The research firm comScore Networks just released the results of a survey of more than 50,000 U.S. Hispanic Web surfers. This study found that U.S. Hispanic Internet users outnumber the total online populations of many Spanish-speaking nations. According to the…
Since its inception, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been criticized for favoring the U.S. over other countries. But with a new president in office, Australian Paul Twomey — the first non-U.S. citizen to be president —…
Multilingual Computing has published a very useful supplement on best practices in Web globalization. You can download a copy here. The following is an excerpt from an article that I contributed: There is no such thing as “rest of world.”…
Amy Campbell alerted me to a very interesting graphic on the Google Zeitgeist page. It tracks the languages used to access Google over the past two years: Google handles more than 200 million queries a day from around the world.…
The Economist featured a very good article on the growing popularity of English in the European Union. Although English is not the official language of the EU, it is fast becoming the working language of the EU. According to the…