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”.
The demo at Google I/O 2010 had lots of glitches, but the importance of Google TV for the developer community and for the TV-watching public cannot be overestimated.
Right out the gate, Google’s I/O Conference became the epicenter for news generation around Recombinant Communications.
Greg Sterling , program director with Opus Research’s Internet2Go, has an interesting write-up over at Search Engine Land on Google’s acquisition of Global IP Solutions (GIPS). The $68 million cash acquisition of the San Francisco-based VOIP provider reaffirms Google has… Read More ›
With the likes of Google and AT&T Labs in the driver’s seat, efforts to assemble mobile solutions that incorporate speech into multimodal interactions are gaining both visibility and momentum.
Google has made some major updates to Google Docs.
Speculation swirls around the future of Palm and the WebOS.
I can’t think of Google TV as anything else but Recombinant Television.
Two communications-oriented news stories make us long for more “public options” or at least more options for the public to build its own mobile solutions.
It was gratifying to see this post by Tim Hastings in ReadWriteWeb, addressing “multi-factor authentication in the cloud”. I was especially interested to note that the dynamic duo of VMWare and Intel are sponsors of the ReadWrite Cloud “channel”, which… Read More ›