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BOWNE SPEEDS UP WORLDWIDE PRODUCT RELEASE July 26, 2001 -- Bowne Global Solutions, a division of Bowne & Co, Inc. (NYSE: BNE), has announced ExtraGLOBAL 2.0, a web-based project extranet solution that helps companies to speed up their international product releases. The launch follows successful, rigorous testing by key Bowne clients such as Commerce One and Motorola. ExtraGLOBAL 2.0 is a secure self-service project management extranet that provides Bowne's clients and employees with a single point of access in real-time to critical project information throughout every stage leading up to a new product launch. The extranet gives access to underlying applications which can be used to leverage core production knowledge to reduce the time and cost of getting products to market. "ExtraGLOBAL 2.0 has been an unexpected added value of working with Bowne," said James Downton, manager of Global Services, Motorola. "It is a great way to keep track of a large, complex product localisation project, without trading dozens of e-mails with dozens of people every day. The high-quality of Bowne's GoingGLOBAL technology is a strong complement to the company's expertise in delivering high-quality localisation solutions." LIONBRIDGE COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF DATA DIMENSIONS July
16, 2001 --VeriTest Division
Becomes One of the Industry’s Largest Providers of Global Software
Certification, Outsourced Testing and Release Engineering Lionbridge
Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX), a provider of solutions for worldwide
deployment of technology and content, announced the completion of its
acquisition of Data Dimensions, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDIM), a leading provider of
quality assurance and testing services based in Bellevue, Wash. Data
Dimensions will now operate under the VeriTest brand. Following
this acquisition, VeriTest is now the leading Quality Assurance and Test
Outsource organisation in the industry. The combination of VeriTest's
extensive test, certification and international software release
engineering experience coupled with Data Dimensions testing, consulting
and applications maintenance services will allow customers to leverage the
collective best practices of the two organisations. With additional test
capabilities in key technology areas, 10 lab locations worldwide (Europe,
North America and Asia) and over 350 experienced testing professionals,
VeriTest now offers global software publishers rapid confirmation of their
products' capabilities and interoperability. VeriTest operations in
Ireland will continue to be centred at it's European Software Test Centre
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