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.

Two years ago, the computer-aided translation (CAT) software industry resonated with major market consolidation, a declaration of independence, and open-source translation technology.  Since then, buyers on both the corporate and language service providers have watched a succession of translation memory (TM) and management systems (TMS) vie for traction in the marketplace. A new entrant joined the fray today [...]

Last week, individuals from all major sectors of the interpreting field — community, conference, legal, medical, military, and sign language interpreting — gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss common ground as well as differences. Organized by InterpretAmerica, the event also featured the presentation of a first-ever, comprehensive study of the North American interpreting marketplace, authored [...]