2009 was filled with charitable acts by language service providers (LSPs), globalization software vendors (GSVs), and others in the language industry. While not all companies feel comfortable broadcasting their good deeds, the receiving organizations actually encourage them to trumpet their donations — it increases awareness of the services offered by the recipients, thus driving more [...]

Each year, besides predicting what will happen in the coming 12 months, we review what we thought would happen in the prior year. How many of our predictions from December 2008 came true? Let’s take a look.

Finding that many of the visitors to Barnum’s American Museum in New York City would stay longer than they were wanted and thus keep new customers from entering (and paying), P.T. Barnum famously posted signs “This way to the egress.” His less sophisticated visitors would go in search of the exotic creature, only to find [...]

Calling to mind the man versus machine theme of The Terminator films, President Obama’s call for increased investment in machine translation has created the latest flurry in this rapidly evolving market sector.