Translation
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Turning smartphones into language translators
News More language translation tools becoming available in mobile app stores, enhancing mobility of business travelers in foreign countries, say handset makers.
Tags: Mobile applications, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Tool, Optical Character Recognition, software tool, food, marketing
Yahoo enters Arab market with Maktoob acquisition
News Internet giant unveils plans to buy largest Arabic Web portal, Maktoob.com, as part of company's bid to expand into lucrative Middle Eastern market.
Tags: Web sites, Acquisitions, Online Advertising, Emerging Market, Yahoo Search, U.A.E., Internet, merger, Internet company, Joel D. Pinaroc
Language translator offers telcos new opportunity?
News Pan-Asian consortium unveils real-time speech translation program with potential for use on mobile phones and portable devices.
Tags: Business applications, Language, Cell Phone, Singapore, Japan, consortium, Server, phone, network, telecommunications company
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
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News Gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Gadget, Google Inc., Language, automated translation, authentication system, Web Browser, Tool, product manager
Google Translate now helps with pronunciation
News It's one thing to translate a word, but it's another thing to know how to correctly pronounce a word written in an unfamiliar character set. Google Translate just added that feature.
Tags: Service level management, Google Inc., Language, English, Service level management
Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
News In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data mining & analysis, Database management, Page, Google Inc., Web Site, Web Browser, Hallmark, Webmaster
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Translations for Facebook Connect allows Web developers to tap technology that has been used to translate the social network itself into 65 languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Site, Web Site, single sign-on, authentication, Google OpenSocial, Lee, Web 2.0, board, Facebook
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
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News IT overhaul signals advent of cloud-based collaboration for one U.K. company.
Tags: Applications and tools, Business applications, Security applications/tools, Open Source, Google Inc., Rentokil Initial Plc., Taylor Woodrow Plc., Information Technology, Business applications, Video
Export project data for future effort estimation
Techguide Learn to tweak your estimation matrix even further by analyzing the project data from your Microsoft Project schedule.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Estimation Matrix, C, Andrew Makar, Microsoft Corp., Business Strategies & Functions, Deliverable, Tool, Gantt Chart
S'pore YOG to support multimedia services
News SingTel is official "multimedia services partner" for Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, but details are sketchy regarding which services will be activated.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Mobile platforms/communications, GPS, SingTel, Singapore, 3D, social networking, Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications
S'pore firm not gaga over Google Apps
News Google launches marketing campaign to drive adoption of office suite, but one Singapore company has concerns over security and lack of formatting capabilities.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., Cloud, DSC, Microsoft Corp., CEO, software, Cloud computing, Wong, e-mail
Social networks will need to do more for Asia
News Beyond just speaking an Asian language, social networking sites must also pay attention to unique usage patterns to encourage user adoption, says analyst.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, eMarketer, Asia, South Korea, Japan, social networking, Social Networking Site, Facebook, network
Google Toolbar for IE speaks your language
News Google's Internet Explorer to introduce revamped translation tools, giving users one-click powers of conversion over many languages.
Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Search, Google Inc., Web Browser, Tool, software company, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Toolbar
