Red Hat Linux is now avaailable in Bangla (also known as Bengali). Bangla is the official language of Bangladesh, a country with more than 140 million people. Why Bangla you ask? Because a growing number of programmers in India and…
Globalization services vendor Lionbridge just recruited sales exec Kathleen Bostick from archrival SDL. This is a blow to SDL’s North American sales efforts and a big win for Lionbridge. Kathleen played a key role in SDL gaining strategic accounts in…
Google just added five more languages to its Adsense program. That brings the total number of languages supported to 18. Adsense allows content publishers to earn additional revenues by inserting context-sensitive Adwords into their Web pages. While I can’t help…
Mark your calendars for another Trados webinar at December 14th. The focus of this call is the global branding of the Veritas Web site: Help! Our Company Has Websites in 29 Different Countries! Building a Consistent Multinational Brand on the…
Cool News reports on some fairly sophisticated movie localization at Disney. The studio recently dubbed its hit movie The Incredibles for Argentina using well-known local personalities. This extra Argentine effort was a first for Disney, which “began dubbing specific versions…
Content management sofware (CMS) provider Ektron has beefed up its support for content localization and multilingual content management. This is becoming a recurring theme among CMS vendors and I’m glad to see it. Also nice to see is Ektron’s support…
When a British company owns the rights to and won’t sell it to Apple. Apple wants that domain name real badly and is using all legal means it its disposal. Unforunately, according to this article, Apple was simply too…
Corante features a good interview on copyright issues; it touches on international harmonization.
First, Nike caused a stir at bus shelters in Singapore. Then it moved onto Chinese airwaves; this time, the authorities were not so amused. According to this AP article, the Chinese government has banned a Nike TV ad in which…
While Microsoft focuses on its “strategic markets” the rest of the world is making do with open source software. And they’re doing quite well, thank you very much. There is now an OpenOffice software package available in Swahili. According to…
The news that Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo is in talks to purchase IBMs computer business is of great concern to Dell and other computer manufacturers, but it is also a lesson to all multinationals about globalization. Globalization cuts both ways.…
The global gateway is a term that refers to the technologies and devices used by a Web site to direct users to language-specific (or country specific) content. Most companies underestimate the importance of the global gateway, and I’m not just…
Localization services and software firm SDL announced an expanded contract with Computer Associates. SDL has been on a roll in 2004. Trados and Lionbridge should be concerned.
The iTunes Canada store is now up and running. That makes it a total of 14 local iTunes stores now available. Here is a screen shot of the iTunes global gateway: Just four stores were live in September. Talk about…
If you haven’t seen it yet, Corante’s new Outsourcing blog is worth a read. It features a solid group of expert contributors.