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Whitman: HP Decision on webOS Coming Within Two Weeks

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 30, 2011 at 4:25 am PT

In an interview with a French newspaper, HP’s CEO says a final decision on what to do with the webOS software business will come before Christmas.

Siri, Google Translate Make Good Companions on Streets of Taipei

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 17, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried taps the power of Apple and Google to navigate the sights and markets of Taiwan.

Google Translate Can Now Say “Take That, Siri” in 14 Languages

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 13, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

The company’s Android app, which began testing speech-to-speech translations in English and Spanish in January, now supports a bunch more languages.

Google Not Killing Translate API After All, Will Develop Paid Version

Ina Fried in News on June 3, 2011 at 3:05 pm PT

Google said on Friday that, following an outcry from users, it will develop a paid version of its translation tool for outside services to use, instead of killing third-party access entirely.

Google Puts “Se Habla Espanol” Sign on Android

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 12, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

The search giant is adding an “experimental feature” to Google Translate that does on-the-fly audio translations between Spanish and English. It is also making other tweaks to the interface of the Android application.

Here’s Hoping Google “Speech-to-Speech” Translation Not as Hilariously Inaccurate as Google Voice Translation

John Paczkowski in News on February 8, 2010 at 7:43 am PT

Google has built up quite a business scanning the written word for contextual advertising opportunities. Now it hopes to do the same for the spoken word as well. The company is reportedly developing a real-time translation technology for our phones.

Almost Famous Update: Now-Out-of-Beta Brizzly Hires Facebooker and Translates Tweets

Voices, Intern, All Things Digital in News on November 20, 2009 at 8:00 am PT

Brizzly, the Web-based Twitter client from Thing Labs, covered in Almost Famous two weeks ago, begins public beta today. In addition to opening its “expanded” Twitter interface to the world at large, the start-up is offering an on-the-fly translation tool for foreign tweets. And it has hired former FriendFeeder and current Facebooker Ben Darnell.