A New Way to Measure Return on Translation
The February issue of Global by Design is now out and the title story looks at all the ways companies measure the return on investment of their translations, or “ROT.” …
John Yunker
American Airlines Upgrades US Spanish Web Site
By now, most of the major US airlines offer Spanish-languange content on their Web sites But only a few offer fully localized flight reservation systems, which is where the money …
Tridion Adds New Client: Sodexho
Global content management software vendor Tridion announced a large client win today: Sodexho. According to the press release, “Sodexho Alliance, the leading global provider of Food and Facilities Management services, …
Staples: Asi de Fácil
I was at Staples in San Diego yesterday and found that the company has translated its “That was easy” button into Spanish. I’m not sure if this is a national …
Idiom Announces New Account Wins
Idiom, a maker of globalization content management software, issued a bullish press release today stating that the company tripled the number of enterprise clients from 2005 to 2006. New clients …
An Interview with Language Weaver CEO Bryce Benjamin
Last week, I posted the article that I wrote about Language Weaver and their statistical machine translation software. While I was at the Language Weaver offices, I also had time …
So Many Webinars, So Little Time
It’s Webinar season again and my inbox is full. Here are three that look promising: Affordable XML Content Management: SaaS Success Stories Presented by DocZone Tuesday, January 16th registration An …
Most Popular Posts of 2006 (Belated Edition)
Okay, so I finally got around to reviewing 2006 stats for Global by Design. My goal is to install a real-time “most popular” sidebar; until then, here are the most …
Web Globalization Reaches the Top: Cisco’s CGO
As early as 2000, people like me have been saying that it would be just a matter of time before corporations added a Chief Globalization Officer to their ranks. It …
Borders Rethinking Amazon
According to Internet Retailer, Borders is reviewing its relationship with Amazon, which operates Borders.com, Waldenbooks. Borders.co.uk, and Booksetc.co.uk. When Borders announced an expansion into Ireland in November, I wrote that …
.ro + .bg = .eu
It’s official. The European Union has added two more countries to its steadily expanding universe: Romania and Bulgaria. Here’s the AP article.
Microsoft Vista Upgrades to Unicode 5.0
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 …
Wikipedia vs. Google
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 Gets Real: A Profile of Language Weaver
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 …
eBay China: Round Two
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 …