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Consumers Demand Better Service Online

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

A new survey from Harris Interactive reveals that approximately 90% of online users experience problems completing online shopping, banking, travel, and insurance business transactions. And, they don’t like it. When online transactions fail, shoppers usually leave the ...

Filed under: Localization : Usability

Hackos on DITA and Localization

Monday, November 07, 2005

JoAnn Hackos, President of Comtech Services Inc. and Director of The Center for Information Development Management (CIDM), was recently interviewd by The Globalization Insider about the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Here’s a quick peek at what Hackos ...

Filed under: DITA : Globalization : Localization

Hackers Get Mac OS To Run on PCs

Saturday, August 13, 2005

In an article published on Wired.com entitled, 0Mac Hacks Allow OS X to run on PCs, the author, Mark Baard, writes, “Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs.” He goes on ...

Filed under: Content Management : Localization

Enter The Year’s Ten Best International Web Support Sites Awards

Friday, August 12, 2005

Is your organization maintaining its support web site in more than one language? Then we invite you to have your work recognized by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP), known worldwide for its Year’s Ten Best Web Support Sites program.

ASP and the ...

Filed under: Localization : Technical Writing

Browser Wars: Internet Explorer Loses More Market Share

Thursday, September 16, 2004

According to eWeek, September 15, 2004, “Microsoft Internet Explorer is continuing to lose share in the browser market, as its much-smaller competitors chisel at its dominant position, new Web site visitor data shows.”

The likely reason for the drop in market share is ...

Filed under: Localization

Single Sourcing Case Study: IDX Systems

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

A single source publishing case study entitled IDX Systems Corporation: Single-Source Publishing and Knowledge Management is included in the August 2004 edition of The Gilbane Report. The case study discusses the symptoms of content problems, identifying appropriate ...

Filed under: Content Management : Localization

Translation Business Practices Report

Friday, August 20, 2004

If you are involved in translation of content, check out The Translation Business Practices Report, a World Bank survey of 111 governmental and nongovernmental organizations, translation agencies and private sector companies designed to benchmark translation business ...

Filed under: Content Management : Localization

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