A Few Good Resources…
I wanted to highlight a few good Web resources that I’ve been reading lately: Asia Business Intelligence This is a weblog maintained by Rich Kuslan. Rich has worked and traveled …
John Yunker
Translating America
Former advertising executive Charlotte Beers, now undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, is launching a $10 million ad campaign that promotes America to the Arab world. Ads …
A Web Without Web Pages?
According to Gartner, more Europeans use short messaging service (SMS) than email. Currently, 41 percent of European adults use SMS, compared to 30 percent that use the Internet/email. Increasingly, people …
A Special Font for a Special Language
Displaying mathematical and scientific symbols on Web pages – and elsewhere – has always been a challenge due to lack of font support. That’s about to change. The folks at …
Taking XML Global
XML, by default, requires Unicode. Which is a very good thing. But other than that, XML is only as global as we make it. Enter the Free Standard Group. They’re …
Reach Out and Translate Someone
In Japanese, “docomo” means “anywhere,” but now it might just mean “any word” as well. NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan’s top mobile carrier, said on Friday it plans to begin sales …
Big Mac; Little Mac
Well, it appears that McDonald’s has fallen on hard times. According to the New York Times, it is “pulling out of three countries and closing restaurants in about 10 other …
Amazon Loves Japan
Want to know a big reason why Amazon is doing well these days? According to this article: Sales rose 33 percent to $851 million, helped by growth of some 90 …
Adiós Inglés
According to Global Reach’s latest statistics on the use of language online, only 36.5 percent of the global online population are native English speakers.
Translation Portals and the Little Guy
A few months back I wrote an article for Multilingual Computing about large translation vendors launching translation portals. I profiled Berlitz and Bowne, and right about the time the article …
¿Habla Spanglish?
Want to irritate your Spanish and English teachers at the same time? Try a little Spanglish. Here’s a recent Associated Press article… ”Language is not controlled by a small group …
Brand Name Blunders
In a global marketplace, the odds of a new brand name offending somebody somewhere multiply significantly. Do your homework before taking a brand name into new markets. And read Steve …
And Europe’s Getting Bigger…
In a draft accord released early on Friday, the EU endorsed a recommendation by its executive arm, the Euroepan Commission, that the 10 candidate countries “fulfill the political criteria and …
BellSouth Targets Hispanic Consumers Online
“With more than 42.5 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States, representing nearly 15 percent of the entire population, it’s important for us to provide this valuable audience …