After nearly three months and millions of gallons of oil, it looks like the leak in the Gulf of Mexico may finally stop gushing. While BP’s blunders have caused untold damage to the environment, its failure to provide language services continues to put human life at risk.

Just as Steve Jobs begins to recover from “Antennagate,” Apple fans in the language services industry have yet another reason to lust after the company’s latest must-have gadget. ZVRS, a company that specializes in video relay services (VRS) for the deaf and hard of hearing, announced that it will soon launch a mobile video relay [...]

SDL announced today that it was buying machine translation (MT) supplier Language Weaver for US$42.5 million. The MT supplier will become SDL Language Weaver as the entire management and technical team joins SDL as a business unit reporting directly to CEO Mark Lancaster.

On March 11, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) to “double our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support two million jobs in America.” This week, the White House announced that Obama would name 18 American executives to the Export Council, an advisory group that he created [...]