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On September 27, the European Commission (EC) officially announced that Bulgaria and Romania would be allowed to join the European Union (EU) next January, but only under strict conditions. Another 30 million people (representing 6% of the current EU) and 2 new languages will need to be absorbed, bringing the total number of EU members to 27. In The Price of a Cappuccino = Multilingualism as a Democratic Right, the Director-General for Translation at the European Commission explains why multilingualism is a democratic right in the European Union, yet the cost of translation per EU Citizen is still only the price of a cappuccino!
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Karen Eden (Knowledge Development Director for Oracle) shares how her company is using Online Professional Communities to keep its organization on-track as it digests the 18 acquisitions that it has made over the past year in 18 Acquisitions in One Year!
Dr. Minako O’Hagan of SALIS at Dublin City University introduces us into the wild and crazy Tokyo Game Show, the largest of its kind in the world, in New Excitement, New Sensations, A New Generation.
Scott Atwood of PayPal’s Global Foundations Engineering Group takes us behind-the-scenes in We Need to Be in China Now! to explain how his team migrated to Unicode. If you want to avoid the headaches that PayPal encountered, then attend The Thirtieth Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC) in Washington, D.C. (USA) on November 15-17.
OASIS and LISA’s OSCAR work together on several language industry standards. Find out the latest from Andrzej Zydroń of XML-INTL, who serves on both standards bodies, in Language Industry Standards: OASIS and LISA Working Together.
Sony Europe has only had a Translation Services Group since the year 2000. Salomé López-Lavado, Translation Services Manager and founder of the group, shares how smoothly they “crossed the bridge” from a manual to an automated localization workflow model in Implementing Localization Workflow for Pan- European Product Management.
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Congratulations! Just curious: it seems that Globalization Insiders will not be published by month?
Posted by: Elly Liu at October 30, 2006 05:09 AM
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