TranslationBy 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…

Translationby Russell Holly In a clever amalgamation of old timey presentation and state of the art technology, Google’s latest Chrome Experiment is likely to make you smile while you waste some time talking to yourself. Check out The Peanut Gallery, a new website that uses Chrome’s voice translation to let you create fun silent movies….

TranslationGoogle 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…

TranslationBy Todd R. Weiss  Google’s Chrome gets a new feature that opens the door for cool new Web capabilities. Google’s Chrome Web browser took a big step forward in January when a beta version was given speech-recognition capabilities that promised integration with Web applications to give users new ways of getting tasks accomplished. Now the…

Translationby Kate Woodsome While Egyptians were busy voting for a new president, a glitch in Google Translate’s system accidentally revived the presidency of Hosni Mubarak. When one typed “I will respect Egypt’s future president” in English, the Arabic translation was, “I will respect President Hosni Mubarak.” Mubarak, who is reportedly clinging to life on a…

Translation by OMAR EL AKKAD – TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google is attempting to build the world’s most comprehensive resource on the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of extinction. The search engine announced on Thursday the launch of the Endangered Languages Project, a website that allows users to archive audio, video and written…

TranslationGoogle has now decided to deal with the problem of copyright infringement and piracy. These two issues are augmenting exponentially. Seeing how the company has received up to 1.2 million URL removals pleas every month, the company highlighted the most is Microsoft. The internet search giant has come up out with its Transparency Report that…

TranslationLondon designers Ben West and Felix Heyes have come up with their version of the dictionary for the web 2.0 culture. Instead of a dictionary filled with words, they decided to make one that shows an image that appears whenever you Google a particular word. Weighing in at 1,240 pages, each word in a standard…

TranslationGoogle just recently launched a new feature, still in beta, that allows website owners to customize the translation of content on their sites. “While we’ve kept improving our machine translation system since, we may not reach perfection until someone invents full-blown Artificial Intelligence,” Jeff Chin, a Google Translate product manager, wrote in a blog…

TranslationGoogle casts its web across the continent. Any complaints? Africa is developing even faster than the new highways of offline Africa. Undersea cables reaching Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts, plus innovative mobile-phone providers, have raised internet speeds and slashed prices. In some African markets you can buy a daily dose of internet…