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Bill Gates has been waxing lyrical about a device called the Tablet PC for so many years that it's become a running joke in the tech press. Finally last week, at the computer industry's big annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, the famous Tablet became more than just talk. Nine major manufacturers--including Toshiba, NEC and Compaq--unveiled Tablet PCs that they're about to bring to market. Each will sell for roughly the price of a laptop, and all will run Windows XP Tablet PC edition and a handwriting program called Journal. Microsoft promises both programs...
...figure is nearly 40%. And on the Internet, it's a Tower of Babel. Only 48% of the world's Web users are native English speakers, down from 77% in 1997. By the end of 2003, the figure will drop to 32%, according to the Aberdeen Group, a tech-research company in Boston...
...step in. By 2006 the industry is expected to reach $12 billion in revenues, according to Allied Business Intelligence, a research firm in Oyster Bay, N.Y. And many companies are logging growth rates upwards of 30% a year. The big drivers of the business are the Internet and info-tech services. Firms with work forces dispersed worldwide--Accenture, Cisco, Oracle--translate their certification and training materials, placing them on globally accessible "corporate university" websites. Buyers of software expect help sites and manuals in their language...
...multibillion-dollar opportunity," says Lionbridge CEO Rory Cowan, whose firm, based in Waltham, Mass., is growing at a 30% annual clip. IBM, he points out, runs tech-support websites for laptop users in 22 languages, and much of the translation is done by Lionbridge. The cost benefit to Big Blue: reduced staffing at call centers. "They're probably saving $20 million to $30 million a year," he says...
...like BGS also face a threat from upstart software firms that are providing clients with content-management tools to go it alone. Hewlett-Packard, for instance, licenses software from GlobalSight, based in San Jose, Calif., to manage translation for its hp.com websites in 72 countries. And for its multilingual tech-support sites itrc.hp.com) HP uses software from Uniscape, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. HP hires its own free-lance translators for both sites. It retains control of its "translation memory," the database of proprietary language that has already been translated. "Leaving it in the hands of a vendor...