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lion: Exit keyboard and mouse

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Exit keyboard and mouse. It is not yet the end for keyboard and mouse. But unrelated product announcements last week, suggest that it might be the beginning of the end for these electro-mechanical interfaces to computers and Internet access devices. Hewlett Packard has unveiled the revised editions of its TouchSmart PC, first launched last year. Meanwhile, touch as a device interface technology continues to evolve: On one hand ‘h...

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lion: And now a site-specific browser

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Thursday, June 19, 2008. And now a site-specific browser. A new breed of the browser, called a site-specific browser (a browser tailored to a single on-line application), is slowly evolving. A mainstream browser (like Firefox) is indifferent to the kind of web site being accessed. Whether the site is your vital email service Gmail or an ordinary web page, for the browser they are all the same. Besides these issues, keeping some applications opened alongside si...

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lion: Firefox 3 Web browser hopes for record downloads

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Firefox 3 Web browser hopes for record downloads. LOS ANGELES (Xinhua): Mozilla, an open-source community in which thousands of people, mostly volunteers, collectively develop free products, announced on Monday that it will launch a new version of the Firefox Web browser and hopes for record downloads. Firefox 3, scheduled to be launched today, features improvements in security, speed and design, according to Mozilla. Firefox is the No...

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lion: Altering biometric images enhances security

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Saturday, June 14, 2008. Altering biometric images enhances security. BOSTON: A trick reminiscent of a fun-house mirror might improve the security and privacy of the access-control technology that examines fingerprints, facial features or other personal characteristics. IBM's solution is to make biometric readers distort the image before it is scanned. For example, a face might be made to appear lumpy, or squished up around the eyes. When someone returned to t...

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lion: TCS strategy for e-governance

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Tuesday, June 10, 2008. TCS strategy for e-governance. NEW DELHI: India figures quite low in a global e-Governance ranking with a per capita IT spend of just $1.29, a new study says. Country’s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which has authored the study, said that New Delhi has to catalyse policy decisions to improve e-Governance. It advocated “a nationwide mandate to allocate a fixed percentage of the annual budget for e-Gover...

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lion: Move over '.com' and get ready for '.hotel' or '.sports'

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Friday, June 27, 2008. Move over '.com' and get ready for '.hotel' or '.sports'. London, June 27 (ANI): Come 2009, and almost any word will be able to replace ".com" in a Web page address - thanks to a decision made by the organization that manages the technical underpinnings of the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN). ICANN unanimously approved the new guidelines as weeklong meetings in Paris concluded. Dr Paul Twomey, chief ...

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lion: Firefox thrives, Netscape fades

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Firefox thrives, Netscape fades. Firefox, the open-source Web browser, has claimed that it crossed half a billion downloads worldwide last week. Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004 as an experiment within the Mozilla Project and the currently available free download is version 2.0.0.12 — a 5.7 MB tool. However, version 3 is already in the beta or testing stage and has incorporated some 1,300 changes. On Saturday AOL, which has ow...

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lion: Localization

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Saturday, June 7, 2008. Localization involves taking a product and making it linguistically and culturally appropriate to the target locale (country/region and language) where it will be used and sold". Localization Industry Standards Association. സാംസ്കരികമായും. लोकालिज़शन इंडस्ट्री स्तान्दर्ड्स असोसिएशन. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lion, read L10n. An experience sharing platform. For all the localization fanatics. लोकालिज़शन. Exit keyboard and mouse.

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lion: Your own ‘drive’ in Net ‘sky’

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A blog on localization efforts in Malayalam. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Your own ‘drive’ in Net ‘sky’. Users can upload and store their files in three folders. There is a generous limit of 50 MB for any one file. BANGALORE: If you have portable hard drives and large-capacity memory sticks that you lug on your travels, prepare to shed them now. Microsoft is offering free personal and secure storage on the Web of a whopping 5 gigabytes to users registered for its Windows Live services. This is arguably the l...