Translating America
Former advertising executive Charlotte Beers, now undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, is launching a $10 million …
Month: November 2002
A Web Without Web Pages?
According to Gartner, more Europeans use short messaging service (SMS) than email. Currently, 41 percent of European adults use SMS, …
A Special Font for a Special Language
Displaying mathematical and scientific symbols on Web pages – and elsewhere – has always been a challenge due to lack …
Taking XML Global
XML, by default, requires Unicode. Which is a very good thing. But other than that, XML is only as global …
Reach Out and Translate Someone
In Japanese, “docomo” means “anywhere,” but now it might just mean “any word” as well. NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan’s top …
Big Mac; Little Mac
Well, it appears that McDonald’s has fallen on hard times. According to the New York Times, it is “pulling out …
Amazon Loves Japan
Want to know a big reason why Amazon is doing well these days? According to this article: Sales rose 33 …
Adiós Inglés
According to Global Reach’s latest statistics on the use of language online, only 36.5 percent of the global online population …