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September 2003 |
| Symbio
Expands Labs in Asia The Symbio Group has announced the expansion of two of its labs in Asia. Symbio has doubled the capacity of its Beijing lab and has added 50% new space to its existing Nanking East Lab in Taipei. The expanded lab capacity was required to meet the rapid increase of personnel in both of these locations. Symbio's Taipei lab has increased its headcount by 30% in the first half of this year. The additional space and personnel strengthens Symbio's ability to meet growing client demand for technically superior, cost- effective outsourcing services in software development, testing, and globalisation. The expansion of these labs increases Symbio's capacity for providing long-term dedicated development facilities and personnel for large international companies such as IBM. The additional space in Taipei includes two new dedicated lab areas, bringing the total to five. In Beijing, the additional space doubles the number of dedicated lab space to six facilities. "Multi-year contracts are driving this expansion," said Richard Le, Symbio's President and COO. "Our labs in China and Taiwan are rapidly expanding as companies move their development, globalization and testing work to Asia due to the clear cost and quality benefits." Announcing Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 - The Visual Localisation Solution Alchemy Software Development Limited, a leading translation tools provider, has announced a major upgrade for Alchemy CATALYST, its visual localisation environment which will be available to clients in September. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 is the most significant upgrade to their award winning and industry leading Alchemy CATALYST product line. Combining sophisticated visual environments for all of the most popular development platforms, database and XML/XLIFF technologies, it ensures that localisation projects take less time to complete, quality will be improved, Engineering and QA cycle times will shorten and the overall cost of localisation will be reduced. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 offers a preferred-pricing discount structure for orders placed before September 18th, 2003. Pricing is dependent on configuration. Customers will be able to purchase at significantly discounted rates for their Developers, Localisers and Translators. SDL Provides Solutions for Call Center Industry SDL International has added translation services and technology solutions targeted specifically to the call center and e-support industry. The solutions enable a call center to make its content linguistically and culturally appropriate in target markets throughout the world. In the translation process, the initial support content is translated using SDL's in-country human translation resources and SDL's translation memory and management tools. Once this is completed and implemented, SDLWorkFlow, which is an enterprise-level, Web-based translation workflow system, can be deployed to manage continual updates to this content. ArchiText Successfully Localise Click to Meet Express ArchiText Inc, a leading provider of translation, software localisation, globalisation, and content development services, announced today the successful completion of a localisation project with First Virtual Communications (Nasdaq: FVCXD), a premier provider of rich media web conferencing and communications solutions. ArchiText translated Click to Meet(tm) Express into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Click to Meet(tm) Express is a multipoint audio, video, and data collaboration tool for IP networks. Because the application works in demanding environments such as enterprise, government, and service-provider applications, ArchiText also performed extensive linguistic software testing on the localised versions. First Virtual Communications' Director of Program Management, Moshe Kogos, said, "ArchiText was able to take a difficult project and turn it around in a very tight schedule. The pain we experienced with other localisation companies was completely alleviated by ArchiText's expertise and professionalism. They are now First Virtual Communications' first choice for all future localisation work." Network Version Released by PROMT PROMT, a provider of machine translation technologies, has released its network translation solution @promt NET Professional which permits companies to communicate with their partners, customers and employees aroudn the world. The solution employs client-server architecture and is part of the @promt translation software family which is based on the PROMT XT (eXcellent Translation, XT) machine translation technology. The network solution provides translation for English to/from Spanish, English to/from German, English to/from Russian, French to/from Russian, and German to/from Russian. |