Microsoft announced yesterday at MIX09 their own translation widget, Microsoft Translator.  Both a widget you can put on pages and an API to integrate translation into applications (and more) are available.  Currently both are being tested on an invite only basis, but you may be able to register for an invite code to be sent [...]

Last week the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a visit to her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.  In an effort to inject a bit of humor and improve relations between the US and Russia, somebody came up with a great idea to present a symbolic button – signifying the new era in US / [...]

Google Translate has added Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Galician, Estonian, Albanian, and Maltese to its repertoire.  This means that you can now find out what The Maltese Falcon is in…Hungarian ( máltai sólyom).  The total number of languages now available is 41, which, according to Google, covers “98% of Internet users” and makes 1,640 possible pairs [...]

Google has unveiled yet another tool to help people looking for documents in foreign languages.  For companies that use the enterprise-level Google Search Appliance.  Now, users can find documents in other languages and have them run through Google’s Translate technology.
This now makes it possible to search all of the documents your company has put into [...]

In the past weeks I’ve seen a few translation goofs get a fair bit of press around the world and cause more than a little laughter.  While these aren’t on B2B websites, they’re still good reminders of the need to be involved in every step of the translation process and use knowledgeable translators working in [...]