Google Reader: Blogs in Any Language

The Google Reader team have announce a feature whereby you can easily translate any subscribed blog into your language. MAKE has more information. So, now you...

And Now For Something Completely Different … Comic Books

Google have released their new Chrome browser. Nice and simple, ‘though I won’t be switching to it as my main browser for a while...

Across thinks large

Do you remember the vehicle ad campaign in the early sixties “Think Small”? It was a great campaign to catch the American market’s eye...

New Languages in Google Translate

I see Google Translate has now added 10 languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to...

Microsoft launches Language Portal

Microsoft’s newly launched Language Portal contains information for language professionals such as an IT terminology search tool and a localization download site. Thanks go to...

Der Mundo, New Easy to Use Multilingual Blogging Tool

As he mentioned at the SV Localization UnConference Brian McConnell of the Worldwide Lexicon (see previous Blogos posting), has announced Der Mundo, a new,...

Community Translation Ain't FREE Translation

There was a great session at the recent Localization UnConference on the subject of Community-based localization/translation. Janice Campbell, a Globalization Manager at Sun (Janice’s Blog...

More multilingual messaging

Another entry in the on-demand translation category: SpeakLike was introduced this week as “the first instant messaging service for accurate real-time translation chat across...

MADCAT

A new entry in translation technology research for military use: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BBN Technologies (http://www.bbn.com) of Cambridge,...