NTT Docomo begins a second phase of trials for its two-way language translation mobile phone service

The translation service is part of the telecom carrier’s strategy to make its network more “intelligent” allowing it to effectively target firms that cater to foreign customers.Last month we reported that NTT Docomo was preparing to conduct a second …

Yahoo! Babel Fish is no more, but never fear, Bing Translator is here!

Microsoft Bing Translate service offers features, such as Text Translator, Webpage Translator and Website WidgetThere was a time, back before Google Translate, that Yahoo!’s Babel Fish translator could arguably have been called the best translati…

Leading linguist claims English will eventually perish as a world language, as did Sanskrit, Persian, Greek and Latin before it

Machine translation, allowing people to communicate globally via hand-held devices like iPads and smartphones, will soon replace English as the world’s most dominant language according to Nicolas Ostler, a leading linguist.All ‘lingua francas&r…

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…

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…

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 …

DARPA awards Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program $7.1 million contract to SRI-led team

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…