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Trusted Translations in NY
2007-09-03 11:37:00
Trusted Tran slations , Inc. has recently launched an operations centre in New York, a centre that will provide Spanish translation services to businesses, government entities and non-profit organizations in the New York City metro area. CEO Richard Estevez commented: "We are extremely excited by the opportunity to provide the highest quality Spanish translation services in the New York City market and to provide local companies with significant costs savings".

New translation tool from Verbatim Solutions
2007-08-17 07:49:00
Verbatim Solutions recently announced the launch of a free translation service tool that creates real time, instant translations between English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Arabic. This tool offers ?on the fly? translations from and into all the above mentioned languages. The service is free of charge and you can try it out here http://www.verbatimsolutions.com/freetran slation.php
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CLT at Columbia University launches website
2007-07-30 15:30:00
The Center for Literary Translation at Columbia Univers ity has recently launched its website http://www.centerforliterarytranslation.o rg/ The joint creation of PEN American Center, the online magazine Words Without Borders, the poetry journal Circumference and the Writing Division, the Center of Literary Translation promotes the study of translation and tries to increase the number and quality of the literary translations published in English by coordinating programs that enhance awareness of the art of translation, the work of translators, and literatures not written in English.
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Ideas Portal on SDL Website
2007-06-27 09:16:00
SDL has launched an online customer suggestions portal for the SDL Trados technology community ? http://ideas.sdltrados.com/ . This portal gives SDL customers the opportunity to make suggestions and interact with SDL product management, thus helping the company improve their Trados products.
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MemoQ 2.1
2007-06-08 09:53:00
Kilgray Translation Technologies has released version 2.1 of the Integrated Localization Environment MemoQ. MemoQ 2.1 ?s translation memory (TM)-driven segmentation enables the automatic adjustment of segment boundaries and it comes in handy for users who need to translate different versions of similar documents. For more info http://www.kilgray.com/kilgray/

New Translation Feature from Google
2007-05-25 15:12:00
This week Google Inc. enhanced its translation service with a new feature that allows users to enter search requests in their language and then click on a link to have the resulting pages translated. The advantage of this feature is that English terms can now be used to search websites written in other languages. This feature is currently available in English, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Arabic, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
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Multilizer 2007
2007-05-08 10:03:00
Multilizer 2007 is a new tool family for localisation of content and executables. Multilizer 2007 Enterprise can be automated to create new localisation projects; scan, build, import/export translations; share translation work; display projects; statistics and many more. http://www.multilizer.com

LingvoSoft Online
2007-04-27 09:09:00
LingvoSoft have recently launched LingvoSoft Online , an online service that offers normally commercial features for free. LingvoSoft Online provides several translation utilities, featuring a selection of tools that can be used to communicate over the web. It delivers award-winning dictionaries, based on its own translation vocabularies but also an online PhraseBook that is able to translate between 45 of the world's most popular languages. The service is available for over 40 languages and it provides the voicing of translations out loud using the latest text-to-speech technology as well as native-speaker voice narration of the PhraseBook entries. http://www.lingvosoftonline.com

Language Weaver Teams with Idiom Technologies
2007-04-13 08:55:00
Idiom® Technologies , Inc, the leading independent supplier of SaaS and on-premise server-based globalisation management systems, and Language Weaver announced that they have signed a strategic marketing and technology integration agreement. The two companies plan to offer an integrated machine assisted human translation solution that uses Language Weaver?s statistically-based machine translation in Idiom WorldServer? automated translation workflows. For more information http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/ google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view& newsId=20070412005452&newsLang=en
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New translation programme from Google
2007-03-29 12:41:00
Google is currently developing a translation programme which will translate a document into any of the world's main languages. Google admits that the programme may not be suited to accurate-critical document translations but it should be able to deliver a 'mostly correct translation'. So far, the Google statistical machine translation system is offering translations from Arabic, Chinese and Russian to English. The tool is free for the time being. http://www.google.com/language_tools/
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