Ioana’s Translation News Blog

Whilst certain industries have taken a battering over the past year or so, the future has never looked so good for the translation industry.

Last week saw Europe’s largest technical documentation fair take place. The Tekom Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, presented new translation technologies and methods and also featured a presentation on the future of the translation market in the official conference programme.

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The provider of multilingual asset management solutions MultiCorpora R&D Inc. has announced the release of MultiTrans 4.3.

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LanguageDirector is a translation management system created by the translation company thebigwordGroup.
This platform grants users access to a full range of localisation services (from single language translation requests to the complex and integrated requirements of larger enterprises), it provides translation support software and enables the users to access management information related to their projects.

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Trusted Translations, Inc. has recently launched an operations centre in New York, a centre that will provide Spanish translation services to businesses, government entities and non-profit organizations in the New York City metro area.
CEO Richard Estevez commented: “We are extremely excited by the opportunity to provide the highest quality Spanish translation services in the New York City market and to provide local companies with significant costs savings”.

Verbatim Solutions recently announced the launch of a free translation service tool that creates real time, instant translations between English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Arabic.
This tool offers ‘on the fly’ translations from and into all the above mentioned languages. The service is free of charge and you can try it out here http://www.verbatimsolutions.com/freetranslation.php

The Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University has recently launched its website http://www.centerforliterarytranslation.org/
The joint creation of PEN American Center, the online magazine Words Without Borders, the poetry journal Circumference and the Writing Division, the Center of Literary Translation promotes the study of translation and tries to increase the number and quality of the literary translations published in English by coordinating programs that enhance awareness of the art of translation, the work of translators, and literatures not written in English.

SDL has launched an online customer suggestions portal for the SDL Trados technology community – http://ideas.sdltrados.com/ . This portal gives SDL customers the opportunity to make suggestions and interact with SDL product management, thus helping the company improve their Trados products.

Kilgray Translation Technologies has released version 2.1 of the Integrated Localization Environment MemoQ.
MemoQ 2.1 ‘s translation memory (TM)-driven segmentation enables the automatic adjustment of segment boundaries and it comes in handy for users who need to translate different versions of similar documents.
For more info http://www.kilgray.com/kilgray/

This week Google Inc. enhanced its translation service with a new feature that allows users to enter search requests in their language and then click on a link to have the resulting pages translated. The advantage of this feature is that English terms can now be used to search websites written in other languages.
This feature is currently available in English, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Arabic, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Multilizer 2007 is a new tool family for localisation of content and executables.
Multilizer 2007 Enterprise can be automated to create new localisation projects; scan, build, import/export translations; share translation work; display projects; statistics and many more.
http://www.multilizer.com