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Translate Text

Using the Research feature, one can translate single words or short phrases by using bilingual dictionaries or translate the entire document by using Web-based machine translation services. To translate text, the user may also need to satisfy the operating system requirements for specific languages. The user can enable an Enhanced...

Tags: Machine Translation, Language

White papers 2007-12-01

Google updates their translator for every language

Philipp Lenssen wrote an interesting article today about an update to Google's language tools. He says that the new updates may be the result of Google's statistical machine translation efforts that have been applied to language pairs such as Arabic to English and vice versa. He...

Tags: Google Inc., Result, Machine Translation, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Leveraging Intelligence Resources

Intelligence agencies are under tremendous pressure to perform. Escalating terrorist threats from around the world have created national security imperatives to collate, decipher, corroborate, and disseminate accurate intelligence analyses effectively in a timely manner. The problem is that intelligence officers and analysts suffer from information overload. In reality, there are...

Tags: Agency, Problem, Intelligence, Analyst, Machine Translation, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2007-02-01

Lost in translation: More on the crimes of Google translation

Lost in translation: More on the crimes of Google translationWhat's your point?Translation is an extremely difficult computational problem, because doing it correctly in all situations requires that the system truly understand the meaning of the phrases or sentences that are being translated. Many of the existing automatic translation systems...

Tags: Poetry, Google Translation, Google Inc., machine translation

Discussion threads 2006-11-10

New tech speaks many languages at once

New tech speaks many languages at onceThis part isn't true, its old tech" In the past few years, however, researchers have switched to using statistical analysis to get the job done."This is not true, that technique dates to the 1970's. I hope this doesn't for tell a patent frenzy because...

Tags: technique, machine translation, corpus, New Tech

Discussion threads 2005-10-27

Google dominates in machine translation tests

Google dominates in machine translation testsAnd where is Microsoft???Tha band of punks at Google is making Microsoft look bad again. Seems like all the computer power they can put to bear using Linux is just too much for the idiots trying to use Windows.Chinese WhispersHuman translators not yet relegated to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., machine translation test, machine translation

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

TransApp (zip)

Translate text directly from your taskbar into and from English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese, and Korean, with new languages being added all the time. If you are not happy with the quality of the machine translation, you are only one click away...

Tags: Machine Translation

Software downloads 2004-09-26

Additional Resources

Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...

Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-23

TTProtect (zip)

TTProtect is an advanced software protection tool, it protect software against cracker. It absorb the advantages of the other protections, and adding own characteristics, use of a unique anti-tracking methods, make it difficult to debug protected application. TTprotect features Debugger Detection, Anti-Attached, Drx decoding, Code Chaos and confusion, Virtual Machine...

Tags: Software, TTProtect, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-23

The App Store's buggy update process

The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that's where the fun ends. The update process...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iTunes, Computer, App Store, Update Process, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Is this the New Apple?

PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G.  After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?180 million soldMany buyers are selecting more expensive versions. Microsoft revenues are up extraordinarily. Despite Apple's ads and sales, PC sales are up significantly.And the SP 1 release usually helps sales.You might consider that the reputation you discuss...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, Apple Inc., Vista psychosis, psychosis, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tapWinner if they don't sacrifice qualityThis move would be a winner as long as Apple doesn't sacrifice quality. If they lower prices by making lower quality products, game over. If they just shave off price overhead, that's great. If they...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...

Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

VMware and common performance myths

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...

Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-22

WinRemotePC Lite (exe)

WinRemotePC is a program that allows you to work on a remote PC as on your local computer. With WinRemotePC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that...

Tags: PC, Remote Desktop, Plug-in, WinSoftMagic, WinRemotePC, WinRemotePC Video Driver Technology, Plug-in Architecture, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Custodia AntiVirus with Personal Firewall (exe)

Active protection against viruses, Trojans, worms, and other forms of malware. Featuring innovative and patented technology to scan, detect, and remove viruses, registry protection, e-mail scan, file shredder, and embedded scan for other programs such as MS Office, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, WinZip, and WinRAR....

Tags: Firewall, Personal Firewall, Canada, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-07-22

WinRemotePC (exe)

WinRemotePC is a program that allows you to work on a remote PC as on your local computer. With WinRemotePC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that...

Tags: Machine, WinSoftMagic, WinRemotePC, WinRemotePC Video Driver Technology, Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere

Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhereSony can afford to.They aren't selling $299.00 desktops or $399.00 laptops. There systems sell for a premium. Other OEMs are forced to subsidize the hardware with these offers.Reactions"First reaction: That's great that Sony is moving the needle on...

Tags: Broadband Internet, OEM, crapware, Crapware

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere

Ed Bott is the picture of PC bliss. He got a crapware free Sony laptop and you'd think the guy is in heaven. Ed writes: For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of...

Tags: Revenue, Sony Corp., PC, PC Company, Manufacturer, Ed, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21