Xbox Globalization
Here is an interesting Q&A with Peter Moore, global marketing chief of Microsoft’s Xbox. They have offered a subscription-based, online Xbox service for a couple years now and we find …
John Yunker
All Lucky Numbers Are Local
Every culture has lucky and unlucky numbers. In the US, you’ll be hard-pressed to find the 13th floor in New York City. According to CNN, someone in China paid $215,000 …
Welsh Translation On The Fly
The BBC has launched a new feature for Welsh speakers who aren’t too fluent in English. The Web application is called Vocab. Here’s an article excerpt: Vocab lets users hold …
SDL’s China Push
SDL announced that it has released a Chinese version of its translation memory tool SDLX. The company claims that this is the “first time a major translation technology player has …
Apple iTunes Globalization, Continued
About a month ago I wrote about how iTunes had currently been localized for three markets. My how time flies. The last I checked the iTunes Music Store now supports …
I’ve Never Seen This Global Gateway Before…
Martin Duerst pointed out a global gateway that has to be a first of its kind, shown below: What isn’t obvious in the photo is that these flags are actually …
Business Beyond Time Zones
Fast Company features a short article on the challenges of managing global teams. This is a real challenge that global Web teams face. Conference calls must be shuffled constantly to …
Language Weaver Scores More CIA Cash
Language Weaver, a San Diego-based developer of machine translation software, scored additional funding from In-Q-Tel, the VC arm of the CIA (yes, even the CIA likes to gamble). It appears …
Internet Users by Country, According to Nielsen
Nielsen/Netratings released its latest count of Internet users by country. Keep in mind that some of the most booming markets are left off this chart, such as China, India and …
Moravia Expanding US Sales Team
Globalization services firm Moravia is hiring bizdev people throughout the US. Check out the latest job listings here. Is your translation or globalization services firm hiring? Let me know and …
Translating .com: It’s Not So Easy
John Klensin is one the original architects of the Internet. He first tackled the challenges of mulitilingual (internationalized) domain names many years ago. I interviewed him for an article in …
SDL Helps Philips Go Global Gracefully
SDL announced that it helped Philips simultaneously launch new product marketing communications materials (Web site, collateral, etc) in 29 languages using SDL software and services. I’ve only just skimmed the …
Taking Video Games Global
I recently interviewed Heather Chandler, author of The Game Localization Handbook. Game localization is much more than a niche industry these days. Today, video games may be console-based, Internet-based, and …
Voters Lost in Translation
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the Spanish translation of an informational “voter guide” is so poor that the election board had to trash what remaining flyers it had in …
eBay And Amazon Have The World To Thank for Their Success
eBay and Amazon both reported solid Q3 numbers. But if you dig a bit you’ll find that the growth engine behind both of these companies is non-US sales. eBay eBay …