iTunes Oz on Hold
The much-anticipated launch of iTunes Australia is on hold due to, who else, a record company. Or, more specifically, a record company’s lawyers. According to the Courier-Mail: A source said yesterday...
View ArticleiTunes: 19 Countries and Counting
While I’ve been waiting for the iTunes Australia site to launch (it was held up recently) I realize that I missed the launch of Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. There are now a total of 19 iTunes...
View ArticleApple iTunes Japan Planned for August
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. The post Apple iTunes...
View ArticleApple iTunes Sells 50M Songs in Europe
Apple’s globalization of iTunes appears to be moving right along. According to the press release: “iTunes Music Stores were launched in the UK, France and Germany in June 2004, and now operate in 17...
View ArticleThe New iTunes Demotes its Global Gateway
I just upgraded from iTunes 4 to iTunes 5 and, wouldn’t you know it, Apple changed the global navigation system. Instead of placing the link to the “global gaeway” in the upper left corner of the music...
View ArticleiTunes Oz Goes Live
The Apple iTunes Australia store is now live. That brings Apple to a total of 21 iTunes stores. Anyone care to guess how long before a New Zealand iTunes store launches? The post iTunes Oz Goes Live...
View ArticlePredicting 2006: From eBay to .EU
2006 is a few days away and I can’t resist looking into my crystal ball to see what the year holds for all of us in the Web globalization industry. But before reading my take on the year ahead, let’s...
View ArticleIdiom Summit Highlights: Momentum and More Acronyms
Here are some thoughts from the past two days of the Idiom User Summit, in no particular order: - There was a lot of buzz around machine translation (MT). Both Systran and Language Weaver are here and...
View ArticleThe Best Global Web Sites (and why)
What separates good global Web sites from great global Web sites? Is it just the number of languages a Web site supports? Certainly languages are essential. Although every Web site is global by nature,...
View ArticleThe Next Generation of Google Asia
PC World writes that Google is testing new home page designs for Taiwan and Hong. This comes on the heals of Google’s new Korean home page. The company is focusing on those markets where it currently...
View ArticleThe Localization of iPhone
So I gave in to my inner geek and purchased an iPhone. One of the things I first noticed (and love) about the Web browser is the .com button on the keypad, shown here. Of course, this little shortcut...
View ArticleApple iPhone localization favors .com over country codes
The Apple iPhone goes on sale today in the UK and Germany. Awhile back I wondered how Apple would localize its Web keypad, which features the .com button to accelerate the input of URLs. I own an...
View ArticleMost popular posts of 2007
I’ve had Google Analytics installed on this site for some time now, which makes it a great resource for tracking the most popular posts of the year. So here are the top 10 posts of 2007 based on...
View ArticleWeb sites go black in China
If you visit the .com pages of Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Apple, and Amazon, you’ll see the usual bursts of color and promotional elements — that is, business as usual. But if you visit the Chinese home...
View ArticleApple iPhone 3G illustrates the value of a global design template
Apple today announced the iPhone 3G — a tri-band phone that will operate in most countries around the world. So it’s no surprise that Apple wants to sell the iPhone in as many of these countries as...
View ArticleLiving in iPhone upgrade limbo
Apple seems to have made a mess of its new iPhone rollout. I have the old iPhone and tried to upgrade this morning. Apparently I’m one of many thousands of people (or more) who have received nothing...
View ArticleThe iPhone App localization opportunity
So after a slow start upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 OS on Friday, I’ve since had a chance to review a number of the apps and have been very impressed so far (though a few did cause the iPhone to crash)....
View ArticleAn iPhone game that I still haven’t won
I’m not very patient with games. Which is probably why I’m not very good. My brother has concocted a tile puzzle game for the iPhone, shown below, that I still haven’t figured out — even at the...
View ArticleThe Kindle forces the question: Is it bookworthy?
It doesn’t have backlighting. It doesn’t natively support PDFs. And it’s not cheap. And yet I still ended up getting the Kindle. It’s thinner than I expected and I really get a kick of how it never is...
View ArticleIs this the next language icon?
Does this icon say “language” to you? It doesn’t to me. But the OMC design studio feels so strongly about it that it has launched a web site to promote this icon as a global standard. I applaud the...
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