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Going Global? Don’t Let Your Business Get Lost in Translation
If you have a design team in one country, a factory in another and sales teams on different continents, an integrated translation solution is vital to global success. Translation technology has made exciting advances this year with consumer apps like World Lens and Microsoft’s new Skype Language Translator. You can now point your phone at a sign for an […]
Slated iOS 8 Keyboard Translates Your Text Messages
Communicating with others can be difficult, especially if not everyone in the conversation speaks the same language. Computer-based translation is easing a lot of that pain, but in general it still means a lot of cutting and pasting has to happen, along with interpreting possibly imperfect translations. Slated, a new keyboard now available for iOS 8, […]
Breaking the Language Barrier to Get New Immigrants to Vote
Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the “Your Vote Matters” campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent voters to cast their ballots. A Chinese restaurant during the lunch rush isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a […]