by Barry Schwartz Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu. Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use, but they say they are still committed to making the Web available to as many people, in as many languages, as possible. The translated…

Ackuna, the free crowdsource translation platform designed for app developers now offers professional quality translations.   Ackuna, the free open-source translation platform designed specifically for app developers who want to make their applications multi-lingual, now offers a professional translation option for more accurate results and a faster delivery. New Jersey-based tech startup Ackuna, http://www.ackuna.com, has…

Israeli online translation company Babylon Ltd. (BBYL.TV) said Tuesday it has signed a four-year revenue- sharing agreement with portal Yahoo Inc. ( YHOO ). Founded in 1997, Babylon is an international Internet company engaged in the development, marketing and sales of software solutions in the search and translation field. The Company is controlled by Noam…

by Shona Ghosh, PC PRO Amazon’s failure to support Welsh on the Kindle has sparked a row over the firm’s language restrictions. Welsh publisher Y Lolfa has launched a petition calling on Amazon to support Welsh after the retail giant said it was unable to support the language. Up until recently, Y Lolfa was able to list its Welsh books…

By John P. Mello, CSO, NetworkWorld Spammers are using Google’s good reputation to dodge mail filters and deliver their irritable spew to inboxes across the Internet. The junkster tactic was discovered by Barracuda Labs after examining the messages from a variety of large-volume spam campaigns showing up in the company’s honeypots. The messages contain links…

By Vignesh Ramachandran, Mashable International travelers can put away the pocket bilingual dictionaries. Packaged along with Thursday’s glitz announcing Samsung’s new Galaxy S 4 smartphone was an instant translator function. The Galaxy S 4 includes Samsung’s “S Translator” feature, which lets you instantly translate your email or text messages, using text or voice translation. The feature can…

Google Translate has just added a new phrasebook feature to its machine translation tool. Phrasebook for Google Translate allows you to save the most useful phrases (or those you use most often) for easy reference later on.  This can be an extremely useful time saver if you find yourself needing to translate certain phrases over…

Translation Cloud API is now available on the much talked about website, Mashape.  Mashape has recently been featured on websites like TechCrunch, Mashable, and Forbes as a website designed to consume, distribute and monetize private and public APIs. Mashape makes it easy to distribute, monetize, manage and consume cloud APIs. Mashape is in the process…

Military economies also accelerate the growth of defense contractors. One of the sectors to benefit from this policy has been the translation industry. John Maynard Keynes was one of the first economists to advocate that governments devote a large portion of their budget to the military in order to stimulate economic growth. Doing so would…

British musician Peter Gabriel, along with famed computer scientist Vint Cerf and several research scientists, seek to develop capabilities for animals to communicate with humans through the Internet. Speaking at a recent TED conference in California, Gabriel proposed that a networked video streaming platform could be used to communicate with other animals, Agence France-Presse reported Friday. The platform…