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Why is it so difficult to teach language as culture?
In her much quoted article in Profession 2002, titled "Traffic in Meaning: Translation, Contagion, Infiltration," Mary Louise Pratt reflects on the difficulty of communication across cultures using the example of the clash in worldviews between the conquered Incas in Peru and the Spanish Crown at the end of the 18th...
Tags: American, American Media Inc., East, Ich, Translation
Research articles 2008-01-01
William Wong: Optimizing Business Communication
In 2002, William Wong co-founded Language Weaver, a leading developer of enterprise software for language translation. Wong talks about the many business to business translation services Language Weavers offers, and the benefits of breaking the business language barrier.
Tags: William Wong, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, technology, software, Language Weaver, communications, translation, Kontrib
Videos 2008-03-08
Tailoring Your Web Site to Foreign Markets
Localization is about creating Web site content specific to a language and marketplace, and is imperative if you want to market to non-English speakers. Localization is an expensive process. More than simply translating content, localization also takes cultural differences into account. You must make sure that you can achieve an...
Tags: Channel Management, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Language, Translation, Market, Web Site, Localization, Web, Internet, Marketing, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-10-17
Lost in Translation
Bakers and snack manufacturers still are digesting the news as trans fat-heavy oils/shortenings are getting lost in translation. Many producers, such as Kraft Foods, Pepperidge Farm and Frito-Lay, are already on the move, looking to reduce, if not eliminate, the blacklisted ingredient completely. Those manufacturers who don't respond to growing...
Tags: Manufacturer, Translation, Manufacturing
White papers
Siobhan Hanna: Targeting International Markets
Siobhan Hanna is representing Localization World, a conference focused on helping companies cross language and cultural barriers when doing business internationally. As domestic markets suffer in difficult economic times, Siobhan discusses the importance of targeting international market.
Tags: Market, Siobhan Hanna, Emerging Technologies, Localization, World, International Business, Translation
Videos 2008-11-19
Daniel Nackovski: Expanding Global Sales
Daniel Nackovski is the President of Across Systems, a translation software platform with more than 20% of the translation tools market in Europe. Daniel gives us some insight into the process of translation and localization and talks about the importance of global sales when domestic markets suffer.
Tags: Software, Daniel Nackovski, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Localization, Translation, Across Systems
Videos 2008-11-26
BMS to Lilly re ImClone: "Thanks for the Cash, Suckers!"
Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO James M. Cornelius wrote this note today after the announcement that Eli Lilly and ImClone had agreed on the former's $6.5 billion, $70-a-share acquisition of the latter. Let's go through it line by line to see if there's a subtext, shall we? After describing...
Tags: Eli Lilly & Co., Translation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Lilly, ImClone, Biotechnology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Finance, Business Operations, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-10-06
Court Suggests Abbott Lawyer Cheated on Hytrin Patent
A federal appeals court has strongly suggested that an "Abbott in-house attorney" is a cheat. In a ruling on whether Abbott Labs broke antitrust law in consipiring with generic makers to keep Hytrin, a hypertension and prostate enlargement drug, off the market, the judges described why they were sending the ...
Tags: Patent, Translation, Attorney, Hytrin, Sumika, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-01-26
Leo Burnett CEO Bernardin Oddly Silent on $15.5 Million Fraud Case
Leo Burnett CEO Tom Bernardin submitted to an interview with Ad Age, but the chat featured a glaring ommission. Can you guess what it was? That's right. There was no mention of the agency settling its billings fraud case with the US Army for $15.5 million (back story here and...
Tags: Agency, Translation, Corporate Governance, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-02-09

Additional Resources

Avid for Ovid: transmogrified by the classics. (Ted Hughes' translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses')
Hughes' translation of 24 passages of Ovid's 'Metamophoses' is the first translation of Ovid since that completed by John Dryden 300 years ago. Hughes seeks to provide a translation that is not literal, but conveys the author's 'sense.' Hughes' translation of 24 passages of Ovid's 'Metamophoses' is the first translation...
