AccuWeather.com Mobile Web Site Now Offers Forecasts in 33 Languages and Dialects
AccuWeather.com Mobile has become the first mobile web site to serve its worldwide audience with such a wide range of languages
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. August 5, 2009 – AccuWeather.com, the World’s Weather Authority®, today announced that it has launched new languages for its global mobile web site for a total of 33 translations, including three dialects of Chinese, three dialects of Spanish, two dialects of Portuguese, and two dialects of English.
The mobile web site provides a wide range of forecasts and indices for locations all over the world. Until now, it has provided them only in English.
"AccuWeather.com is truly a global forecasting company, providing weather information for virtually every place people live on Earth," Jim Candor Senior Vice President of New Media for AccuWeather.com said. "We are very excited to be the first weather provider to fully address our worldwide audience by providing languages to serve our audience nearly everywhere.”
The new range of languages on the mobile web site includes: – Arabic – Brazilian – Catalan – Chinese - Hong Kong – Chinese - Simplified – Chinese - Taiwan – Czech – Danish – Dutch – English – English UK – Finish – French – French Canadian – German – Greek – Hebrew – Hindi – Hungarian – Italian – Japanese – Korean – Norwegian – Polish – Portuguese – Portuguese – Romanian – Russian – Slovak – Spanish – Spanish - Argentinean – Spanish - Latin American – Swedish – Turkish
Free content available on the mobile web site includes exclusive AccuWeather.com 15-day forecasts, current conditions, hour-by-hour forecasts for up to 48 hours, satellite images, and the ability to store up to ten locations. The site supports both English and metric units.
To access the new languages available on the AccuWeather.com mobile web site, go to AccuWeather.com with your web enabled cell phone and click the change language” link at the top of the page.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, The World's Weather Authority®, presents accurate, localized, branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 110 million Americans each day via the Internet, mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, in print and on digital signage. The 113 meteorologists at AccuWeather deliver a portfolio of customized products and services to media, business, government, and institutions, and inform millions of visitors worldwide through the free AccuWeather.com website. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 20,000 third-party Internet sites, including CNN Interactive and ABC's owned and operated stations, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Visit www.AccuWeather.com for more information.
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