In early September, we issued a call for participation to invite thousands of LSPs to participate in a new report that would profile some of the more creative and innovative suppliers. Typically, when we announce a new survey on anything from an acquisition to quarterly business confidence, we see hundreds of responses within a […]

More than three hundred industry insiders gathered in Madison, Wisconsin last week for Localization World. It was a somnambulistic event, numbed by economic uncertainty and a looming slowdown in the global economy. One topic threatened to wake the sleepers — the recent roadmap announcement of the GlobalSight Open Source Initiative. Welocalize purchased the system […]

In the past few weeks, interpreters have been in the headlines nearly every day, representing a few steps forward — and backward — for the overall profession. Here are some of the latest trends in the spoken language space:

When we last drilled down into the translation management system (TMS) segment in early 2007, we found a near dead heat in features and functionality among two commercial contenders, Idiom and SDL. A year and a half later, the race has grown more interesting. SDL now offers Idiom as one of its brands. Some players […]