Multiple tech sites also are pointing this week to a post from Chinese tech site MyDrivers ( Google translation) which quoted sources on Apple's supply chain in that country saying the new device will have a 7.85-inch screen and be the same thickness as the iPad 2.
Connectivity encompasses WiFi, HDMI output and a USB port and -- according to Google's translation -- a microSD card slot.
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We're going to have to enjoy their review for now via Google's translation service, which means that we may have missed some of the finer points that were garbled by machine translation.
The Google executive said online language translation was important because the company's philosophy was to provide access to "all the world's information".
They would argue that new translation tools from Google, Microsoft, and others herald a world in which a smartphone or Internet app instantly translates your words into the language of the listener on the other side of the call.
The availability of online translation services such as Google Translate has not put a dent in the demand for human services.
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Translation: Facebook and Google have become starting points on the Web.
Like many people, I use Google Translate as a starting point for translation, but don't necessarily trust that it will get everything right.
As for its auto-translation e-mail service, Google says this will be a jump forward for an increasingly globalized workforce.
Here's how Franz Och, a distinguished research scientist at Google, sees the present state and future of machine translation online.
By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be.
The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.
Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon).
Anyone can open a Chinese article using Google (GOOG) Translate or in their Chrome browser and read the translation of my article.
Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
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