Windows 7 Internationalization
Microsoft blog entry is a nice overview of the upcoming global features of Windows 7.
I am one of the many people looking forward with...
Bowlingual 2.0
Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy has announced a new and improved version of the IgNobel-Prize-winning Bowlingual “translator” of dog-to-human communication. The device was displayed at...
Moving pictures: new tool claims to help build correct picto-translations
Edongba facilitates modern hieroglyph use.
Zmnsoft has released a Windows application allowing users to create documents and messages using Dongba hieroglyphs, the only hieroglyphic writing...
Clever toolbar for translators
The folks at Qabiria have put together a handy Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbar for translators.
Of course, being supplied by a consulting/translation house, the...
Nifty typing aid for Latin script characters
There is a free online editor for typing ‘special’ characters in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, IPA (English), Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,...
Obama translated into Farsi and Arabic
Perhaps it was in response to claimed mistranslations of previous statements. Whatever the reason, the Obama administration has posted a translation of his opening...
Google Translator Toolkit: Share and Share Alike?
By now, you have probably seen all sorts of chatter on Google’s new Translator Toolkit. Just as with anything Google does, it seems clean...
Now Oracle has a new Sun
Update: Oracle buys Sun. Oracle is positive about the acquisition, which, I suppose, makes sense. Nobody would shell out $7.4 billion for something that...
Spring drama with Sun and the big Blue yonder
There has been much speculation on the talks that IBM and Sun Microsystems aren’t officially having, ever since word leaked out that they weren’t...