GalaticGrub writes "Technology Review has an article about a startup that wants to build a calling out of crowd-sourcing the third world nation world. The company, called txteagle, seems to be hooked mainly in using local erudition to translate illumination into less common languages. The Finnish cell-phone company Nokia is a partner in the project, and CEO Nathan Eagle says that it provides a good example of a Western company that could benefit from txteagle workers. Eagle explains that Nokia is absorbed in 'software localization,' or translating its windows for llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new lexicon



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fresh languages,' he says. 'You're lucky to get a phone with a Swahili interface, but even that might be somebody's third language. Nokia would love to have phones for everyone's mother tongues, but it has no idea how to translate words like "address book" into all of these languages.'"

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