KarenSoft Presents Bilingual Surfing Tool, New Straits Times, Monday, November 16, 1998

KarenSoft Presents Bilingual Surfing Tool

New Straits Times, Monday, November 16, 1998


In this Internet era, a Web browser has become a common tool for accessing
global information.

The fact that Netscape and Microsoft are fighting fiercely for market dominance did not stop KarenSoft from developing its own Web browser.

Initially, the KarenSoft Web Browser (KWB) was developed as a simple shareware alternative to the Navigator and Internet Explorer. But with version two, the product has become a full-fledged application with a suite of seven Internet products.

These are the KWB, KarenSoft Mail, KarenSoft NewsReader, KarenSoft FTP, KarenSoft Multimedia Player, KarenSoft Finger and KarenSoft Plug and Trace.

Developed using Borland's Delphi 3, the product uses Microsoft's Active X technology. It is available in English and Bahasa Melayu versions, the latter being targeted primarily for Malaysian schoolchildren.

Featuring a small footprint (installation takes up less than six megabytes), the KWB is claimed to be fast in downloading files from the Internet.

Being a shareware, install base is hard to be determined but the company said the download page for the product has been visited by some 6,653 Net surfers from 60 countries around the world.