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Interactive Trends – Multilingual Websites

The phrase, "you need to speak your client's language" was coined many years ago and usually means that it's important to understand your client and to present ideas to them on their terms. In the past 20 years we've seen a revolution in the way the world does business and people across the globe connect. More and more we find that the colloquialism about speaking your client's language now means just what it says that you need to communicate to them in their language of choice.The obvious reaso...

Google and China – A Dysfunctional Marriage

Since making its search engine available to Chinese users in 2000 by translating it into the Chinese language, Google was faced with significant restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. As all internet communications going to and from China traverses routers owned by the Chinese government, politically sensitive queries were blocked from making it to Google's servers, the service was made slow and unreliable, and sometimes unavailable for extended periods of time as search queries were re...

China is Not Allowing Google to Launch Its Phones

Google has hold back the launch of its first and foremost mobile phones in China, a further sign of the widening outcome of its judgment to defy the Chinese government over cyber-attacks, cyber-security and Internet freedom. The firm said in a proclamation that it was pushing back the release of Google-muscle phones made by Samsung and Motorola that had been listed for Wednesday.Mobile giant China Unicom, which like other Chinese company giants has close ties to the China government, had been sl...
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