Amazon’s Kindle goes multilingual
The Kindle 3 was announced last evening. The big news about the device is the price — starting at $139. You could argue that this is the first mass-market e-reader. …
Month: July 2010
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Google Translate is a great tool for translating content on the fly — and on the cheap. And as Google noted in its blog, Poland’s Ministry of Economy is taking …
Another country code bites the dust. Say goodbye to .AN
.AN is the ccTLD for the Netherlands Antilles which is about to fade into the sunset. Its days as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands will end in …
Congrats, Spain
Now I can get back to my regularly scheduled life.
Translation memory goes open source: An interview with Smith Yewell of Welocalize
Translation memory helps companies re-use previously translated text, improving consistency and potentially saving money. But translation memory requires using translation memory software, which has for years largely meant using SDL …
Apple iPhone 4 improves international support
The iPhone is a global success story. And one of the reasons for this success can be attributed to the device’s support for more than 30 languages. But with the …