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In the fall of 2013, NCTA members attended a unique workshop that led them through the challenges of localizing videogames. BY PAUL LAMBERT On June 22, 2013, the NCTA hosted a workshop on videogame localization in downtown San Francisco, and…
In the absence of a predetermined agenda, participants create their own event, and a learning experience that continues beyond the conference. BY RAFFAELLA BUSCHIAZZO It’s April 27, we are in one of the spacious conference rooms on the salesforce.com premises in…
By Anna Schlegel How do transnational companies maintain their brand integrity across the multiple localizations of their Internet presence? A case study from VeriSign. To put the globalization challenge for VeriSign’s website in perspective, it is first necessary to understand…
By Farah Arjang On February 24th, four professional translators from the localization industry gathered at the Monterey Institute of International Studies to talk about their experiences in the localization industry. This session was one of the many in the roundtable…
By Shweta Sathe The “Northern” in Northern California Translators Association took on a special meaning when the Triple Certification seminar came to Chico in June. Among a few other NCTA members, Shweta Sathe attended these three days of intensive workshops,…
Look for technical words like host, cookie, or benchmarking in an English-Romanian dictionary and you’ll have a hard time finding a one-word equivalent. Fortunately, there are various approaches toward a solution.