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Editorial and Advertising Systems IN OUR OVERVIEW of the show in our last issue, we noted some of the developments regarding editorial and advertising systems. They included the idea that […]

The annual U.S. newspaper industry get-together -- formerly called ANPA, but now dubbed Nexpo -- has been rather sedate of late as the excitement of new technology found its way […]

IBM competes with Dragon; L&H buys Kurzweil in leadership quest The Holy Grail of speech-recognition technology is a continuous, speaker-independent, unlimited-vocabulary engine that has natural-language understanding (i.e., one that understands […]

Trados's comprehensive MultiTerm terminology management tool is included in the Translator's Workbench, but it can also stand alone. It can manage up to 20 languages simultaneously, including non-Latin languages such […]

Trados recently released version 2.01 of its fastest-growing product, its interactive Translator's Workbench translation memory (TM) system. The Workbench, which is considered an industry standard, "learns," so to speak, from […]

Star is a leading international localizer with translation, multimedia and Web competencies. Transit is Star's translation memory system, and TermStar handles terminology management. Transit allows multiple, individual terminology databases residing […]

Trados WinAlign is an interactive alignment tool to prepare, for reuse, the translated text from previous projects. It examines source- and target-language texts to determine which sentence pairs belong together […]

A new development area for Trados is what the company refers to as "mining tools." This effort involves tying alignment technology into terminology technology so that users with huge amounts […]

Lionbridge Technologies refers to itself as "an old friend with a new name." It traces its roots back to the INK Group founded in 1980 in the Netherlands. In 1993 […]

At Seybold San Francisco in September, Chrystal Software, a Xerox company, showed Lingua, a new application for Chrystal's Astoria document-management system. Lingua streamlines the translation of documents that will be […]

Accent Software (Colorado Springs, CO) makes tools for quick and easy localization and translation, including the entry-level Locale (which the company spells with an @ instead of an a); the […]

At Seybold San Francisco in September, the news from old-timer Logos, which was founded in 1969, was that it has established its first full-service operation center. Delta International GmbH in […]

Belgium-based speech and language guru Lernout & Hauspie has been rapidly acquiring companies and technologies that are diverse but complementary. It now stands out for the innovative ways it is […]

Germany-based Trados GmbH acquired the S-Tagger technology developed by International Translation & Publishing of Ireland, where Trados also has an office (see below). Trados, a leading developer of translation memory […]

International Software Products (of the Netherlands), which provides localization services for European languages, has established a partnership with EnCompass Globalization (Kirkland, WA), which is a specialist in double-byte character sets, […]

Revival of LVT technology could result in low-cost proofing developments Dice America, which acquired the LVT division (formerly known as Light Valve Technology) from Kodak in February, recently introduced the […]

New firm, to be called Colorbus, has 15,000 installations, second to EFI Colorstar has agreed to acquire Colorbus in a merger of two suppliers of printer controllers. The combined unit, […]

CalliGrapher 5 is for hand-helds; ParaType fonts support Cyrillic ParaGraph PI Technology, a Silicon Graphics company, has upgraded its CalliGrapher handwriting-recognition software for hand-held computers. (The PI stands for Pen […]

Revival of LVT technology could result in low-cost proofing developments Dice America, which acquired the LVT division (formerly known as Light Valve Technology) from Kodak in February, recently introduced the […]

George Carvill has left Advanced Technical Solutions to join the Publishing Solutions group at Unisys as technical sales support manager. During his four-year stay at ATS, his duties included product […]

Torque Systems, 19 Heron St., San Francisco, CA 94103; phone (415) 252-5521, fax (415) 252-1521; […]

GammaGraphX, 400-2 Totten Pond Rd., Waltham, MA 02154; phone (781) 684-0730, fax (781) 684-0733; […]

T/R Systems, 1300 Oakbrook Dr., Norcross, GA 30093; phone (770) 448-9008, fax (770) 448-3202; […]

Colortrac, 12501 Prosperity Dr., Suite 455, Silver Spring, MA 20904-1689; phone (301) 625-9670 or (800) 505-4324, fax (301) 625-9720; […]

Dave deBronkart has been named product manager for personalization in Indigo's Strategic Applications Group. For the last nine years, he has been operating his own consulting business. Before that he […]

Larry Halleran and Dorothy Maroney Pults have joined ScenicSoft as director of marketing and director of technical services, respectively. The latter is a new position. Pults had been the manager […]

Harlequin is seeking a replacement for the Multimedia marketing post, but the Communications directorship was eliminated in the […]

After 17 years at Kodak, Burke McCarthy has joined ISDN firm Hermstedt as president of U.S. operations. At Kodak he had served as worldwide marketing director. Hermstedt Inc., founded in […]

At CalComp, two appointments will affect the production and global launch of the wide-format CrystalJet line (see p. 33). John E. Ross becomes senior VP of operations and print-head manufacturing […]

Toni Peri has left CText and been replaced as COO by Lynne Punnett. Larry Moore remains chairman and CEO. Punnett, who has been with CText since 1984, most recently was […]

Carol Bumbaca, a 12-year veteran at Xyvision, has been named the company's new VP of customer support, reporting to president and CEO Kevin Duffy. Her 32-person support department comprises consulting […]

Ken Newton, most recently president of Screen U.S.A., has been named VP, worldwide marketing, at A.B. Dick. Bill Pesch, who had been handling the job on an interim basis, will […]

System Integrators has announced the appointment of Mike Lee as executive VP of worldwide sales, a role he'll add to his existing responsibilities as managing director and president of European […]

U.S. Commisioner of Patents has proposed global processing network On June 25, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley announced that the Patent and Trademark Office will make available on the World […]

Sells 40-plus large-format 162Ad units; Avery Dennison develops new media Idanit Technologies Ltd. of Israel has been making strides with its fully automated, large-format 162Ad digital printer, formally introduced in […]