9th Annual Operations Summit to be hosted by CSOFT at Beijing Headquarters

Globalization leader brings in industry executives and Asia business experts from Corel, Foton, Halliburton, Microsoft, FORTUNE and more.CSOFT International Ltd., a global communications company, announced today the commencement of its 9th Annual Opera…

Sign language finds its voice with the help of prototype translation device

MyVoice is a new technology that translates sign language into audible words and may finally eliminate the communication barrier between those who can hear and those who cannot.Last month we reported on a three Cornell University engineering students w…

Website owners and visitors can now edit Google language translations

Google continues breaking language barriers with improvements to its Translate service that lets website owners and visitors amend language translations.Google has just launched a new feature this week that lets website owners customize the language tr…

Website owners and visitors can now edit Google language translations

Google continues breaking language barriers with improvements to its Translate service that lets website owners and visitors amend language translations.Google has just launched a new feature this week that lets website owners customize the language tr…

Need to have more language interpreters on hospital staffs endorsed by Dr. Louis Hampers

The increased presence of trained language interpreters in hospital emergency rooms could go a long way toward reducing miscommunications and other critical errors—and doctors like Louis Hampers agree.In April we reported on a study suggesting that h…

Tchernichovsky Prize winners for language translation named

Tal Nitzan has been named as one of the winners of the coveted Israeli prize for exemplary language translation into Hebrew, specifically for her translation of poetry and prose written in a number of languages, and especially for her Spanish translati…

Language interpreters may help to reduce the length of time patients remain in the hospital

A new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester indicates that hospitalized patients with limited English-language skills spend fewer days in the hospital when assisted by a language interpreter at critical times.Researcher…

Welsh and Latin American Spanish languages now supported by Gmail

Google’s email client increases its multiple language support to cover one of the world’s most popular languages as well one of the world’s most unique. Earlier this month we reported that Google was rolling out a new language translation feature…

Translation failures hamper court cases in the United Kingdom

Up to 50 court cases a day were delayed or postponed because of failures by a language translation contractor to provide an adequate language interpreting service.Applied Language Solutions (ALS), the company that secured a multimillion pound contract …

SAIC awarded DIA contract to provide linguist and language translation services among others in support of the National Media Exploitation Center

The single-award contract has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options and a contract value of approximately $33 million if all options are exercised.Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been awarded a prime con…