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OpenOffice Swahili Launches While Microsoft Fiddles

By On December 5, 2004 · Leave a Comment

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 the release:

Swahili is the most spoken of the Bantu languages and conservative estimates [...]

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iCanada

By On December 2, 2004 · 1 Comment

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 rapid globalization.A Japan iTunes store is in the works, but that country won’t be [...]

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China Blogs

By On December 2, 2004 · Leave a Comment

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

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Finally, A Search Engine For Bilinguals

By On November 23, 2004 · Leave a Comment

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, Babel Fish.

Click here to search on “Web globalization” in English [...]

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