduced or no
cost by leveraging translation memories (TM).
In a recent multi-million dollar program delivered for a major Lionbridge
client, the Logoport platform and Lionbridge's full suite of language
automation tools provided substantially better translation leverage and re-
use, delivering over 20% in proven cost savings, when compared with another
commercial translation memory product.
Additional technology highlights include:

-- Open Standards: Underscoring Lionbridge's commitment to open standards
and industry neutrality, the Logoport platform offers native support
for XLIFF, standardizes file transfers, and streamlines how content in
a multitude of formats is delivered, translated, and returned to
clients.

-- Machine Translation Integration: The Logoport platform's real-time TM
sequencing capability allows for the easy integration of any machine
translation (MT) engine. In one customer case, several million words
were post-edited by applying the combination of both rule- and
statistical-based MT systems with Logoport, significantly reducing the
number of hours required for human translation.

-- Scalable Architecture: The move to a 64-bit architecture, as well as
optimization of the fuzzy search mechanisms, improves processing and
server response times by a factor of 30x, as measured by Lionbridge
internal benchmarks.

-- Enhanced Quality Tools: The expansion of an array of automated quality
control tools within the Logoport platform ensures high quality
translations, and shortens the manual, post translation QA processes
for Lionbridge clients.

"As record numbers of customers and translators experience the power of
our free, on-demand language technology platform, we have focused on
streamlining translation workflows and enhancing the user experience," said
Dave Flanagan, Chief Information Officer, Lionbridge. "Through these improved
processes, we are now able to support a much wider range of users from both
the client and translator sides of the translation project. This opens up new
opportunities as we continue to enable community-based translations, bring
more translators to individual projects, and systematically use other language
solutions such as machine translation on our clients' projects, and for their
benefit."
Both the Freeway and Logoport platforms are offered for free to Lionbridge
clients and its translation partners as the foundation of a high quality and
cost effective, managed service approach to translation. The Freeway platform
helps customers reduce turnaround times, lower the total cost of production,
and reach new markets quickly, without investing in additional staff or
software licenses. To learn more about Lionbridge language technology please
visit http://www.lionbridge.com/lionbridge/en-US/services/localization-
translation.htm (Due to length of URL, please copy and paste into Internet
browser).
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) is a leading provider of
translation, and outsource development and testing services. Lionbridge
combines global onshore, near shore and offshore resources with proven program
management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a
client's product and content lifecycle -- from development to globalization,
testing and maintenance. Global organizations in all industries rely on
Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of
global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise
applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge
maintains solution centers in 26 countries and provides services under the
Lionbridge(R) and VeriTest(R) brands. To learn more, visit
http://www.lionbridge.com.
Lionbridge is a registered trademark of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in
the U.S. and throughout the world. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Contact:
Jason King
Lois Paul & Partners
(781) 782-5793
jason_king@lpp.com

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Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.