http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Adventures in Web globalization and all that it entails en-us jyunker@bytelevel.com 2005-07-27T12:15:31-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/07/27/itunes_japan_next_week.php According to this article, and a few others, Apple appears poised to launch its iTunes Japan store on August 4th. This will be the first Asian site for Apple, and a key market. Apple already has three retail stores in... 13115@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-27T12:15:31-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/07/13/pardon_my_french.php A group of French language teachers in Japan are suing the mayor of Tokyo for saying, "French is a failed international language because it cannot be used to count numbers." That's according to this article. If nothing else, the article... 13104@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-13T21:13:39-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/07/12/young_asians_study.php My colleagues at Future Tense have posted an entry on a recent Synovate study on young Asians. Here's a quote from the study: Head of Sales Yahoo! Hong Kong, Ivy Wong, said "The results of Young Asians show that teenagers... 13100@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-12T10:24:22-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/apple_itunes_japan_planned_for_august.php According to Engadget, the iTunes Music Store will indeed open in 2005 in Japan. That would make it a total of 20 iTunes country stores, with still plenty of room left to grow.... 13074@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-07T12:04:16-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/05/05/bravo.php The Corante NY blog points out that New York has launched a multilingual Web site to increase its percentage of international visitors.... 13059@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-05T10:17:50-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/02/02/whats_a_locale.php Michael Kaplan spells out four different locale defintions. Although the definitions are quite technical, they underscore the complexity of managing locales within software applications and Web sites.... 12985@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-02-02T17:42:30-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/02/02/the_lure_of_china.php David Scott Lewis has written another great article on the lure (and challenges) of China. And if you don't speak Chinese, don't worry. David recommends getting a job with the many upstarts now targeting Western firms that have ventured into... 12984@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-02-02T10:01:03-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/01/25/the_long_tail_in_india.php Chris Anderson is traveling through India and commenting on globalization along the way...... 12980@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-01-25T18:39:48-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/27/mcdonalds_china_web_site_hacked.php McDonald's China Web site was hacked, apparently by a person (or people) protesting the company's reference to Taiwan as a separate country. The Taiwan/China issue is bound to produce headaches for multinationals who want to offer local Web sites for... 12961@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-27T11:09:15-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/22/lionbridge_on_hiring_spree.php Globalization services vendor Lionbridge is on a hiring spree. It posted more than 20 job positions in December, gearing up for a big 2005.... 12956@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-22T10:50:30-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/20/sdl_wins_microsoft.php Globalization services and software vendor SDL announced today that it won a 3-year language services contract from Microsoft. Although Microsoft outsources work to nearly every major localization firm, this is still a very nice win for SDL.... 12954@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-20T12:11:58-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/15/mtv_goes_bicultural.php Corante's New York Blog reports that MTV is launching three Asian pop music channels targeting Indian, Korean and Chinese viewers in the United States.... 12951@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-15T10:32:51-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/06/international_copyright_issues.php Corante features a good interview on copyright issues; it touches on international harmonization.... 12942@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-06T15:11:18-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/03/ca_goes_global_with_sdl.php Localization services and software firm SDL announced an expanded contract with Computer Associates. SDL has been on a roll in 2004. Trados and Lionbridge should be concerned.... 12937@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-03T10:37:11-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2004/12/02/outsourcing_blog.php If you haven't seen it yet, Corante's new Outsourcing blog is worth a read. It features a solid group of expert contributors.... 12935@http://goingglobal.corante.com/ Blink › 2004-12-02T00:25:38-08:00