Translation stories making headlines this week seemed to include a great spectrum of stories from current, exciting technologies that spring us into the future and remind us of the types of things we might have seen in sci-fi futuristic films in our younger years, to translations of or from the […]
This week, Google launched a powerful and interesting new translation feature for smartphones – the ability to use the camera to detect that something is text, read it and translate it! Of course, it’s not working at the level of a human interpreter and translator who can understand and distinguish […]
Inside The New Communities Partnership New Communities Partnership (NCP) is an independent national network of 175 immigrant led groups comprising of 75 nationalities with offices in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. They support and strengthen the Irish citizenship communities, providing communal/social space for ethnic minority led organisations, making available and circulating […]
Ireland is one of the leading countries in Europe when it comes to tech and web industries. Google, Facebook, Twitter and PayPal all have headquarters here. With that, comes a culture of people who are frequently in contact with people at the fore of new developments. So it’s natural that […]
22,000 attendees, speakers and exhibitiors from all over the globe have gathered in the RDS for three jam packed days and many evening events this week, to talk all things web, tech and digital at the RDS for the Web Summit. Among them is translation software firm Smartling […]
The French State and its team of UFO hunters! France has the biggest European space agency. This is a result of the space race back in the 60’s and President Charles de Gaulle’s grand determination to keep France independent of the US by building its own satellites, rocket launchers and […]
Moving countries is a big process, packing and booking flights, organising visas, translating documents you’ll need, finding a home and of course, finding a job. Different countries have different systems of certification for all sorts of training, areas and industries and having your qualifications recognised in a new country can […]
The Association of Turks in Serbia has launched an initiative for the introduction of the Turkish language in Serbian schools. The class will be an optional course beginning at fifth grade level. It’s seen as a beneficial move for language rights as well as promoting cultural diplomacy. “Ali Sahovic, a representative […]
Writer and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders has been getting some lovely attention for her recently published book in which she illustrates and describes words that have no direct translation in English. Image published here with permission from Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders, copyright (c) 2014. Published by Ten Speed […]
The 2nd Career Zoo of 2014 took place last weekend in Dublin. The event was held, as the previous one, in the Convention Centre at the North Wall Quay. The admission to the event was free, and it held over 50 exhibitors among all fields such as Science, IT […]
