Multilingual News & Articles

The launch of Xerox's (news, site) enhanced eDiscovery solution that should dramatically reduce the time it takes companies to fulfill eDiscovery and compliance obligations in languages other than English, should shake things up in the battle for dominance of the eDiscovery market.

With a name Immigrations Services would be proud of, the new solution, called Foreign Language Identifier (FDI), works with 45 languagues and streamlines the document review processes in eDiscovery searches. At least that's what they say.
 

About a year and a half ago, Facebook launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish. Since then, they've been busy working with community translators to translate the site into oodles of languages. From French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Italian, they worked their way up to 55 languages.

Now, they'd like you to know that thanks to its community translators, a la user-driven translation program, Facebook is available in 64 different languages. And that's not all.

Facebook is extending its translations to Facebook Connect, the platform that lets third-party websites offer Facebook login to their users and push information back to the News Feed.

 Looking at Surreal CMS (news, site) one wonders whether this web content management provider is coming from a James Bond-like background, or is under some sort of a perpetual NDA. The absolute lack of product version numbers or release notes makes it all quite umm… surreal.

Our intelligence forces have intercepted a message via a little-known transmission channel called Twitter that there was a new (unnamed, unnumbered) version of Surreal CMS released. And now we can share some super minimal (rest must’ve gotten scrambled), almost top secret details with you.

Expansion, expansion, expansion. There are tons of ways companies can achieve it, but TeamViewer’s most recent method of choice is of the multilingual variety.

The desktop sharing software, which was already available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Danish, has added six new languages to the family: Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish and Japanese.

Remember when WordPress (news, site) was like, Hey guys! Check out my new multilingual support, because on top of a being *the* most popular blogging platform in all the land, I’m also on the way to being a complete content management cure-all!

Ok, WordPress didn’t actually say that. But the team behind WPML, the mega-plugin for multilingual functionality within Wordpress, no doubt has intentions along those lines. Back with more finesse to impress, OnTheGoSystems has released what they’re calling a “major update” to WPML, which reportedly integrates human translation services.

Well, well, well, it appears as though WordPress fanboys and fangirls are even more bent on making the popular platform a complete Content Management cure-all than we initially thought.

Though it’s no secret that additions and plugins are always being built for the blogging tool, this time we've been hit closer to home. WPML, a mega-plugin written by OnTheGoSystems, aims to boost WordPress from simple blogging platform into the realm of proper Web Content Management Systems. The method? Multilingual support.

Waiting for multi-lingual solutions or extensions is beginning to become like waiting for public transport -- nothing for ages, then three come all at the same time.

So it is over the past three days. On Friday, dotCMS moved its multilingual web content management up a notch with v1.7, yesterday Vasont Systems announced it had added multilingual features to its v12.

And now, UK–based Claromentis (news, site) has announced a complete multi-language extension with its v5.6 enterprise content management system.

dotCMS (news, site), an open source J2EE/Java Web CMS, released a new version -- v1.7. The last time we saw an update was back last year, when 1.6.5 came out.

What’s new and exciting in 1.7? The answer is -- plenty. Should you jump on the dotCMS train? Read on, and then decide.

Globalization doesn't mean the end of language. In most cases, it means more. And the ability to communicate in the global world means having to conduct business across cultures and countries. Yet, many corporate managers are finding multi-lingualism a barrier.

Riding the CQ 5 and CRX momentum waves, Day Software (site, news) just released CQ 5.2 featuring new Social Collaboration (SoCo) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications.

While marrying web content management with social media, web 2.0 and DAM is hardly revolutionary -- nowadays, it’s more about execution than the idea itself.

MO Group International (MOGI) and Clay Tablet Technologies announced their intention to combine forces for mutual benefit. The two companies expect the partnership to impact translation and localization services, as well as multilingual SEO strategies and online integration techniques.

Today is the day for eDiscovery releases. As companies flock to Legal Tech in New York City this week, the conference that boasts itself the "largest and most important legal technology event of the year" for law office technology, you can bet that eDiscovery is a hot topic. Capitalizing on the attention and enthusiasm of a captive audience, many are revealing new releases and enhanced capabilities of their products, hopeful to have the lawyers leaping out of their seats!

Such is the case with Clearwell Systems. The same folks that offered us their insights for the Top Ten Trends for eDiscovery in 2009 are boasting new functionalities that prove to "solve the global eDiscovery challenge."

The linguistic landscape of the World Wide Web is changing. Though at times English seems like the most widely spoken and used language, we are humbled to remember that there are hundreds, if not thousands of languages.

When it comes to the web, Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Such stats should serve as a wake up call for the many global businesses still needing to improve the way they create, manage and publish multilingual content.

By making the web much more compatible and engaging for non-English speaking or writing users (who until now have had to suffer through complicated keyboard maps or the struggle of querying in a language that's not their own) globalization innovations will allow all users to connect and communicate in their language of choice.

Following up on its latest study on how global businesses need to actively create, manage and publish multilingual content, the Gilbane Group is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 24, at 2 p.m. EST.

The webinar is dedicated to helping companies develop enterprise strategies that are crucial for creating, managing and publishing multilingual business communications.

Recently we reported about how global businesses need to become, well, more global. At least in the way they create, manage and publish multilingual content. Companies need to think more strategically about global content management, if they are to be key players in the global marketplace.

In an effort to provide more context to the conversation and profile an active contributor to the translation and localization industry, we spoke with Paula Shannon, senior VP and chief sales and marketing officer of Lionbridge Technologies.