Simulators and more recently Virtual Reality (VR) simulators have been widely used for many years; probably their best known usage has been as an aid to student Commercial Pilots who regularly use flight simulators during their training; student drivers now increasingly have the opportunity to use this technology to improve their skills. The full force of VR simulator technology though, is now being brought to bear by the US Military in a bid to save the lives of their military interpreters.

WizCom Technologies Ltd has today launched their latest product; the Quicktionary®2 Kanji - Portable Japanese reader for distribution to markets worldwide. WizCom are already well known as a provider of portable handheld scanning and translating pens, but their new product incorporates new technology that reads Kanji characters and instantly translates them into either English or Japanese.

Every company is only as good as the professionalism, dedication and hard work of its employees. We at Lingo24 count ourselves extremely fortunate as the effort of all our staff has enabled us to become one of the leading providers of online translation services worldwide.

It has long been our wish to provide some form of recognition to our outstanding translators, whose daily efforts not only contribute to Lingo24’s continuing success, but are over and above what would normally be expected.

When one reads news reports, one encounters many different types of story; informative tracts, entertaining tracts, serious reporting (although that is nowadays a bit of an oxymoron) and every now and again something that strikes one as somewhat akin to a pantomime.

All savvy businessmen know what fantastic opportunities can be opened up by localisation; whether it be localisation of Websites, Product Manuals, or promotional and sales literature. Indeed, it is a proven statistic that companies who sell their products abroad and who accompany their initial sales launch of a product in a foreign territory with fully localised literature and advertising, are 40% more likely to keep within their projected launch budgets than their less diligent rivals.

As one experiences more and more of the world, it becomes apparent that situations are often never very clear cut: in the words of a famous Monkees song there are ‘only shades of grey’.

Well so it seems in The Republic of Ireland where Joan Clarke, a deaf mother is bringing a landmark legal case against The Galway County Registrar, The Courts Service of Ireland and the Attorney General for breach of her human rights under the Human Rights Act 2003; this alleged breach relates to her being discriminated against for being deaf.