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Month: July 2010

Amazon’s Kindle goes multilingual

July 29, 2010 by John Yunker

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. Of course, going truly mass market means going multilingual. Last …

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Categories Mobile, Russia, Software Localization

Embedded text is untranslated text, courtesy of Google

July 19, 2010 by John Yunker

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 advantage of this translation engine to provide web users with …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation

Another country code bites the dust. Say goodbye to .AN

July 14, 2010 by John Yunker

.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 a few short months. Says this article: On the same …

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Categories Country Codes

Congrats, Spain

July 11, 2010 by John Yunker

Now I can get back to my regularly scheduled life.

Categories Country Codes

Translation memory goes open source: An interview with Smith Yewell of Welocalize

July 8, 2010 by John Yunker

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 Trados software. When a company hires a translation agency and …

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Categories Machine Translation, Software Localization, Translation, Vendors

Apple iPhone 4 improves international support

March 31, 2013July 2, 2010 by John Yunker

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 iPhone 4 update, Apple continues to push ahead on the …

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Categories Apple, Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), iPhone

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