IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages

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Spotlight Story IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic. Hosted as an internal IBM service since August 2008, n.Fluent offers a secure real-time translation tool that translates text in web pages, electronic documents, Sametime... Read full story Related News: Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season Computerworld offers tips to holiday shoppers looking to expose their personal data to online thieves. Malware enlists jailbroken iPhones for botnet A new worm is targeting jailbroken iPhones and adding them to a mobile botnet, according to a security memo from Intego. 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