While Wim Elfrink makes headlines as Cisco’s chief globalization officer and developing human capital around the globe, Brian Shorey and his team have the more mundane task of globalizing the company’s internal systems. Last week, Cisco held a vendor-palooza to which program manager Richard Faubert invited language service provider partners (and us) to learn about […]

Last week at the LISA conference in Foster City, California, CEO Smith Yewell raised the possibility of putting Welocalize’s recently acquired GlobalSight Ambassador software into the open-source arena. Meanwhile, disenfranchised Idiom buyers brought up the topic of open-sourcing WorldServer as SDL outlines its plans for migrating them to its own SDL TMS product. Open source, […]

Major high-tech suppliers like Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, PTC, and Sun Microsystems have signed on to support the TAUS Data Association (TDA). TAUS, the Translation Automation User Society, launched its data sharing initiative a little more than a year ago. At the end of June, the TDA will formally incorporate in Amsterdam […]

We’ve had many a chuckle at the universal translator devices of science fiction lore — and it’s never a surprise to us when these fictional creations show up on screen, enabling an alien’s roar to be converted into perfect English (usually with an American accent). In fact, we gave a presentation on the topic at […]