In 2008, a Chinese restaurant displayed a bilingual sign above its storefront to accommodate English-speaking patrons. To save a few pennies in creating the sign, someone working for the restaurant skipped use of a professional human translation. Instead, the restaurateur typed the restaurant name into a machine translation program, which quickly returned some English text that was printed and placed above the business storefront without review. Unfortunately, the translation utility was not working that day. Because of the misfortune, Internet users worldwide have seen photos of the restaurant sign displaying the supposed English translation, Translate server error. Public interest in machine translation is growing as the nature of business becomes increasingly international, translati...
Embattled entrepreneur Anthony Boldin, facing lawsuits involving two of his companies, says his AtomicPark.com online software business and his Voting Technologies International voting machine business are still viable, but that VTI is up for sale. Boldin is operating AtomicPark from its downtown headquarters with a handful of employees that remain, after he was unable to meet payroll obligations at both businesses.
NEW YORK - International Business Machine Corp. reported a small gain in third-quarter profits Monday, as increasing revenues in emerging markets such as Russia and China helped offset expenses from a pension lawsuit. For the three months ending Sept. 30, IBM earned $1.80 billion, or $1.06 per share, compared to $1.79 billion, or $1.02 a share, at the same time a year ago.
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