Google has announced the launch of the Google Translator toolkit, an editor designed to give translators an easy means of bringing the "human touch" to machine translation, which everybody knows is often flawed.
Twitter Drives The Speculation Machine
The rising speculation among the technorati out there is that Twitter is the next big acquisition. There have already been offers made and turned down, but one expert thinks the buyer will be Google or Yahoo because search can’t afford to miss out on Twitter’s potential as a disruptive force—the word “killer” once again deployed in hyperbolic force.
Google’s Translation Center Feeds The Machine
Google took the lid off a new service today, an extension of its Translate service called Google Translation Center that connects translators with people who need content translated into other languages. All compensation arrangements are left to the individuals involved, but Google will store results on its own servers.
Domain Frontrunning: A Ghost In The Machine
The domain frontrunning issue isn’t exactly an open-and-shut case. In fact, it’s more like an X-Files case. ICANN can’t find evidence the practice really exists, and the one entity who says he has proof won’t provide that proof.It’s not like enacting policies against ghosts, exactly. You don’t need proof of the existence of frontrunning to enact a policy against it. But in this case, proof might have helped Network Solutions not look so bad.
E Voting Machine Distrust
The big three voting machine folks need to start spinning some PR here, ever since 2000, with the election of George Bush by a decision of the Supreme Court; electronic voting machines have come under increasing scrutiny.
Google’s Phone Patent A Ghost In Your Machine
For now, we’ll put off dark fantasies of robots taking over. No, no, no. No Skynet, no iRobot, none of that. If you don’t want go cross-eyed trying to read a recent Google patent application, just take some smart people’s word for it. Google’s working on a phone technology that knows more about you than you do.
The Machine Has No Soul – Sha Doobie
I make a living in the computer world. I love gizmo’s, spec’s, and waxing ethereal on all things IT. I wanted to be a rock star, but this is as close as I could come.
Mac OS X: Time Machine
Apple has added something they are calling Time Machine to the upcoming “Leopard” release of OS X.
Training with the Perfect Integrated Marketing Machine
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Is Your Website a Sales-winning Machine?
With recent reports showing that consumers are sometimes 80% more likely to be influenced by a website to make certain purchases as opposed to other traditional forms of advertising such as television and print, it’s become obvious that equal attention should be given to ensure that a website is in fighting form as to capitalize when consumers come calling as is given to other online marketing efforts.