| White Smoke, Inc. - Wilmington, DE. September 22nd | | | | placement of the "Check" and "Apply" buttons. |
| 2008 - White Smoke announces the immediate | | | | Style Checker |
| availability of White Smoke 2009, the latest version of | | | | White Smoke 2009 introduces a new collection of |
| its desktop English writing application. White Smoke | | | | style checking features. The White Smoke Style |
| 2009 is the premier writing tool for people who need | | | | Checker includes White Smoke's patented Text |
| quality written text, offering advanced grammar | | | | Enrichment, a unique technology that has established |
| checking, style checking, and spell checking, based on | | | | White Smoke in a field apart from competitors, as well |
| natural language processing (NLP) technology. These | | | | as a range of new features that address overall |
| core features are supplemented by English lessons, a | | | | writing style. Users will be notified of incomplete |
| comprehensive dictionary-thesaurus, and a range of | | | | sentences, use of slang and IM speak, and informal |
| document templates. The White Smoke 2009 release | | | | sentence structures. These additional style checking |
| makes the White Smoke desktop application an even | | | | features make White Smoke 2009 a great leap |
| more essential tool for computer-based writing tasks | | | | forward from previous versions of White Smoke, and |
| on a PC. | | | | consolidate the White Smoke mission of creating an |
| "White Smoke 2009 brings our writing technologies to | | | | "all-in-one" writing tool. |
| a new level of sophistication," claims Hilla Ovil-Brenner, | | | | Grammar Checker |
| White Smoke CEO. "As a result of over 6 months of | | | | White Smoke 2009 introduces new grammar |
| intensive user testing, we have made important | | | | algorithms and updates to existing algorithms. Key new |
| changes to the interface to enhance usability, and | | | | detections include confusions between countable and |
| incorporated many new algorithms to address writing | | | | non-countable nouns (much/many, less/fewer), |
| style issues. White Smoke 2009 is a mature product | | | | comparative/superlative mismatches (more nicer, less |
| for accurate proofreading and editing, whether you are | | | | nicest), and recognition of run-on sentences. Updates |
| a blogger, an at-home writer, or a corporate | | | | to existing grammar algorithms have further improved |
| professional." | | | | the precision of White Smoke's corrections over a |
| New GUI | | | | wider variety of possible sentence constructions. |
| White Smoke 2009 introduces a new GUI with an | | | | White Smoke 2009 - An English Writing Tool with |
| improved workflow. Central to the new design is the | | | | Wide Appeal |
| presentation of White Smoke's suggestions and | | | | "For corporate professionals seeking to project the |
| corrections. Replacing the pop-up menus of White | | | | right image with quality writing, through to bloggers, |
| Smoke 2008, the user now receives corrections and | | | | creative writers and tens of thousands of at-home |
| suggestions in-line with the text, just like when a text is | | | | users, White Smoke 2009 represents the next step in |
| edited and proofread manually."Our beta group is very | | | | the evolution of software to correct and enhance |
| pleased with this new development, which brings a | | | | English writing," states Amit Greener, VP Marketing at |
| more organic and 'real-life' feel to the writing and editing | | | | White Smoke. "With White Smoke 2009, anyone who |
| experience," notes Liran Brenner, VP R&D at White | | | | writes in English has a comprehensive and intuitive tool |
| Smoke. Other changes include the placement of the | | | | to aid written communication, a tool that easily |
| additional writing tools (English Lessons, Templates, and | | | | integrates with a user's existing applications and |
| the Dictionary) above the text area, and more intuitive | | | | preferred methods of working. |