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Sony Enters Video Game Machine Market 10/28/93 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1993 OCT 28 (NB) -- Sony is jumping into the video game machine market jointly with its subsidiary Sony Music Entertainment […]

Firm Offers "Internationalization" Of Software Programs 09/03/92 DALLAS, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1992 SEP 3 (NB) -- Software developers can make more money if their programs are available in languages other than […]

New For Networks: European Language Versions Of 10Net 07/15/92 ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1992 JUL 15 (NB) -- Sitka Corp. is trying to take better care of its international customers and […]

Sprint To Offer Language Translation Services 07/07/92 WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1992 JUL 7 (NB) -- Sprint has decided to follow AT&T into the business of offering on-phone language translation services. […]

****Apple Macintosh To Offer Worldwide Language Support 05/11/92 CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1992 MAY 11 (NB) -- In an effort to assist international program designers working in languages other than English, […]

New For PC In UK: Wordperfect 5.1 Hebrew Module 05/01/92 ADDLESTONE, SURREY, ENGLAND, 1992 MAY 1 (NB) -- Wordperfect U.K. has begun shipping a Hebrew language module for Wordperfect 5.1. […]

Artisoft To Offer LANtastic In Several Languages 03/20/92 TUCSON, ARIZONA, U.S.A., 1992 MAR 20 (NB) -- Continuing a move which originated in Tokyo recently, Artisoft has announced that it will […]

Japan: KDD Starts Free News Information Service 02/24/92 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1992 FEB 24 (NB) -- Japan's former international telecom monopoly KDD says it has started a free news service for […]

Japan: KDD Starts Free News Information Service 02/20/92 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1992 FEB 20 (NB) -- Japan's former international telecommunications monopoly, KDD, says it has started a free news service for […]

UK: Wordperfect Intros International Range Of Software 11/21/91 ADDLESTONE, SURREY, ENGLAND, 1991 NOV 21 (NB) -- Wordperfect Corporation has announced that it has expanded its international division -- located in […]

Japan: PC-Based Language Translation System 10/08/91 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1991 OCT 8 (NB) -- Tokyo-based Nova has developed an English to Japanese language translation system for personal computers. Nova's translation system […]

UNIX INDIAN VERSION FROM AT&T USL 08/29/91 BANGALORE, INDIA, 1991 AUG 29 (NB) -- In its drive to make Unix a truly open system, AT&T Unix System Laboratories has divulged […]

MS WORD FOREIGN LANGUAGE VERSIONS DOING WELL 08/23/91 REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1991 AUG 23 (NB) -- Microsoft Corporation has announced that several international organizations have standardized on Microsoft Word, a […]

NEW FOR PCS: Chinese Version Of Windows 08/19/91 REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1991 AUG 19 (NB) -- Microsoft has announced the release of a Chinese version of Windows 3.0, bringing to […]

INTERNATIONAL VERSIONS OF SYSTEM 7 TO BE RELEASED 08/09/91 CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1991 AUG 9 (NB) -- System 7.0 in September is going to become worldwide. Apple Computer intends to […]

NEW FOR PCS: Windows OCR Reads French, German 07/29/91 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUL 29 (NB) -- Ocron has announced that the new version of its optical character recognition […]

MICROSOFT PREANNOUNCES NEW CYRILLICS PACKAGES 07/03/91 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1991 JUL 3 (NB) -- Microsoft announced plans to release several new localised packages for the Soviet market. The packages -- Windows […]

MICROSOFT RELEASES JAPANESE MS-DOS 5.0 06/24/91 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1991 JUN 24 (NB) -- The Japanese office of Microsoft has started supplying a Japanese language version of MS-DOS version 5.0. This […]

NEW CHINA COPYRIGHT LAW PROMPTS INTRO OF DBASE IN CHINESE 06/19/91 TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUN 19 (NB) -- Ashton-Tate (AT) has introduced Dbase IV 1.1 in the Chinese language […]

****PC MAGAZINE FINALLY RELEASED IN SOVIET UNION 06/19/91 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1991 JUN 19 (NB) -- The first issue of a local language edition of PC Magazine has been formally launched […]

NEW FOR PCS: French Language Privavera Project Planner 4.1 06/17/91 BALA CYNWYD, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUN 17 (NB) -- Primavera Systems is now shipping a French language version of its […]

FIFTH GENERATION SYSTEMS OPENS IN U.K. 06/03/91 LONDON, ENGLAND, 1991 JUN 3 (NB) -- Fifth Generation Systems has announced plans to set up its European headquarters in the U.K.. The […]

