Josef Dunne and Mayel de Borniol envision a world where everyone can communicate effortlessly--while speaking their own native language. (Yep, like in Star Trek.) Their project, Babelverse, is launching at LeWeb this week.READ»
A new "self-serve" site from Smartling, a New York City tech startup, helps businesses convert their digital content into any languages they want. CEO Jack Welde believes soon, having a site just in English will be like having no web presence at all...
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Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his seminal polyglot work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is any indication.READ»
"Never work before breakfast," the saying goes. "If you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first." And while you do that, read iFive for the early news:READ»
In the future we will be Google, and Google will be us--the online giant will make us better humans. That's according to soon-to-be ex-CEO Eric Schmidt speaking today at DLD 11. Is he right?READ»
A new online project aims to bring American and Qatari teenagers together through crowdsourced translation exercises that could have ramifications for public diplomacy.READ»
Dulce et decorum est pro Google to add Latin to its inter-lingual translation tool. Is it a schoolkids delight, to get assistance with tricky homework? For sure. But it's also a hugely useful tool for academics and educators in science, philosophy and mathematics.READ»
Amazon announced yesterday the formation of AmazonCrossing, a new publishing imprint that will release foreign-language books translated into English, both in print and in its Kindle e-book format.READ»
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Google's making sure that Chrome's ascendancy is a global phenomenon, using a uniquely Google trick: It's building automatic machine translation into the browser itself. Is Google trying to turn the planet into a happy chattering ...READ»
With new translation and dictionary services--and an awkward custom keyboard--Google secures its position as the world's expert on "looking things up." Eat it, Webster.READ»
Facebook's growth continues relatively unfettered, but the site's management is keen to get all the hooks in place to keep it relevant when growth begins to slow. Now it has taken a number of steps to address the issue.Today Facebook ...READ»
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