Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take global software giant Microsoft  to court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the language they speak.
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The old bilingual switcheroo Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in Korea, after a court decision in a patent dispure raised the prospect of Office being taken off the shelves in the country.â¦
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Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, will kick off an international push on Monday with the launch of a Spanish version.The Spanish language home page will be the default page shown to Internet users accessing the site from a Spanish-speaking country. The change will be immediately obvious to the roughly 2.8 million Facebook members in Spain and Latin America but any user will be able to choose between the English or Spanish interface in their account settings.Versions in German and French are promised for the coming weeks, the Palo Alto, California, company said in a statement.To translate the site the company used its own social networking skills and turned to its users.A Facebook translation application was created that allowed users to submit their own translations while browsing the site. The translations were then approved by the community, which was about 1,500 people strong. The entire effort took about a month and ended up with phrases like &quot;dar un toque&quot; as the Spanish version of Facebook-speak &quot;poke.&quot;Facebook said it will soon&#160;open up the translation application to developers&#160;so that they can harness the power of the community to translate their own applications.
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LUXEMBOURG -- The war of words over Microsoft Corp.'s business practices continued at a Luxembourg court on Friday with the its opponents arguing that unless the company offers a version its operating system without Windows Media Player, Microsoft will extend its quasi-monopoly in the PC market over the digital media sector.
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SAN DIEGO Aug. 31, 2004 - Several doctors and a group supporting English as the nation&#39;s official language filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Clinton-era executive order requiring federally funded hospitals
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ProEnglish, a national organization that wants to make English the official language of US government operations, is suing the Department of Health and Human Services over a
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The suit, whose plaintiffs include San Franciisco and Los Angeles, is the latest in a string of similar actions brought against Microsoft across the country.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Many Chileans tortured during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet are rejecting a government offer of symbolic payments more than 30 years later, demanding substantial compensation instead and legal action against torturers.
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Business & money: Microsoft is at the centre of an embarrassing row over an attempt by a lobby firm strongly linked with the Seattle computer giant to rally opposition against rival Google's proposed acqusition of internet marketing firm DoubleClick.
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Insistence on an official language means complications for a diverse work force.
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Less than three months after Microsoft lost a landmark antitrust case in Europe, a Norwegian software company filed a new complaint Thursday, challenging the software giantâs bundling of its Web browser with its Windows operating system.
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Making a search campaign that's been successful in English work in Spanish can be more difficult than simply translating the same words.
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Composite applications require user interface work in native language, company says.
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Lukas Smith is sending a wakeup call to the internet providers and web hosters out there - get involved in the PHP community!   We do not seem to have any ISP's active inside the PHP community. This is kind of odd, considering that PHP seems to be driving the business of hosters quite a bit. Why have none of them decided that PHP is important enough for their business that its worthwhile to ensure that their interests are taken into account?   He makes the suggestion of passing along the suggestion to bosses/co-workers/anyone who'll listen about getting involved. Suggested places to start would be as a part of the testers group or even contributing to the migration guide.
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TechWeb - IBM, Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Panda Security are among those in Spain this week hammering out details of the anti-malware group.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. is trying to convince federal and state authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for the allegiance of personal computer users.
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Rich Zygler asks in one of his recent blog posts, if Microsoft purchasing a 240 million dollar chunk of Facebook is a good thing for the language it's written in - PHP.   Microsoft is buying a piece of Facebook. What do we all think this means for PHP since Facebook is one of the "web 2.0" leaders built on PHP? The way I see it, [there] are [six] options.   Among the possible outcomes he lists are things like Microsoft rewriting the site, Facebook continues as it is or (next to impossible) Microsoft sees the error of its ways and fully embraces open source.