Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 New Features

NOW AVAILABLE VIA WEB LICENSE! Kurzweil 3000™ for Macintosh® is now available anywhere you have an Internet connection via our Web License delivery model utilizing the same VPORT™ license manager as Kurzweil 3000 for Windows®. Simply install the Macintosh version anywhere your students or teachers need access, provide them a user name and password created in VPORT, and they can login and use Kurzweil 3000 to meet all their academic and instructional needs.

Kurzweil 3000™ is the premier reading, writing and learning software for struggling students. Because Kurzweil 3000 is content independent, teachers in elementary, middle and secondary schools alike use it to help students succeed in the classroom regardless of their curriculum.

Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh is designed specifically for Macintosh computers with a simple, graphic user interface that appeals to a wide range of students from elementary school to college.

For more information, contact Adaptive Technology Resources at 800-770-8474 or www.adaptivetr.com

ABiSee Inc. Announces that Eye-Pal and Zoom-Ex are now Compatible with Kurzweil™

 Acton, MA, Thursday, January 5, 2010: ABiSee, jointly with Cambium Learning Technologies, have collaborated to establish compatibility between their premier products. This new functionality enables Kurzweil 1000 software users to instantly scan and read printed material. Users of the ABiSee Eye-Pal & Zoom-Ex can now have access to the broad variety of reading, learning and productivity features found in Kurzweil 1000.

ABiSee Eye-Pal and Zoom-Ex are portable camera-based scanners/readers that convert printed material into speech. Lightning fast image acquisition and processing, accurate OCR and the most advanced text-to-speech technology enable visually impaired to listen to human-like reading aloud of a wide variety of printed material.

Kurzweil 1000 is award-winning software that makes print or electronic text accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. It incorporates communication and productivity tools to ease and enhance the reading, writing, and learning experience.