National Anthem Controversy Continues in Afghanistan
Back in the March issue of MultiLingual Computing & Technology I noted the language issues that have been raised in the writing of a...
pi or omeros
Boing Boing reports (via the BBC) that a Japanese man managed to “remember” pi to 83,431 decimal places, doubling the world record. He took...
SDL acquires Trados
A big event in the (smallish) localization business, but one long expected by insiders who tracked SDL’s rise and rise. Users at every level...
L without H
Blast from the past: Jo Lernout, half the notorious Belgian double act from the 1990s, has published a “my story†autobiography. He is interviewed...
Unicode texting
If you want to send a non-Latin script text message to a mobile phone, do it via the web. The South African firm SMSWarehouse...
Morse vs SMS
The London Times reports on a messaging competition pitching a 93 year old telegraph typist using Morse code against a 13 year old using...
KOD linguistics
Deutsche Welle published a curious story the other day about a German supermarket millionaire called Johann Vielberth who is funding a project to develop...
Multilingual keyboard
An outfit called Kợnyin – yes that’s a diacritical under the ‘o’ , not a smudge – has just launched a range of...
The short version
The UK text processing company Corpora Software has struck again (see here for a previous posting on their products), this time with Summarize!, a...