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.

In January, speech technology provider Nuance Communications announced that it received a US$175 million investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus and that it would acquire patents from IBM, one of its major competitors in the speech recognition sector. Both the size of the investment and the technology transfer between rivals made these announcements stand […]

The global lack of qualified interpreters appears to grow with each passing day. A recent report from Voice of America discussed the unmet need for court interpreters in the United States and the difficulty in finding adequate resources for languages of limited demand, such as Burmese.  Stories like these appear on a near-daily basis: