"Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced new details of its ‘WorldServer LSP Advantage Program,‘ including the addition of nine independent language service providers (LSPs) that will play an important role in pioneering this first–of–its–kind partnership model. WorldServer LSP Advantage Beta Program members are: COMSYS; ISP (International Software Products); Local Concept, Inc.; Localize Technologies; LUZ, Inc.; OmniLingua; One Planet Corporation; VistaTEC and WH&P."

"Lucent Technologies announced that the award-winning VitalSuite Network Performance Management software has been enhanced with Japanese language support for Japanese users in order to support the current rapid IT expansion in the region. The language of IT and telecommunications technology has traditionally been English, but trends towards globalization and local language support have continued to gain momentum in the Asia Pacific region."

"The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-05) was part of an ongoing series of evaluations of human language translation technology. NIST conducts these evaluations in order to support machine translation (MT) research and help advance the state-of-the-art in machine translation technology. These evaluations provide an important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities."