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TLD
07-26-2007, 08:27 PM
from 2/07 article

"We are very excited about the imminent consumer launch of onkosh.mobi, the mobile version of Orascom's new Arabic-language search portal, onkosh.com," said Khaled Bichara, Orascom Telecom Holding Board Member & Chief Fixed and Portal Officer, Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA. "We will be greatly enhancing this in the coming months on an ongoing basis with data from the dotMobi mobile content database, to give our Arabic users the full mobile web experience. Onkosh is built from the ground up with the Arabic user in mind, utilizing advanced NLP (Natural Language Processing) to improve search results."

Orascom Telecom Holding, a dotMobi investor, is one of the first companies to work with dotMobi on the cross-integration of mobile data with the development of onkosh.mobi, a mobile version of its Arabic-language search engine, http://www.onkosh.com/. The two companies will work together to deliver sophisticated mobile search functionality for consumers and users of onkosh.mobi.

Scandiman
07-26-2007, 09:17 PM
Where did you see the article?

dentalpro
07-26-2007, 09:59 PM
BTW...my neighbor is from Saudi...he says EVERYONE in his country uses mobile devices from 10 year olds on up...they can even pay their household bills with them

TLD
07-27-2007, 10:44 PM
Where did you see the article?

http://media.netpr.pl/PressOffice/PressRelease.72391.po?print_version=true

http://mtld.mobi/node/449

TLD
07-27-2007, 10:47 PM
saw this as well..

"It may come as no surprise that the USA is responsible for the bulk of our registrations - currently 60% of our market. Runner-up is China with 10% while Germany represents 7% of the market, UK 4% and Canada 3%. In fact, Russia does not even feature in our top ten countries."