TranslationSource by Sara Malm, Daily Mail Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been left red-faced after the name of one of their products was translated into something less than appropriate. A customer put the name of $44.99 pillow Gosa Raps into Google Translate which interpreted it as ‘Cuddle Rape’. The translation of Raps, the Swedish word…

TranslationBy 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…

Translation2012 was a banner year for Translation Cloud, as we took great leaps forward in our continued mission to become one of the leading translation companies around the world in both quality and innovation.  While we are constantly working to improve our services and products, we can’t help but take pride in what we’ve accomplished…

TranslationAs anyone who uses the Google Play Store knows, there are many apps from all different languages available to practically anyone, regardless of the country they live in.  But of course, if you can’t read the description, then how will you know what the app is about, and if it’s worth downloading? Google has been…

TranslationPerhaps, the scariest premonition of Jack Welde from Smartling and the observation of Limited Run’s influx of “bots” is becoming a sad reality: the raise of the foreign speaking internet. Badly educated people from poor countries speaking bad English visit all the sites you visit, diligently fill out online forms, register on websites, and even…

TranslationBy Karen E. Klein for Bloomberg Businessweek I’m looking into starting a translation business, but I worry that with online translation services getting better, my company may one day be obsolete. How well do I have to speak another language to do translation, and is the industry considered recession-proof? —submitted online anonymously If any industries…

TranslationAckuna (http://www.ackuna.com) the free community-based website that provides a free, more accurate language translation alternative to Google Translate and other machine translators, has recently undergone some design changes. For those of you unfamiliar with Ackuna, once you register, you can post text you need translated into any language. Other users, if they know that language,…

TranslationDo you need a reliable Translation service, but don’t have the money to spend on a professional? Ackuna, powered by Translation Services USA, is a translation platform that crowd sources text between multiple translators. Butch Stearns and Stephen Saber of The Pulse Network sit down with Alex Buran, CEO of Translation Services USA, to discuss…

TranslationAckuna, the free translation crowdsource application has recently started to pick up momentum amongst the tech community. Ackuna launched just a few weeks ago, and already it is generating buzz with articles featured in Mashable, Solid Gadgets and TPNTech. Many people who have tried Ackuna have given it rave reviews as a viable alternative to…

TranslationThe Church of Kopimism, the new religion devoted to file-sharing, has been officially recognized in Sweden. Started by Isak Gerson, a 20-year-old philosophy student at Uppsala University in Sweden, together with Gustav Nipe, a member of Sweden’s Pirate party, and others, the Church of Kopimism is founded on the principles that information is holy and…