The U.S. Defense Advance Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) focuses on English and Iraqi Arabic. The National Institute of Standards and Testing is evaluating system capabilities for speech recognition,tria machine translation, noise robustness, user interface design, and performance for these handheld devices.

Sajan releases X-Content Integration, a universal content connector to assist large enterprises managing translation from multiple content stores.

We recently spent a week in Israel, keynoting the STC conference and meeting with Israeli companies operating in the global economy. Read about Israel and localization.

The 8 stages of the Localization Maturity Model, one of Common Sense Advisory’s most successful reports, illustrate a poster developed by Moravia’s Argentinean operation for its own staff. And Véronique Ozkaya has joined Moravia as head of global sales.