High Court says interpretation and translation are not the same thing when it comes to paying fees associated with federal civil lawsuits.The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd. did not deserve to get $5,517.20 in compensation for …

A 911 operator is being investigated by police after an emergency call from an elderly man who’d been viciously beaten was poorly handled.Marian Andrzejewski, a 75-year-old resident of Ottawa, was savagely assaulted by two thugs after they burst throug…

Bing and Microsoft research level the playing field with the launch of Translator, a smartphone translation app for use on Windows Phone.So many mobile device translation apps, so little time. What is one to do? Well move over iPhone geeks and Android …

Social media leader is now six steps closer to reaching every person on the planet.Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to support right-to-left languages for the first time with the addition of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Now…

Sloppy translations lead state officials to invalidate nearly 30 questions from English language arts and foreign-language versions of the state math exam.A series of nearly 30 errors have been found on the 2012 New York State English language arts (EL…

Sloppy translations lead state officials to invalidate nearly 30 questions from English language arts and foreign-language versions of the state math exam.A series of nearly 30 errors have been found on the 2012 New York State English language arts (EL…

Cornell University engineering students devote their final project to the development of prototype glove Last March we reported on a breakthrough mobile software application that converts sign language into text, developed by researchers at Aberdeen Un…

SRI International has been awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract under DARPA’s BOLT program. BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language technologi"Machine translation technology h…

Japanese mobile operator will expand trial to cover 10 languages and 10,000 users NTT Docomo will conduct a second trial of an experimental cloud-based service for real-time interpretation between Japanese and other languages via mobile devices. The tr…

Despite being the fifth most spoken language globally, with some 280 million native speakers, Arabic translation lags well behind most of the lesser-spoken languages, including Russian, Greek, Polish and Czech.According to the UNESCO Index Translation,…