http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060214/uktu013.html?.v=48 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0...
OR YEHUDA, Israel, February 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd., the leading provider of single-click translation and information access software, and Wikipedia the free-content, user edited encyclopedia, today announced the launch of the Wikipedia as part of Babylon's solution.
[...]
"Our collaboration with Wikipedia is the first of its kind for Babylon". said Alon Carmeli, VP Sales and Marketing, Babylon Ltd.
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
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One thing I was worried about is that Babylon contained spyware for some time. However, it turns out that they already removed it in 2002 to appeal to a professional audience. Anyone worried that Babylon contains spyware should read this:
http://www.babylon.com/eng/display.php?id=87&tree=7&level=3&show...
Otherwise, it's a fairly cool product, since it uses OCR to identify words you click on, so you can even translate stuff from images. I used it all the time when I was still on Windows.
Erik
"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote in message news:43F397AE.70604@gmx.de...
One thing I was worried about is that Babylon contained spyware for some time. However, it turns out that they already removed it in 2002 to appeal to a professional audience. Anyone worried that Babylon contains spyware should read this:
http://www.babylon.com/eng/display.php?id=87&tree=7&level=3&show...
Erm...
I just love the way a company whose entire reason for being is to translate stuff fails to include an English translation: the link at the top of that page where it says "this is also available in English" simply returns to the German copy.
Actually, clicking around that website, I cannot in the short time available find **any** links between the various language versions of what would appear to be the same press releases: they don't even have the same date. It would appear that the Wikipedia press release is only available in German.
Oops much?
Hoi, I do not know if it is a press release, it seems to be much more of a marketing thingie.. There has been a similar e-mail going around in the Dutch language to Babylon customers..
It is a sad thing that there has been no communication over this while it has been well known by a fairly large group outside of the "organisation". This cat has been out of the bag for quite some time now. I think that this is something for our Miss Communication.. :)
Thanks, GerardM
On 2/16/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote in message news:43F397AE.70604@gmx.de...
One thing I was worried about is that Babylon contained spyware for some time. However, it turns out that they already removed it in 2002 to appeal to a professional audience. Anyone worried that Babylon contains spyware should read this:
http://www.babylon.com/eng/display.php?id=87&tree=7&level=3&show...
Erm...
I just love the way a company whose entire reason for being is to translate stuff fails to include an English translation: the link at the top of that page where it says "this is also available in English" simply returns to the German copy.
Actually, clicking around that website, I cannot in the short time available find **any** links between the various language versions of what would appear to be the same press releases: they don't even have the same date. It would appear that the Wikipedia press release is only available in German.
Oops much?
Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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David Gerard wrote:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060214/uktu013.html?.v=48 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0...
OR YEHUDA, Israel, February 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd., the leading provider of single-click translation and information access software, and Wikipedia the free-content, user edited encyclopedia, today announced the launch of the Wikipedia as part of Babylon's solution.
[...]
"Our collaboration with Wikipedia is the first of its kind for Babylon". said Alon Carmeli, VP Sales and Marketing, Babylon Ltd.
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
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