Translation Services Blog

IBM are of course best known as long established world leaders in computing hardware, networking infrastructure and consultancy services and are well known for their innovation and willingness to experiment with ideas and to branch out into new areas. This was demonstrated in 1997 when after some years of research they pitted their supercomputer Deep Blue against international chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov…the final result was that Deep Blue won the match, however, the event demonstrated the bravery and innovation present within IBM.

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You would imagine that in these days of uncertain security, the main proponent of global security issues would be ahead of, indeed, on top of their game. In a recent testimony to a US Congressional hearing, however, Bassem Youssef, Unit Chief for the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit and the most senior Arab-American member if the FBI, has stated that due to chronic staffing shortages in FBI linguistic posts, the US would be unable to effectively defend America from attack.

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All is apparently not well on the Translation Services front between the USA and South Korea…and by the information brought to the fore during this spat; all does not seem to be well with US animal feed policy either.

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It has often been said that ‘the early bird catches the worm’ and this has been proved time and time again in the business world; but now leading research has shown that the early bird not only catches the worm, but spends less money doing so.

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When most of us think of translation services, all of the standard and familiar branches of the profession immediately spring to mind; Document Translations, Technical Translations, Website Localisation, Interpreting Services etc. One branch of the profession that is often forgotten about though, is Sign Language Interpretation and this is a fact being highlighted by CETRA Language Solutions a US based company specialising in exactly this branch of language translations.

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The vagaries of the marketplace often push companies onto different paths than they could have foreseen and likewise can often cause them to make business decisions that they never might have expected; the comments of Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a recent interview then, are somewhat illuminating and perhaps prophetic.

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