Bowne Global Solutions and Salesforce.com
Bowne Global Solutions, one of the “big 3” in the content globalization industry, uses Salesforce.com to manage its global sales team. I have found over the past two years that …
John Yunker
A URL By Any Other Language
Winston Chai at CNET explains the current state of internationalized domain names (IDNs) and why China may play a forceful role in pushing companies like Microsoft to begin supporting them. …
MTV Goes Bicultural
Corante’s New York Blog reports that MTV is launching three Asian pop music channels targeting Indian, Korean and Chinese viewers in the United States.
While Microsoft Fiddles (cont.)
Red Hat Linux is now avaailable in Bangla (also known as Bengali). Bangla is the official language of Bangladesh, a country with more than 140 million people. Why Bangla you …
Lionbridge Nabs SDL Sales Exec
Globalization services vendor Lionbridge just recruited sales exec Kathleen Bostick from archrival SDL. This is a blow to SDL’s North American sales efforts and a big win for Lionbridge. Kathleen …
Google Taking Adsense Global
Google just added five more languages to its Adsense program. That brings the total number of languages supported to 18. Adsense allows content publishers to earn additional revenues by inserting …
Trados Webinar on December 14th
Mark your calendars for another Trados webinar at December 14th. The focus of this call is the global branding of the Veritas Web site: Help! Our Company Has Websites in …
Los Increibles
Cool News reports on some fairly sophisticated movie localization at Disney. The studio recently dubbed its hit movie The Incredibles for Argentina using well-known local personalities. This extra Argentine effort …
New Multingual CMS Software
Content management sofware (CMS) provider Ektron has beefed up its support for content localization and multilingual content management. This is becoming a recurring theme among CMS vendors and I’m glad …
When Is iTunes Not iTunes?
When a British company owns the rights to http://itunes.co.uk/ and won’t sell it to Apple. Apple wants that domain name real badly and is using all legal means it its …
International Copyright Issues
Corante features a good interview on copyright issues; it touches on international harmonization.
China Blocks Nike’s Shot
First, Nike caused a stir at bus shelters in Singapore. Then it moved onto Chinese airwaves; this time, the authorities were not so amused. According to this AP article, the …
OpenOffice Swahili Launches While Microsoft Fiddles
While Microsoft focuses on its “strategic markets” the rest of the world is making do with open source software. And they’re doing quite well, thank you very much. There is …
Lenovo’s Global Aspirations
The news that Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo is in talks to purchase IBMs computer business is of great concern to Dell and other computer manufacturers, but it is also a …
Global Gateway Lessons From Japan
The global gateway is a term that refers to the technologies and devices used by a Web site to direct users to language-specific (or country specific) content. Most companies underestimate …
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