Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Google Translation Center Launch Delayed In somewhat of a botched launch which was observed by some bloggers, Google signaled its intention of opening a Google Translation Center in which users can collaborate with professional translators in order to obtain professional translations. Read more about this service on http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-04-n48.html. The service is not operational yet, but if you go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=gtrans you will be asked to log in to your Google account to access the service. However, once you log in you receive an error message. Stay tuned for more information and analysis on this move as the events unfold. 9:06:28 PM    comment []

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Irish Language Making a Comeback In 2006, the Irish government released a plan to encourage the use of Irish so that "in public discourse and in public services the use of Irish or English will be, as far as practical, a choice for the citizen to make and that over time more and more people throughout the State will choose to do their business in Irish." Additionally, the European Union (EU) made Irish one of its official languages in 2007 (see http://ec.europa.eu/news/culture/061227_1_en.htm). To find out more about Irish as an everyday language, visit http://www.k-international.com/irish_language. 5:31:22 PM    comment []

GTS Launches New Free Online Translation Tool GTS has launched a new online translation tool which you can see at http://www.gts-translation.com/freetranslation.asp. The new tool, which provides translation of both text and web pages, supports 13 languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Arabic, Greek and Polish. 5:20:42 PM    comment []