Microsoft Translator launches Language Labs – Contextual Thesaurus, Bookmarklet, and Universal Text Input

The Microsoft Translator team, which powers the translation service behind Bing, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and recently Facebook and other global services like eBay and Trip Advisor, recently launched a new portal called Language ... Read more »

Bing Translator to be integrated with eBay, Trip Advisor and more

A few weeks ago we told you about a new Facebook inline translation service powered by Bing Translator. Well it turns out there will be more websites joining the ranks of Facebook to integrate ... Read more »

Bing Translator now powers Facebook’s new inline translation service

Looks like Microsoft and Facebook’s relationship are getting closer and closer. Following reports that Facebook’s upcoming Timeline feature will be powered by Bing Maps, we learnt that Facebook is adding a new translation service ... Read more »

Microsoft Translator updated with new Widget and API enhancements for collaborative translation

With all the big news at D9 and E3 recently, it’s easy to let news like this slip by. Today, the Microsoft Translator team (which powers Bing Translator) posted on their blog a new ... Read more »

Microsoft Translator now supports Indonesian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese

Just saw a quick update on the official Microsoft Translator blog that they have added Indonesian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese support to their translation engine. This brings the total number of languages to 35. Here’s ... Read more »

Translator Widget v2

We just updated our Microsoft Translator widget to version 2, complete with the “Collaborative Translations”, which allows you to choose alternate translations and make suggestions.  We purposely choose to use the translator widget, instead ... Read more »

Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs

In amongst all the Windows Phone and IE9 goodness (and a distinct lack of Windows Live news), we had a chance at Mix10 this week to catch up with an old friend we’ve never ... Read more »

What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have ... Read more »

Microsoft/Bing translator now supports 30 languages

Seven new languages have been added to the translation service: ROM – Romanian NOR – Norwegian HUN – Hungarian SKY – Slovak SLO – Slovenian LTH – Lithuanian TRK – Turkish This brings the ... Read more »

Microsoft Translator – new mobile translator

Picturepan2 was digging around on MicrosoftTranslator.com and noticed a new URL, for www.microsofttranslator.com/m/, which takes a word or phrase and translates it on a mobile device.  We haven’t seen this before, although the Indic ... Read more »