In the early 90s, while on a trip in Silicon Valley, my car rental sported a new GPS navigation prototype that the rental company was testing. It offered accurate and useful maps while in the San Jose area. But as I drove to visit a relative in Salinas, the GPS navigation display run out of data and displayed nothing but a blank screen with the car icon in the middle and a compass on top, rendering it almost useless and sending me adrift.
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are very useful but only when local data is available. Despite of the Global name, they are useless without local intelligence!
Similarly, companies … Read More
If you have attempted to use a standard language translation service for the purpose of converting a 
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On a daily basis our sales team gets requests for quotes where the deciding factor is often based only on price. In a soft economy as the one the U.S. is going through right now, everyone can appreciate the importance of keeping budgets and expenses in check. But should price be the sole factor to consider when evaluating multiple bids?
Recently, one of our blog entries tiled “
If you are struggling with your existing translation-localization vendor and cannot find the words to fire them, try the following:
Software Translation Services = Software Localization?
New entrants in the translation service market are also touting new buzzwords like crowdsourcing and cloud solutions. Offering inexpensive or even free offerings, they claim achieving significant automation, simplification and reduction in cost of software translation services, documents and website translation.
Why the need to use words like localization, crowdsourcing and cloud computing? Simply put, translation is old and not as exciting to analysts and fund-raisers as these … Read More