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Chinese Communist Party-Backed Tech Giants Bring Censorship To The Global Stage. Editor’s note: Elizabeth Coates is a researcher on Chinese human rights and Internet censorship.

Chinese Communist Party-Backed Tech Giants Bring Censorship To The Global Stage

Chinese search giant Baidu entered the Brazilian market last week with the launch of a localized Portuguese search engine called Baidu Busca. It’s the second international language version of its website (a Japanese site went live in 2007), and new ones are planned for Egypt and Thailand. With enthusiastic backing from the Chinese Communist Party, Baidu is one of several Chinese tech giants looking to branch out internationally and challenge the primacy of American companies.

Supporting the global expansion of tech companies is not merely an economic calculation for Chinese leaders (though they do have much to gain). More important are the political dividends and the opportunity to influence international public opinion. It should come as no surprise, then, that the Portuguese version of Baidu produces heavily censored results on topics considered “sensitive” to the Chinese leadership. British firms look for German, French, Spanish language skills. Every day, many companies, businesses and firms look for German, French, Spanish language skills.

British firms look for German, French, Spanish language skills

Staff capable of speaking fluently any of those languages is better paid and highly appreciated by employers. Paradoxically, the UK’s education system is not promoting foreign language learning so this need is often met by contracting workers from other European nations. The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) carried out a survey in co-operation with Pearson Education and Skills, which revealed nearly two-thirds of the 300 British companies that were contacted thought they would be likely to hire people with foreign language skills than monolinguals. Although successive British governments have repeatedly claimed more school children are learning a foreign language, and that the teaching of foreign languages was core to bring the country closer to Europe, the research points to an “alarming shortage” of people with foreign language skills even in the world’s major languages.

Be a translator. 12 Personality Traits That Make You a Rock-Star Boss (Infographic) Relationships can go two ways.

12 Personality Traits That Make You a Rock-Star Boss (Infographic)

And if a relationship isn’t working, it’s so tempting -- and so easy -- to look across the table to find the problem. But the problem may be you. Translation Should Be Included in Higher Education Curriculum - Official - allAfrica.com. 20 Unusual Things 20 Successful People Do Every Day. Blog - TAUS meets Tars - Developer Creates Reader For Glass To Assist In Word Translation And Definition On Printed Text. Google Glass may still be in an open beta form, but more Glass apps continue to make their way into the limelight.

Developer Creates Reader For Glass To Assist In Word Translation And Definition On Printed Text

A new application for Google Glass called Reader for Glass aims to give the ease of web connected reading to the hardbook and printed reading experience, by allowing those who are wearing Glass to search for and define words they’re reading in a printed format. This isn’t something that is really necessary when you read things off the web, because you’re already connected and you can easily do a quick search for the definitions of the things you want to learn more about. The same thing goes for translations. Blogs. Earlier this evening Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., in talk during the Code Conference, unveiled an early look at the Skype Translator app.

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This app represents a breakthrough in language translation jointly developed by Microsoft researchers and Skype engineers, bridging geographic and language barriers through the use of real-time speech-to-speech translation. The functionality combines Skype voice and instant messaging, Microsoft Translator and machine-learning based technologies for speech recognition that are used in Windows and Windows Phone Translation applications today. During Nadella’s conversation with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of the Re/code tech website relating to a new era of personal computing, he asked Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Lync and Skype, to join him on stage. Watch the Demo The Skype Translator app will available first on Windows 8 later this year as a limited beta.

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Facebook Is Not Part of My Social Strategy. When it comes to social media, if a business is using it, you can bet that the first social network they levitate towards is Facebook.

Facebook Is Not Part of My Social Strategy

Whilst Facebook is still the largest social network in the world, active users here in the UK have been in decline for more than a year now. Translation Guy. Pangeanic .com. Professional Translation services. October 22, 2013.

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Cuatro claves para amortizar una web de empresa en varias lenguas - Manuel Herranz, de la empresa valenciana Pangeanic, explica cuáles son los beneficios de tener un plataforma online sin ningún error en diferentes idiomas - Noticias de Economía en Patern. Understanding MT Customization. While we have reached a point in time where many more people realize that machine translation (MT) produces the best results when it is properly customized, what customization actually means is still not well understood.

Understanding MT Customization

There is a significant difference between shallow customization and deep customization in terms of the impact on the MT system’s output quality. The quality of output in turn has a direct impact on the potential business leverage and return on investment. Multimodal Project Pangeanic Manuel Herranz testing face recognition. KenMorse02212014d. About PangeaMT « PangeaMTPangeaMT.