I’ve just taken delivery of my new computer – a £30 Raspberry Pi. Having owned lots of computers since my first one (a Sinclair Spectrum in 1982), this new toy is getting me excited again because it’s claimed to be something of a spiritual successor to my earliest machine. Not in terms of power; it’s several hundred times more powerful than Sinclair’s baby. Rather, I’m hoping it will represent a return to the values from those far-off days in which read more

(with thanks to Tom Hanks for the headline…)

It’s the era of the iPad. Touch and swipe gestures are turning up everywhere, and there’s no excuse any more for software that is complicated and unintuitive to use. Discuss.

The Mac came to save us from products like DOS and WordPerfect, which some of us are still old enough to remember. Now those were the days! Before the era of the standardised windowed interface, every software package you bought had a different interface read more

Producing good translations in Indian languages or Chinese is not straightforward. As well as the language element, there are other aspects to consider.

Culture

Do not assume that British speakers of Indian languages can produce a document that will be acceptable to an audience in India or Pakistan. Language communities diverge over time. A translator of Bengali living in Bangladesh will not write in the same manner as someone from a third generation family in the UK. If you are addressing an read more

How we keep your documents strictly confidential and secure.

If one considers that we deal with the translation of legal papers of all kinds, clinical trials documentation, software licences, inter-company contracts and agreements, corporate, personnel and marketing policy statements, it becomes very clear why confidentiality and information protection are absolutely paramount for our clients and, by implication, for us too.

Elsewhere, we look at the extensive and continuous measures we take to protect electronic documents. Here we deal with the equally essential read more