Happy New Year 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

"Jeremiah Laments the Devastation of Jerusalem" by Rembrandt. (1630. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.)

My bet for 201o:
1. Cloud Computing
2. Virtualization
3. Business Intelligence (also for SMEs)

Want to know more about Machine Translation?

Very interesting Dotsub video: Localization and Translation Thailand 2009 Day 2 Beyond Machine Translation: Collaboration, Integration, Quality, Change and Jobs - Dion Wiggins, CEO, Asia Online
How come the Machine Translation industry, failing consistently during 50 years, still survives: because demand is there, and growing exponentially every day.

We should not be afraid of Machine Translation: it is what it is for. Human translation can only reach a fraction of what needs to be translated.

Not that I agree with the fact that if you need translation, MT + Post editing will do the trick:
If you need quality, please oh please, trust professional translators!