Global by Design

The Kindle 3 was announced last evening. The big news about the device is the price — starting at $139. You could argue that this is the first mass-market e-reader. Of course, going truly mass market means going multilingual. Last year, I asked where was Kindle’s support for non-Latin characters. I was happy to find [...]

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Google Translate is a great tool for translating content on the fly — and on the cheap. And as Google noted in its blog, Poland’s Ministry of Economy is taking advantage of this translation engine to provide web users with real-time translated content. The Google Translate engine is built right into the header. Here’s a [...]

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.AN is the ccTLD for the Netherlands Antilles which is about to fade into the sunset.  Its days as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands will end in a few short months. Says this article: On the same date, 10-10-10, Curaçao and the Dutch half of St Maarten will become independent countries within [...]

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Now I can get back to my regularly scheduled life.

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Translation memory helps companies re-use previously translated text, improving consistency and potentially saving money. But translation memory requires using translation memory software, which has for years largely meant using SDL Trados software. When a company hires a translation agency and requires that they use translation memory — not only must that agency have Trados software, [...]

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