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Software Localization

Microsoft Lite is Late

December 23, 2004 by John Yunker

The Wall Street Journal documents Microsoft’s efforts to profit from developing markets while battling piracy. As I’ve mentioned before, Microsoft’s response over the past decade to a piracy-prone market has been to simply ignore that market. That is, until Linux …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

While Microsoft Fiddles (cont.)

December 14, 2004 by John Yunker

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 ask? Because a growing number of programmers in India and …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

OpenOffice Swahili Launches While Microsoft Fiddles

December 5, 2004 by John Yunker

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 now an OpenOffice software package available in Swahili. According to …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

iCanada

December 2, 2004 by John Yunker

The iTunes Canada store is now up and running. That makes it a total of 14 local iTunes stores now available. Here is a screen shot of the iTunes global gateway: Just four stores were live in September. Talk about …

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Categories Apple, Business globalization, Culture, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization

China Blogs

December 2, 2004 by John Yunker

A great article about the growth of blogging in China. Chinese also happens to be the fastest-growing language on the Internet. TweetShareShare

Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization

Finally, A Search Engine For Bilinguals

November 23, 2004 by John Yunker

Just when I thought I’d seen every type of search engine, along comes Babelplex. Babelplex takes a search string, translates it into another language and searches on both languages at once. Its name comes from the Web-based machine translation software, …

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Categories Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization

iTunes Japan in 2005

November 18, 2004 by John Yunker

According to News.com, Apple is launching iTunes for Japan in March 2005. As I reported a few weeks agoiTunes is already localized for 12 European markets. Japan, however, will not be quite so simple due to the inevitable character set …

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Categories Apple, Business globalization, Software Localization, Web Globalization

Apple iTunes Globalization, Continued

November 5, 2004 by John Yunker

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 12 markets outside the US. Not too shabby. TweetShareShare

Categories Business globalization, Software Localization, Web Globalization

Taking Video Games Global

October 29, 2004 by John Yunker

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 even phone-based. It’s a fascinating, emerging industry. In the interview, …

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Categories Software Localization, Translation, Video Game Globalization, Web Globalization

Hands-On Tips For Web Globalization

October 6, 2004 by John Yunker

The W3C Internationalization Working Group continues to add valuable resources for those who need hands-on information regarding Web globalization. Need to learn more about internationalized domain names, bidirectional text display, or multilingual style sheets? This is a good place to …

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Categories Software Localization, Web Globalization
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