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Apple’s new MacBooks: Spy photos from Taiwan
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... expect to see the new machines before November. Why would anyone with inside information share it with these rumor sites, given the speed and severity with which Apple (AAPL) punishes leakers? You have to wonder. Foxconn, Apple’s Taiwanese manufacturing partner, is said to be even more strict about these things, which may explain the cryptic message posted below the Apple.com images: 下班後小心別被磚塊打 This, according to Babel Fish, roughly translates as: “After getting off work, careful be not ...

EU battlegroups experiencing language problems after mergers
WoW.com — ... merge you" joke). A few amused people are rising to the occasion by translating such phrases as inc 5 schmiede (inc 5 blacksmith in German) or proposing a revival of Esperanto, but the Russian language pack would be the only possible solution for the ???? problem. There's been mention made that this is only a temporary fix on Blizzard's part to faction imbalances on battlegroups, but if you're on an EU realm that's seen a recent battlegroup merge, just be aware that Babelfish might be a useful tool in the near future. ...

iTranslate: Language Translation App for the iPhone
louisgray.com — Between Yahoo! Babel Fish and Google Language Tools, Web surfers have grown accustomed to having easily accessible solutions for text translation between many languages, for individual words, phrases, or even entire Web pages. But on the iPhone, Google's own application doesn't include Language Tools, opening the door for iTranslate, a simple application aimed to bringing the same capabilities to Apple's increasingly popular microcomputer masquerading as a cell phone. The application, free on the iTunes Store, is the first one released by ...

The Twitter Threat: Tweeting Terrorists?
Fast Company - Technology — ... military personnel on Twitter, "and begins to elicit information," that could be "used for a targeting package," such as "identity theft, hacking and/or physical." Now this Dr. Strangelovian report identifies only a few common technologies and products our enemies could deploy to plot our destruction. Why, there are also GPS devices, email, text messaging, cell phones, Skype, the World Wide Web, Microsoft and Apple operating systems, Google Search, Maps and Earth, Microsoft Word, Babelfish (to translate the infidel's language), newspaper classifieds, Craigslist, the U.S. ...

True Story: Beware Of Internet Provided Translations
AppScout — Have you ever used Google's translation feature or Yahoo!'s Babel Fish to help you make sense of a language you don't speak? Be careful! Here's what the BBC says could happen to you. Our story comes from beautiful Wales, where English is spoken, but so is Welsh. In fact the law states all road signs in Wales must be bilingual. When a new sign was being put up to restrict truck traffic the English text, "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only," needed to be translated to Welsh. The procedure was pretty simple. The ...

Google Reader Implements Translation
Mashable! — ... has recently replaced Babelfish as my go-to service for translation, not necessarily because it’s more accurate (it seems to be stronger on some languages, and weaker on others), but because of the longer list of translatable languages available.   ...

Frengly does translation, but does it beat Babelfish?
Download Squad — ... The biggest players in the online translation game are Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate. They both have their unique charms, but a site called Frengly might offer a little competition. Its selection of languages isn't quite as extensive as Google's -- you won't find Hindi, Latvian or Catalan, for example -- but it does offer more languages and more combinations than Babelfish. Frengly's killer feature is auto-detection, though. Frengly's language detection is even cooler than Google's, for a couple of reasons. First, you don't have to select ...

Translating Telepresence
No Jitter — ... . At the same time, the text of what the Madrid worker said appeared below his image on the monitor, similar to a subtitle on a foreign film. At other times, the translation was pretty sketchy. "You can also use to notify local events," was how one sentence came out. This is more like my experience with software-based translations, the sort of awkward, confusing, often nonsensical stuff spit out from online translators like Babelfish . I'd be reluctant to use it in any kind of professional situation, as I have a hard enough time making myself clear in English without ...

HP Magic Giveaway: CiberPrensa and Unión de Bloggers Hispanos
Gear Diary — ... do not have it, that is enough also. In any case, as the prizes continue being very important, and one of the objectives of the HP Magic GiveAway is “to share the magic”, without obligation some, intention to that the winners share part of the prize with needs which it, or are institutions without profit spirit, hospitals, schools or what is wanted. Read the rest of CiberPrensa’s rules and enter their contest by clicking here. (Babelfish helps…) … [visit site to read more ...

Ten Excellent Language Translators And Resources
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... and Yahoo Babel Fish all provide translation services for text and webpages. The Microsoft LiveTranslator is pretty neat as it provides both the original and translated webpages along with sentence highlighting on the screen for easy viewing. ...

Apple Tells German Web Store "Sell Our iPhones, Just Don't Use Our Pictures"
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone — ... fees.  When challenged, Apple Inc. invoked their Image Use Agreement that disallows all image editing and usage in any commercial context, such as competitions or other non-editorial appearances. Amazingly, 3Gstore ended up taking the high road: they commissioned a photographer to create iPhone images, which they then made available under the very liberal Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which allows both editing and commercial usage. *Translate it yourself. [Via The Randolf Jorberg Blog] ...

Imagine there’s no Google (Part 2): The Alternatives
The Next Web — ... Search trendpedia, feedster, icerocket, sphere, Google Chrome Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera,  Google Finance Yahoo Finance, bloomberg, Google Groups Yahoo Groups, onehub, Tangler Google Translate Babel Fish, Nice Translator, Frengly, Jollo, Lingoz,  ...

Commenter Of The Day: Hitchhiker's Guide Edition [Commenter Of The Day]
Jalopnik — ... when inserted into the ear canal automatically translated any foreign language you heard. This was Adams' rather masterful way of addressing the curious fact that characters in science fiction films and novels always seem to be able to communicate just fine despite hailing from opposite ends of the universe. This minor plot device has achieved an inordinate amount of attention throughout the years, including lending its name to AltaVista's (now Yahoo!'s) online translation service, BabelFish. BabelFish has been providing internet users with awkward translations of internet pages ...

Google Translate now understand 41 languages
TG Daily - All News — ... .  While Internet-based translation services have been available for some, most notably Babelfish , which originated from Digital Equipment’s (acquired by Compaq, which was purchased by Hewlett-Packard) Altavista team and is now part of Yahoo, Google Translate supports more languages than any other translation engine on the web. The quality of these services remains impressive, at least if you intend to just understand the meaning of what has been printed in another language and do not intend to use to reprint it in its translated version. Google said that “there's always room ...

Multilingual Web Sites, Part Two: Translation/Localization Resources
OStatic blogs — ... machine translation systems available now in addition to proprietary systems. Two of the best known open source machine translation platforms are Moses and Apertium (which specializes in Spanish and related languages such as Catalan, Galician, Basque and a few others). There are also several commercial translation platforms, and Systran and Language Weaver are two of the best known. Free web-based translation services, such as Google Translate and Babelfish, are also useful for translating web pages, short blocks of text, etc. ...

Gmail gains automatic email translation
Seth H. Weintraub's blog — ... and one that differentiated Google from competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft both in the consumer space and in the enterprise.  [image] As a consumer, I still get email forwards from friends abroad and from my wife who is a French professor.  Just like everyone else, I'd have to cut and past into an online translation tool like Bablefish or ...

Talk to Me: 5 Great Translation Tools
ReadWriteWeb — ... 2. Babel Fish: Human translation will always triumph over online tools. Nevertheless, unless you're a diplomat, it's unlikely that you've got a polyglot at your disposal. One of the most established online translation tools, Babel Fish allows users to translate large blocks of text and URLs. This is particularly useful to understand hotel websites, online menus and directions. Microsoft's ...