While there is no evidence yet online, Google has announced its Translate tool will now support Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, the most widely spoken languages on the sub-continent. Google search has been available for some time in 5 Indic languages, as well as sprinkling of other functions, such as posting text scraps in […]

Decades after being discovered by the U.S. census, the Latino community remains an underserved demographic in the United States. An increasing number of businesses offer callers the option of interacting in Spanish and some provide website content as well. That said, some Presidential hopefuls would turn back the clock on the proliferation of the Spanish […]

Today MySpace launched its Brazilian Portuguese website with the goal of challenging Google’s Orkut, which is favored by 14 million of the 20 million Brazilian active internet users. The English version of MySpace already has 1 million samba lovers. But they might be late to the dance. Other social networking tools have already taken hold over there.

From more U.S. money being thrown into Iraq to the U.K. recommending a cut in their £100m spent every year and for officials to “think twice” about spending money on translation, we round up some stories on government spending in translation.