PC World writes that Google is testing new home page designs for Taiwan and Hong. This comes on the heals of Google’s new Korean home page. The company is focusing on those markets where it currently does not lead. It …
What separates good global Web sites from great global Web sites? Is it just the number of languages a Web site supports? Certainly languages are essential. Although every Web site is global by nature, few Web sites support enough languages …
Here are some thoughts from the past two days of the Idiom User Summit, in no particular order: – There was a lot of buzz around machine translation (MT). Both Systran and Language Weaver are here and there were (at …
2006 is a few days away and I can’t resist looking into my crystal ball to see what the year holds for all of us in the Web globalization industry. But before reading my take on the year ahead, let’s …
The Apple iTunes Australia store is now live. That brings Apple to a total of 21 iTunes stores. Anyone care to guess how long before a New Zealand iTunes store launches?
I just upgraded from iTunes 4 to iTunes 5 and, wouldn’t you know it, Apple changed the global navigation system. Instead of placing the link to the “global gaeway” in the upper left corner of the music store, the link …
Apple’s globalization of iTunes appears to be moving right along. According to the press release: “iTunes Music Stores were launched in the UK, France and Germany in June 2004, and now operate in 17 European countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, …
According to Engadget, the iTunes Music Store will indeed open in 2005 in Japan. That would make it a total of 20 iTunes country stores, with still plenty of room left to grow.
While I’ve been waiting for the iTunes Australia site to launch (it was held up recently) I realize that I missed the launch of Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. There are now a total of 19 iTunes country Web sites: …
The much-anticipated launch of iTunes Australia is on hold due to, who else, a record company. Or, more specifically, a record company’s lawyers. According to the Courier-Mail: A source said yesterday Apple had planned to launch an Australian version of …