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Some Android applications will drain your smartphone or tablet of battery life, storage or bandwidth like a blood-sucking fiend. Here’s what’s what with the worst of the worst. Avoid the Android vampire apps | ZDNet.

Tying marketing and other content efforts to the global spectacle that is the World Cup will only take you to the group matches. Companies trying to reach the semifinals with a successful strategy must start with a deep knowledge of the local market and sensitivity to cultural icons. Lost in Localization: Marketing Lessons from 2014 […]

Understanding a foreign language is getting easier with the range of translation apps for your smartphone and computer. 10 things you need to know about translation technology.

Good Afternoon, All: The Court Interpreter Certification Board has filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court proposing amendments to the Florida Rules for Certification and Regulation of Spoken Language Court Interpreters.  Proposed changes under SC14-1055 would extend standards in a manner uniformly applying them, with some limitations, to all persons providing spoken language court […]

Meeting my Italian translator was like meeting a sibling.   SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH AND HIS TRANSLATORS.

I didn’t realise that the moment I became a freelancer I also became an entrepreneur. – See more at Your professional translator: 10 worst mistakes I made as a freelancer.

[The American College of Emergency Physicians’2012 study] found that the error rate was significantly lower for professional interpreters than for ad hoc interpreters — 12 percent as opposed to 22 percent. And for professionals with more than 100 hours of training, errors dropped to 2 percent.   Oregon Has A Shortage of Certified Medical Interpreters.