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  Babylon.com Joins the One Laptop per Child Project Foundation by Contributing Dictionary Content in 16 Languages

    TEL AVIV, Israel, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon.com (TASE: BBYL), a
world leading provider of online dictionary and translation solutions has
contributed dictionaries with translations into 16 languages from its
proprietary dictionaries to the nonprofit humanitarian One Laptop per Child
project. Until now, this is the largest contribution of words and
definitions to OLPC.

    "Education is of much importance to Babylon, which is always seeking to
intensify its value, and contributing to such a significant cause is
extremely meaningful." Alon Carmeli, CEO, Babylon Ltd.: "Having Babylon's
dictionary content integrated into the XO laptops, will not only deliver
the world to the children, but the children will have the opportunity to
express themselves and explore the world. " Carmeli further added: "Babylon
is very excited about the fact that it has succeeded to deliver the
dictionary content to OLPC before the next distribution of the 500,000 XO
laptops worldwide."

    "Babylon dictionaries has contributed a basic set of 2500-word
dictionaries with translations in 16 languages for use in OLPC projects.
This is the largest coordinated contribution of words and definitions to
OLPC to date. There are related projects going on to develop the dictionary
projects such as words and speak." - OLPC

    About Babylon Ltd.

    Babylon.com (TASE: BBYL) is a leading provider of online dictionary and
translation solutions. The Babylon.com user base exceeds 40 million desktop
installations. Babylon sold more than 2 Million licenses of the software to
private users and organizations in more than 180 countries.


For more information about Babylon, visit http://www.babylon.com Press contact: Dalia Preisler Babylon Ltd. Tel: +972-3-5382148 Email: press@babylon.com
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