NEW FOR PCS: Danish Thesaurus 05/06/91 MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., 1991 MAY 6 (NB) -- Proximity Technology has expanded its list of original equipment manufacturing (OEM) products with the […]

APPLE EXPANDS DISTRIBUTION OF JAPANESE PRODUCTS 04/24/91 CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1991 APR 24 -- The Apple USA division of Apple Computer has expanded the distribution of its complete line of […]

****COMTEK: CYRILLIC WORDSTAR FOR RUSSIA 04/16/91 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1991 APR 16 (NB) -- WordStar is being refashioned to make a comeback in the Soviet Union - this time the package […]

****RUSSIAN APPLE SALES TO START THIS FALL 03/04/91 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1991 MAR 4 (NB) -- Apple computers will not go on sale in the Soviet Union until a Russian operating […]

ESTONIAN WORDPERFECT DUE 02/01/91 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1991 FEB 1 (NB) -- A joint venture called Baltic Computer Systems (BCS) is to start making an Estonian version of WordPerfect word processor. […]

IBM AND SEVEN COLLEGES IN MULTIMEDIA PARTNERSHIP 01/14/91 WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1991 JAN 14 (NB) -- IBM has announced that it will donate $2 million to fund the […]

IBM AND SEVEN COLLEGES IN MULTIMEDIA PARTNERSHIP 01/14/91 WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1991 JAN 14 (NB) -- IBM has announced that it will donate $2 million to fund the […]

TOKYO DATA SHOW: COLOR LAPTOPS ON THE INCREASE TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 OCT 29 (NB) -- Color laptop computers, gaining momentum in the personal computer market here in Japan, were represented […]

UK: TETRA UNVEILS SPANISH/PORTUGUESE VERSIONS OF SOFTWARE MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1990 OCT 29 (NB) -- Tetra has announced it is working on converting its Tetra 2000 and Chameleon business software […]

UK: Volkswriter Slashes Dictionary Prices GOSPORT, HANTS, ENGLAND, 1990 SEP 14 (NB) -- Volkswriter, the European word processing systems specialist, has announced it is cutting the price of its Collins […]

ELECTRONIC ENGLISH-PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY FOR JAPAN TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 AUG 28 (NB) -- For Japanese people who are not used to English pronunciation, help will come in the form of electronic […]

ASHTON-TATE SHIPS UPDATED DBASE IV IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1990 AUG 1 (NB) -- Ashton-Tate is shipping dBASE IV version 1.1 in German and French to coincide with […]

HONG KONG DISTANT OPERATOR SERVICE EXTENDED TO INDONESIA WANCHAI, HONG KONG, 1990 JUL 3 (NB) -- Hong Kong Telephone Company has added Indonesia to the list of countries connected to […]

INDIAN SOFTWARE HOUSE UNVEILS MULTI-LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSOR SINGAPORE, SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1990 JUN 15 (NB) -- India-based software house Ivy Systems chose Macworld Asia 90 in Singapore to introduce a multi-language […]

HP INTROS MULTIPLE ASIAN LANGUAGE KEYBOARD SUPPORT ADMIRALTY, HONG KONG, 1990 MAY 22 (NB) -- Hewlett-Packard (HP) has introduced Asian-language keyboard support for the HP 700/X family of X Window […]

ENGLISH-TO-AFRIKAANS TRANSLATING COMPUTER JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 1989 AUG 12 (NB) -- A computer capable of translating natural language is under development by the Human Sciences Research Council, according to a […]

MULTIMEDIA JAPANESE INSTRUCTION SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 AUG 11 (NB) -- The best way to learn Japanese is to immerse oneself in its culture, but the second best way […]

MULTILINGUAL LAN WEYBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 1989 JUL 07 -- DSC Nestar has announced a multilingual option on its Nexos Local Area Network (LAN) software. Each individual user accessing under the Nexos […]

DATABASE RETRIEVAL BREAKTHROUGH TOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 JUN 29 (NB) -- NEC has developed software which will enable the development of a database retrieval system that responds to the keyboard input […]

COMPUTER LINGUISTICS DEBUT STUTTGART, WEST GERMANY, 1989 JUL 21 (NB) -- The art of computer- assisted translation (CAT) is currently being developed in several countries around the world. Now the […]

INDIATALK FOR MACINTOSH NEW DELHI, INDIA, 1989 JUN 29 (NB) -- Ivy Systems, based in India, develops Asian-language software for the Macintosh. It has developed language interface systems and typefaces […]

CHINESE MAC AT MACWORLD ASIA SINGAPORE, S.E. ASIA, 1989 JUN 29 (NB) -- Apple Computer International and Aldus Corporation today jointly announced a complete desktop publishing system for the Chinese-language […]