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Live: Google faces off with analysts
News Co-founder Sergey Brin tells analysts how a censored site helps China, why the feds are wrong and what's up with Google's revenue.
Tags: Search, Financial, Analyst reports
Google: The search is never over
Insight There is still much to improve in search, notes Google CIO Douglas Merrill, who says the company's role is not to censor information but to be "a picture of the Internet".
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Security applications/tools
Found in translation: Microsoft tool talks pretty
News New Microsoft program smoothes transition from Chinese to English.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish
News Google adds nine new languages to its translation service--which can translate text, comments, live chat, or entire Web pages--bringing the total to 51.
Tags: Business applications, machine translation, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Gmail
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
News Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Microsoft Corp., machine translation, Intranet, TechFest, product development, researcher, Microsoft Surface, technique
Google dominates in machine translation tests
News The search giant beats out IBM and academia in tests translating articles written in Arabic and Chinese to English.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Search, Web services
New tech speaks many languages at once
News In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
Wikipedia founder criticizes Thai Web censorship
News Jimmy Wales said that Internet censorship is one of Thailand's biggest problems and the system needs to be reexamined in the best interests of the country.
The human factor in Google translations
News The tech giant is readying a service to help people get documents translated. Might the service also help train Google's machine translation tech?
Tags: E-commerce, Web 2.0, Web sites, Search, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Database, Translation, payment, Eric Schmidt
Microsoft Research to open lab in Bangalore
News Move creates chance to explore developing multilingual and cheap PCs. But watch out for those power outages.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Tech's part in preventing attacks
News Terrorism is difficult to avert, but search, language and visual analytical tools could help stem it.
Tags: Search
Sun: Speeding Java for cell phones
News The computing giant says new software technology makes Java run at least five times faster on gadgets such as cell phones.
Java in phones picking up steam in Asia
News Sun Microsystems' telecommunications partners in Asia will announce deeper use of Sun's Java software in mobile phones and back-end networks next week at the first JavaOne conference in Japan, a Sun executive said.
IBM backs Sun's Solaris, renews Java pact
News Big Blue will create versions of its server software for Sun's operating system and will support Java for an additional 10 years.
Tags: x86-standard servers, Programming languages, Java, Databases
Google debuts in Indian languages
News Web search giant Google has launched a sister site in India that is available in four major Indian languages as well as in English.
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