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Idiom® Technologies, Inc, the leading independent supplier of SaaS and on-premise server-based globalisation management systems, and Language Weaver announced that they have signed a strategic marketing and technology integration agreement. The two companies plan to offer an integrated machine assisted human translation solution that uses Language Weaver’s statistically-based machine translation in Idiom WorldServer™ automated translation workflows.
For more information http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070412005452&newsLang=en

Google is currently developing a translation programme which will translate a document into any of the world’s main languages.
Google admits that the programme may not be suited to accurate-critical document translations but it should be able to deliver a ‘mostly correct translation’.
So far, the Google statistical machine translation system is offering translations from Arabic, Chinese and Russian to English. The tool is free for the time being.

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Language123.com, a translation marketplace where professional linguists promote their services, has created a personal Blog space targeted to translators, interpreters, and linguists.
These Blogs are intended to encourage subscribers to communicate with other language professionals, receive and send tips and hints about the translation service as a business and announce their own news to other parties that might be interested.
http://language123.com/blog/blog-post.html

Translator’s Corner ( http://www.translatorscorner.com/ ) is a new online marketplace for freelance translators created by a group of translation software developers and former project managers.
Designed to help freelance translators conduct business safely and quickly, Translator’s Corner contains several sections and tools: SecureTrans (software designed to make contracting a professional translator over the internet safe and easy), TC Online Court, My Corner and Auto Price Comparison.

Advanced International Translations, a translation agency and localization and software development company, has released a searchable software dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. AcroLexic contains over 70,000 acronyms and more than 150,000 definitions. It is meant to assist translators, linguists and technical writers but also anyone else dealing with text documents on a daily basis.
For more information - http://www.translation3000.com/dictionary_of_acronyms_and_abbreviations

Kilgray Translation Technologies has released version 2.0 of the Integrated Localization Environment MemoQ. This version features a new resource server that stores translation memories and term bases and offers the possibility of creating server projects that allow for the easy distribution of work among several translators.
MemoQ 2.0 comes with several improvements on the client side too: support for XML and Adobe FrameMaker MIF file formats, improvements to all other supported file formats, support for the Segmentation Rule eXchange standard, auto-propagation of translated segments etc.
You can find a downloadable version of this product here http://www.kilgray.com/kilgray/products/memoq/try?locale=en

MultiCorpora, a leading provider of Enterprise Language Management solutions, has recently launched MultiTrans 4.2. This tool combines all the advantages of conventional translation memory with a contextual TextBase TM approach. MultiTrans 4.2 is TMX and Unicode compliant, it processes and creates unclean translation RTF files, supports Word, WordPerfect, XML, HTML, PDF files and desktop publishing formats. Furthermore, it enables centralized linguistic assets sharing through a secure web application.
For more info - http://www.multicorpora.com

Lexicool.com, a directory of online dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet, is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.
Lexicool.com has recently launched Lingo 4.0 Terminology Management System, a Windows-based terminology tool for translators and localizers. Lingo 4.0 allows users to create and manage large multilingual dictionaries in any language combinations and to search through several dictionaries simultaneously. The program is fully Unicode compatible, can import and export XML (TMX), and can be used with any Windows word processor.
For further information: http://www.lexicool.com/soft_lingo2.asp

The portal for language professionals, ProZ.com, has showcased ProZ.com for Employers at Localization World in Montréal, October 17-18, 2006. This new linguist sourcing and applicant tracking solution grants language service providers and end clients access to the world’s largest network of more than 160,000 translators, interpreters and linguists.
ProZ.com for Employers is equipped with worldwide location-based search, precise filtering resulting in a manageable number of highly targeted resumes and tools that enable dispersed sourcing teams to view, save and manage online the best translators for a given project.

The well known portal for freelance translators and translation agencies, TranslationDirectory has started to publish a series of free glossaries and dictionaries, the first being a glossary of religious terms, a water science glossary of terms and an everyday Yiddish-English-Yiddish dictionary.
All dictionaries and glossaries can be accessed here http://www.translationdirectory.com
TranslationDirectory invites all authors to submit their glossaries and dictionaries for publishing. Please use this email for contacting their website - onoshko@mail.uar.net .