ATIMAC held its first international conference in Monterrey, Mexico, hosting presenters and delegates from Costa Rica, France, Spain, and the United States. ATIMAC is the leading association of translators and interpreters in Nuevo Le�n, Mexico.

"TransPerfect Translations announced that Crimson Language Services has joined its growing family of companies. The merger creates a newly-formed Life Sciences Division that combines Crimson’s ISO 9001:2000/ISO 13485:2003 certified quality system and patent-pending risk management methodology with the production resources and localization talent of TransPerfect and its software localization unit, Translations.com. Crimson’s Financial Translations unit will be combined with TransPerfect’s existing financial practice group — providing enhanced resources for Sarbanes-Oxley compliant financial translations."

Rory Cowan and Mark Lancaster, CEOs of Lionbridge and SDL, respectively, debated their firms’ approaches to translation and localization in the Localization World (Seattle, USA) keynote panel moderated by Hans Fenstermacher, chairman of GALA.

The California Department of Managed Health Care will hold public hearings in November about draft regulations that would prevent children from interpreting at private hospitals, physicians’ offices or clinics.