Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
Microsoft has played a major role helping to establish Unicode as a global standard. Microsoft first migrated to Unicode for its Windows 2000 operating system. In doing so, it cleared …
In our 2006 Web Globalization Report Card, the top two global Web sites overall were Google and Wikipedia. Both organizations support more than 100 languages and a fast-loading, flexible global …
Statistical machine translation is an innovative way of automatically translating text from one language into another. It’s being used by Google, it’s being used in Iraq, and it’s being commercialized …
In September, news leaked out that eBay was rethinking its China strategy. Today this strategy becomes a bit more clear. The Wall Street Journal reports that eBay is effectively pulling …
Guest Article: By John Greenwood InterPro Translation Solutions There are choices you must consider when translating for some countries with multiple languages and into some languages that are used in …
Okay, so spammers has moved beyond pushing Viagra and inkjet cartridges to pushing translation services? I’ve received about a dozen such emails over the past six weeks, mostly from China. …
According to Associated Press, ICANN is inching closer to offering complete native-language domain names. Now what does this mean? There are two ways to offer an “internationalized” domain name. The …
This is completely off topic but I was on Yahoo! today and glanced at the main advertisement they run on the home page and “Intel Inside” popped into my head. …
Back before the Internet, I worked in marketing for a publishing house and we were coming out with a dictionary of Hispanic culture in the US. During the marketing meeting, the issue of the title came up: Hispanic vs. Latino? We must have wasted a good hour on the issue without any firm conclusion. Boy would Google have come in handy then.
I think we settled on Hispanic but nobody was really sure what the right answer was.
Baidu— the Chinese search engine that bears a striking resemblance to Google — is planning to enter the Japanese search market. Says this Reuters article Baidu “said its decision, which …
Chief Executive Magazine recently featured a brief Q&A with Jim Donald, CEO of Starbucks. He shed some light on the company’s global strategy. in short, Starbucks is trying to change …
That’s what MacDailyNews is saying, citing sources. If so, that will bring the total number of iTunes stores to 22. iTunes Australia launched in October of this year.