Economic liberalisation, privatisation of state-owned enterprises, reduced controls on foreign trade and investment: that’s what India has been doing since the early 1990s. This has served to accelerate the country’s growth, which has averaged more than 7% [...]

The Economist has recently published an article about K. David Harrison, of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Dr Harrison thinks that IT, which is usually considered an arch enemy of rare languages, may actually save them from extinction. He [...]

Last year NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile communications operator, developed an app to translate menus. They are now announcing they are testing a new phone whose main feature is to translate conversations in almost real-time using cloud technology. At the [...]