Tags: Avid Technology Inc.
Research articles 1997-05-10
SYSTRAN Awarded a First Place Ranking for Translation Quality at WMT Competition
SYSTRANâ??s ground breaking hybrid machine translation engine outperforms Google and others in English to French translation PARIS & SAN DIEGO -- SYSTRAN, ...
Tags: Systran Corp.
Research articles 2009-05-28
Google Docs adds translation app to arsenal
Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages. The new feature, found in a settings menu, can automatically detect in which language the original document...
Tags: Google Inc., translation, language, Google Gmail, Google Docs
News items 2009-08-28
Grass Valley. (to produce desktop video system with Data Translation) (Cutting Edge) (Brief Article)
Grass Valley is teaming with Marlboro, Mass.-based Data Translation to produce a desktop video system. The VideoDesktop system will employ technology developed by Data Translation for the company's Media 100 product. Grass Valley plans to begin shipp Grass Valley is teaming with Marlboro, Mass.-based Data Translation...
Tags: desktop, video
Research articles 1995-03-06
Dual supply level translation transceivers.(Integrated Circuits)
Texas Instruments has added four dual-supply level transceivers to its translation product line: the SN74LVC1T45, SN74LVC2T45, SN74AVC8T245 and the SN74AVC20T245. They allow flexible bi-directional level translation between 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V and Texas Instruments has added four dual-supply level transceivers to its translation product line:...
Tags: integrated circuit, Texas Instruments Inc., transceiver
Research articles 2004-01-01
ANSI Receives Grant for the Translation of U.S. & Chinese Standards
National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST and U.S. Dept. of Commerce has awarded a grant to ANSI to provide English translation of the titles and scopes of 1,000 Chinese GB standards as well as Chinese translation of the titles and scopes ofNational Institute of Standards and Technology NIST and...
Tags: NIST, standards
Research articles 2005-11-01
DVDINSIDER: Data Translation Unveils Broadway Pro 5.1
DVD News 04-11-2001 DVDINSIDER: Data Translation Unveils Broadway Pro 5.1 DVD NEWS-11 April 2001-DVDINSIDER: Data Translation Unveils Broadway Pro 5.1 C1999-2001 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.co DVD News ...
Tags: DVD, MPEG-2, video
Research articles 2001-04-11
SDL PLC acquires enterprise translation server & TranscendNT machine translation engine.
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 February 2001-SDL INTERNATIONAL: SDL PLC acquires enterprise translation server & TranscendNT machine translation engine C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15022001 SDL International, a leading provider of globalization solutions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the automated real time...
Tags: SDL International, SDL Plc., Transparent Language Inc.
Research articles 2001-02-15
SDL PLC acquires Enterprise Translation Server & TranscendRT' Machine Translation Engine.
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 February 2001-SDL INTERNATIONAL: SDL PLC acquires Enterprise Translation Server & TranscendRT' Machine Translation Engine C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15022001 SDL International, a leading provider of globalisation solutions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the automated real time...
Tags: SDL International, SDL Plc., Transparent Language Inc.
Research articles 2001-02-16
SDL Desktop Products helps to modernizethe translation classroom; New Academic Alliance Program provides standards-based, TMX Certified software for worldwide translation courses.
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 February 2004-SDL INTERNATIONAL: SDL Desktop Products helps to modernizethe translation classroom; New Academic Alliance Program provides standards-based, TMX Certified software for worldwide translation coursesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02202004 Maidenhead, U.K -- SDL Desktop Products, a division of SDL ...
Tags: Desktop Products Inc.
Research articles 2004-02-20
Systran and OracleMobile.com translate their way into the wireless world; Machine translation pioneer teams with Oraclesubsidiary to bring translation technology to mobile communication devices.
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 April 2000-ORACLE: Systran and OracleMobile.com translate their way into the wireless world; Machine translation pioneer teams with Oraclesubsidiary to bring translation technology to mobile communication devices C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032000 Paris -- SYSTRAN today announced...
Tags: Systran Corp.
Research articles 2000-04-11
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