Babylon 8 Leading the World of Languages

November 10th, 2009 EDINBURGH, Scotland, November 11 - Travel search site Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) is continuing its drive into international markets with the launch of its ancillary travel comparison services across all 24 of its top level domains, including the Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese Skyscanner sites. The hotel comparison tool allows users to search over 200,000 hotels to find the best deals and is now available in 20 languages.

November 1st, 2009 EDINBURGH - Skyscanner has completed its BRIC portfolio after launching several new domains, reflecting a move into these fast growing economies. The new BRIC domains are: Brazil - www.skyscanner.com.br ( www.skyscanner.com.br), Russia - www.skyscanner.ru ( www.skyscanner.ru), India - www.skyscanner.in ( www.skyscanner.in) and China - cn.skyscanner.com ( cn.skyscanner.com).

October 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Babylon (www.babylon.com) invites users to take part in its first video competition. The top five most convincing videos will WIN a NEW 32GB iPod Touch! Babylon LTD., the leading provider of single-click dictionary and translation software (www.babylon.com), invites all to create and upload a personal movie to YouTube in which the users tell, in their own native language, why they like Babylon.

July 28th, 2009 LAS VEGAS - FC2, Inc. has updated one of its services, FC2 Counter ( counter.fc2.com/ ) with more language options.

July 23rd, 2009 PRAGUE, Czech Republic - - Implementing the Language Oriented Programming Paradigm, JetBrains MPS Provides Unprecedented Freedom in Extending Programming Languages and Creating DSLs for Developing Real-Life Applications. PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- JetBrains(R), creators of intelligent and innovative productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have announced the 1.0 release of their new conceptual software development environment - Meta Programming System, or MPS.

July 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Babylon Ltd. (TASE: BBYL), the world leading provider of online dictionary (www.babylon.com) and translation solutions ( www.babylon.com), presents the new version of Babylon for Mac, now supporting both online and offline dictionaries.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that, as well as being able to view .tel domains in 11 languages on the web, customers can now also manage their .tel domains in those languages from today. With well over 200,000 .tel domains registered since General Availability on March 24th customers from all over the world have been benefitting from the .tel domain.

May 10th, 2009 FRANKFURT, Germany - Today, Schlafender Hase is proudly releasing the latest version of the Text Verification Tool. The patent protected Windows application compares manuscript against artwork files, independent of the text layout.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - .tel Information Now Available in 11 Languages Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain, today announced the launch of its multilingual website, providing .tel related information in 11 languages including: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Russian. "With over 145 registrars signed up to offer .tel domain names in 30 countries, we are pleased to provide a multilingual website to help people across the world better understand the power and innovation of .tel," says Benjamin Blumenthal, Telnic's Director of Marketing.

March 10th, 2009 MILTON KEYNES, England - K International has announced that it has signed a major contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the provision of secure language translation services in support of the British Armed Forces. The contract will begin on the 1st April 2009 and will run for a period of 4 years.

July 9th, 2009 UNESCO: U.S military inflicted considerable damage on Babylon PARIS — Experts for UNESCO say considerable damage was inflicted by the U.S. military in Iraq to one of the world's most important archaeological sites.

July 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Two Melbourne researchers have identified 30 "new" languages as the living languages in China, the most for any single country. La Trobe University graduate researcher Jamin Pelkey and supervisor David Bradley uncovered the languages in China.

October 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Some 196 Indian languages are endangered, according to a recent Unesco study, and a worried lot of linguists, scholars and policy-makers are meeting in a two-day international seminar here Thursday to discuss how to save these language. "According to the 'Unesco Atlas of the World's languages in Danger, 2009', India has around 196 endangered languages, among the highest in the world," said Kamalini Sengupta from Intach Intangible Heritage Division, which is organising the seminar.

July 9th, 2009 UNESCO: US damaged historic Iraqi site of BabylonPARIS — U.S. troops and contractors inflicted considerable damage on the historic Iraqi site of Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world' most important archaeological sites, experts for UNESCO said Thursday.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 15th Lok Sabha saw many of the newly-elected MPs take oath Monday in their mother tongue or languages of their choice, with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Sumitra Mahajan leading the way by doing so in Sanskrit. She was followed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Basudev Acharya taking oath in Bengali and Arjun Sethi of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in his Oriya.

May 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - If you speak two languages, then it would be easier for you to learn the nuances of a new foreign language than your monolingual counterparts, according to a study by Northwestern University researchers. And this bilingual advantage persists even when the new language being studied is completely different from the languages one already know.

May 29th, 2009 CIA seeks to broaden foreign language skillsWASHINGTON — The CIA is undertaking a five-year plan to boost the agency's fluency in foreign languages, Director Leon Panetta said Friday. Less than a third of CIA analysts and overseas spies are proficient in a foreign language and Panetta said he aims to raise foreign language proficiency inside the CIA to at least half of all analysts and intelligence operatives within the next five years.

October 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a largely Hindi and English-based education system in India, mother tongues are being wiped out and its is for the parents to step in to revive their language identity, experts said here Friday. Linguists say 196 Indian languages were presently on the endangered list.

April 16th, 2009 NEW YORK - A New York businessman achieved the record of all records, becoming the first person to simultaneously hold 100 Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records confirmed Wednesday evening that 54-year-old Ashrita Forman is holding 100 records that have never been bested.

July 9th, 2009 UNESCO: US seriously damaged historic BabylonBAGHDAD — U.S. troops and contractors in Iraq inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, experts for UNESCO said Thursday.