SuperPower Nation Day and the Future of Machine Translation

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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:08

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BBC's SuperPower season hosted an experiment last month where they had Google's translation software translate comments from the people who participated at the event in person or called on the phone.

As soon as the event started, many users expressed their approval of the kind of experience they had conversing with people who spoke a language different from their own. The languages that were available were English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Persian, Indonesian, and Spanish.

Planning Your Budget for Content Translation

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Friday, 19 March 2010 13:24

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I hear a lot of complaints from job providers as well as translators. People requesting for a translation complain about the prices for translation being too high while translators complain that the provider isn’t paying them well. There are many good translators that quote an unreasonably high price, and there are those who aren't as good, and try to win customers by charging dirt cheap rates. If you've been on the receiving end of this problem, you have probably wondered what should the right budget for your translations be and how you can decide whether the translator is not ripping you off?

Learn How a Blog Can Help Promote Your Product or Service

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Friday, 19 March 2010 12:48

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A website listing all your offerings is an essential element of online business. Your customers know where they can find and buy your products. It is like having a common store for your customers all around the globe. However, a website with a bunch of product descriptions alone cannot attract your customers to visit it unless you are a very strong brand. So how do you get people to visit your website?

Can Translating Your Website Increase Your Business?

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Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:04

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If you have a global business, you probably already have an online presence by means of a website, a social networking profile, or something similar. Now, the Internet has users from all over the globe, and if you have noticed it on your website statistics, you know that many of these customers belong to countries that do not have English as their first language. Therefore, if your product or service can benefit these customers, you might want to consider presenting it to them in their native language.