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VoIP Takes 20% of U.S. Residential Phone Lines

It shouldn’t be a surprise that residential customers of incumbent phone companies have either moved to “wireless only” or are taking advantage of lower-priced VoIP-based carriers (often offered by the “other incumbents” like meaning cable companies or IP-Telephony specialists).

Machine Translation Making its Presence Known

In recent months, we’ve seen the community of companies offering MT taking significant steps forward. Perhaps lured by market assessments that valued global spending on “language translation and education services” at $12 billion in 2008. Realistically, that may represent a market peak, as relatively inexpensive machine translation solutions gain acceptance in a growing number of use cases where they can easily replace more expensive “human translators”.