What do you get when you bring together a country’s Commissioner of Official Languages, translation and technology providers, and expert speakers under the auspices of a language industry association? A stand-out language industry event, that’s what.

Microsoft, Oracle, and VMWare went to Argentina to tell some 170 delegates from ten countries which flavor of Spanish they prefer for their software in the first event organized by the Localization World producers south of the Equator. Although several badges were never picked up from the registration table by those participants forced to stay […]

When companies brief us, we always ask how business is going. These days, the table is turned, and companies are increasingly asking us, “How’s business in general for the industry?” In some recent conversations with LSPs, we have probed for feedback about the unrelenting flow of bad economic news and how — or if — […]

Our post on open-source translation management systems (TMS) generated reactions from suppliers to that sector. One comment from SDL requires a clarification of a statement that we made, so we figured that it was time to clear up some questions that have been popping up since SDL began briefing WorldServer customers on its plans for future […]