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 the way for faster development of global software. It also …
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 design template.Which is why I was interested to read that …
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 by a company called Language Weaver. I profiled this company …
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 the plug on its current China site and developing a …
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 multiple countries. English is English, Spanish is Spanish, Portuguese is …
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. Here’s a screen grab of one of such message, promoting …
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 easy way, which is now available commercially, is to offer …
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. No big deal. Until I looked again and I realized …
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 followed a six-month study into Japanese-language search technology, was based …
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 as little as possible in each new market they enter. …
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.