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iPhone pricing announced
So the iPhone 3G pricing has been announced by the SoftBank folks. The basic breakdown for the representative plan described on that page: Handset price: ¥23,040 for 8GB, ¥34,560 for 16GB (paid in ¥960...
View ArticleEt tu, Barack?
Yet another article on how computer technology will save us all from the tyranny of having humans in charge of the task of human communication. A BusinessWeek piece titled “White House Challenges...
View ArticleApple cuts off online retailers
As reported by Nikkei, ITmedia, and other sites, Apple Japan has halted online sales of its hardware via retailers like Yodobashi and Bic Camera. In Yodobashi’s case, as detailed on the company’s info...
View ArticlePoetry about town
A quick post to link to “The iPhone app that puts poetry at your fingertips.” Here’s what said application does for you: City Poems is the brainchild/retirement project of Victor Keegan, who was a...
View ArticleApple wants you to pirate manga
Earlier this month Japan saw some coverage of disturbing news for publishers hoping to market their books and magazines to readers using iPhones and the like. Here’s one article (in Japanese) on the...
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iPhone fixed
So the iOS 4 update solved the number one problem I had with my phone (an iPhone 3GS). In previous OS versions, if you had ever saved a photo to your photo roll (one attached to an email you received,...
View ArticleHow dare he dislike my gadget!
The bloggers and Twitter users and whatnot are up in arms about an affront to their 2010 sensibilities: Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation. Kotaku delivers the goods in an article that...
View ArticleOn chess and computers
A quick quote from “The Chess Master and the Computer” in the New York Review of Books: The AI crowd, too, was pleased with the result and the attention, but dismayed by the fact that Deep Blue was...
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The latest from the crowdsourcing gang!
When we get a lengthy translation job from a client with a tight deadline—a 30-page speech by a minister to be given the next day, for instance—we can’t have just one translator deal with the whole...
View ArticleThe machines don’t get it all, yet
Here’s an interesting piece on trends in and the future of machine translation: “How do scientists see the immediate future of translation automation?“ The general feeling among researchers is that...
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