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  • Nuance FlexT9 for Americas Spanish Now Available for Free for a Limited Time

    Posted on June 15, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Web now supports non-Latin characters for addresses

    Web now supports non-Latin characters for addresses

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Pretty important day in the history of the World Wide Web, if not the Internet as a whole. ICANN, sorta the Internet's regulator, will for the first time now allow non-Latin characters for Web addresses. That means that, if we wanted, sometime in the future we could register a Russian version of CrunchGear.com at KPYHЧГИP.PYC (that's just an example, who knows what the actual Russian country code will be). Took them long enough!

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  • Amazon Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.

    Amazon Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazon.com this morning announced that it is expanding its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform worldwide, giving more authors and publishers the chance to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers around the world in the Kindle Store. Until today, DTP was only available to authors and publishers based in the United States. Amazon says additional language options with DTP will be added in the coming months.

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  • Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    51DAgfE6WWL Lingo, the maker of talking and multi-lanaguage translators, have debuted more then 15 different translators at CES. The units announced ranging from models with six languages, all the way to 52 languages — prices range from $19.95 to $299. Lingo has versions of it's translator for students well, the WorldMate 6 goes for $19.95, and includes 30,000 words, and 720 phrases in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. It also has one touch language icons featuring the country flags, which allow users to switch easily between languages.

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  • Flipnote Studio: Nintendo DSi gets social drawing service in six languages

    Flipnote Studio: Nintendo DSi gets social drawing service in six languages

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    There are seven million Nintendo DSi in the world now, and the system is the first in the DS series (total sales: 102 million) boasting Internet connectivity. And Nintendo just stepped up efforts to tap the handheld's network effect by releasing Flipnote Studio, a social drawing app that's available for free in the DSiWare store. It's the first user-generated web service for the DSi.

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