Yesterday they rolled up the red carpet and carted away the security stations at the XVIII World Congress of the International Federation of Translators (FIT) in Shanghai, China. The first-ever-in Asia FIT conference drew over 1,500 delegates from 70 countries. Most were practicing translators and interpreters, but there was also a large smattering of academics […]

This week, there were rumblings about the forthcoming beta release of Google’s new translation management system (TMS), called Translation Center. If you’re familiar with Google Translate, you might be thinking, “Big deal, this is just a low-tech, human version of what they’re already doing.” If so, you would be wrong: This is big news for […]

This week’s earnings announcements by Lionbridge and SDL were not exactly earth-shaking news items on Wall Street, but the language industry is our beat. So, these updates typically merit some attention from us – we recently provided some advance analysis in the lead up to this latest round of results.
The SDL announcement, in the form […]