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 …
Vendors
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 …
CA Goes Global With SDL
Localization services and software firm SDL announced an expanded contract with Computer Associates. SDL has been on a roll in 2004. Trados and Lionbridge should be concerned.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Briggs & Stratton Accelerates Translation
Just as “time to market” has accelerated across all industries, so too has “translation to market.” After all, you can’t promote a new product globally if the marketing collateral and …
Idiom Hiring: Plans to Double Sales in 2005
Globalization management software vendor Idiom has been on a hiring spree lately; they tell me that they plan to double revenues in ’05 and are hiring field sales and consultants …
Machine Translation Vendor Scores Funding
Language Weaver, a machine translation (MT) software developer, has announced a $4 million VC infusion. This is just another sign that MT is inching closer to real-world/commercial applications. Slowly but …
Bowne Offers Interpretation to NHS
The NHS is the UK’s national health organization and the largest health organization in Europe. It announced recently that it would be offering multilingual phone support through Bowne Global Solutions. …
Trados Adds Content Management Partner
Trados has been on a partnering spree lately, hooking up with a growing array of content management software (CMS) providers. Overall, this is a good strategy, as every CMS application …
Asian American Market 101
Kang & Lee, a multicultural marketing agency, offers a number of informational resources on its Web site, including an Asian Americans 101 primer. Here are some interesting stats: Between 1990 …
Oracle Selects Idiom (Again?)
The title of this latest Idiom press release makes it sound as if Idiom just won the Oracle account. However, if you read past the first paragraph you’ll find that …
GlobalSight Adds Content Management Partner
GlobalSight, a developer of globalization management software, announced today that it “has entered into agreement with enterprise content management software provider, Mediasurface, for integrating end-to-end Web content creation into GlobalSight’s …