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…

U.S. Supreme Court rules: Interpretation and Translation are not the same

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 …

911 call with no language interpreting leads to arrest and 75 days in jail for elderly assault victim

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…

Windows Phone Translator helps fill the smartphone language gap

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 …

Twitter translation center now open for six additional languages

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…

Foreign language versions of New York State school exams riddled with errors in translation

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…

Foreign language versions of New York State school exams riddled with errors in translation

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…

High-tech glove translates sign language into spoken letters

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…