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Month: December 2004

English Gains in Chile

December 30, 2004 by John Yunker

According to The Wall Street Journal: When Swedish air-traffic controllers speak to Italian pilots they speak English. When Dutch importers do business with Chinese manufacturers, they use English. Ditto for Russians trading with Indians and Taiwanese selling in Bangladesh. Now …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

US Population at 295 Million

December 30, 2004 by John Yunker

According to the US Census Bureau, the US will finish 2004 with a population of 295 million, up roughly 3 million over the year before. Thanks to international migration, the US population will continue to grow at the rate of …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Software in Emerging Markets

December 29, 2004 by John Yunker

Localization industry organization LISA has posted an interesting Q&A with Ori Redler, co-founder of software vendor RedleX, which has developed a word processing application for the Mac that supports such “minority” languages as Welsh, Farsi and Hebrew. Not only does …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

Amazon Adds China to Global Gateway

December 28, 2004 by John Yunker

Amazon recently added China to its global gateway. The link to takes you to Joyo.com, a company Amazon acquired over the summer. It will be interesting to see if Amazon attempts to “re-brand” Joyo as Amazon, or leave it as …

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Categories China, Web Globalization

McDonald’s China Web Site Hacked

December 27, 2004 by John Yunker

McDonald’s China Web site was hacked, apparently by a person (or people) protesting the company’s reference to Taiwan as a separate country. The Taiwan/China issue is bound to produce headaches for multinationals who want to offer local Web sites for …

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Categories Web Globalization

Global Seasons Greeting

December 24, 2013December 24, 2004 by John Yunker

Afrikaans > Een plesierige kersfees Arabic > I’D MIILAD SAID OUA SANA SAIDA Armenian > Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand Azeri > Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun Basque > Zorionak eta Urte Berri On! Bohemian> Vesele Vanoce Brazilian > Boas …

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Categories Translation, Web Globalization

Job Opening: Web Internationalization

December 24, 2004 by John Yunker

A very exciting (and very technical) position is opening up with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at Keio University in Japan. Your mission is to “advance Web internationalization, so that current Web technology stays, and new Web technology becomes, …

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Categories Web Globalization

Is Staples Global?

December 23, 2004 by John Yunker

It certainly thinks so. Here is a screen grab from their global gateway page: I think they’ve got a long ways to go yet. TweetShareShare

Categories Web Globalization

Microsoft Lite is Late

December 23, 2004 by John Yunker

The Wall Street Journal documents Microsoft’s efforts to profit from developing markets while battling piracy. As I’ve mentioned before, Microsoft’s response over the past decade to a piracy-prone market has been to simply ignore that market. That is, until Linux …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

Lionbridge on Hiring Spree

December 22, 2004 by John Yunker

Globalization services vendor Lionbridge is on a hiring spree. It posted more than 20 job positions in December, gearing up for a big 2005. TweetShareShare

Categories Vendors, Web Globalization
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