An article in eWeek reported that "IBM is moving to capitalize on the huge growth in software development in a number of key emerging markets by helping ISVs and developers build solutions based on open standards that are compatible with IBM’s hardware and software platforms. Big Blue on Monday will announce a mentoring initiative to help startup companies in China, India, Russia and Brazil more easily develop solutions based on open standards technology by giving their developers instant access to IBM hardware and software, right from their desktops."

CNET reported that "Search giant Google’s ambitions to make the Web more international has gotten a slight boost from a U.S. government-run test in which its translation software beat out technology from IBM and academia. Google scored the highest in Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English translation tests conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Each test consisted of translating 100 articles from Agence France Presse and the Xinhua News Agency dated from Dec. 1, 2004, to Jan. 24, 2005. The results were posted earlier this month."