Rouen, France -- Apr 19, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- The lack of defense from linguists for Ajmal Naqshbandi, the Afghan interpreter beheaded by the Taliban on Easter Sunday after one month of captivity, has motivated Inttranews™, the leading news site for the language industry, to set up a News Alert service for interpreters and translators.
Trilingual alerts (in English, French and Spanish) are now sent to Inttranews™ subscribers and to all the professional interpreters' and translators' associations around the world, so that their members can be immediately informed of the plight of colleagues arrested, tried, imprisoned, tortured or assassinated simply for doing their job.
Using state-of-the-art search technology combined with language-specific search rules and in-house translators to edit the results, Inttranews™ publishes 24 reports each working day, enabling linguists to keep abreast of all the events and issues of interest or concern at a single glance. Each report consists of a short, relevant excerpt, to respect authors' and publishers' copyright, and includes an HTML link to drive traffic to the source site.
Thanks to the quality and scope of coverage provided by Inttranews™, the wire service is read each month by more than 45,000 linguists in over 90 countries, and has been syndicated by leading interpreters' and translators' institutions and associations around the world. Partners include the International Federation of Translators (FIT) and the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), both of which are recognized by UNESCO.
Syndication of Inttranews on third-party websites is free of charge, with automatic updates when new articles are published on the parent site. A complete selection of categories of language-related news is available, covering every area and form of interpretation and translation, from fundamental research to applied technology and emerging markets.
After three years of activity, Inttranews now has some 20,000 reports of keen interest for research and marketing purposes in its searchable on-line archives. For business, calls for tender worth more than €350 million were reported on the site in 2006 alone.
About Inttranews
Inttranews is one of the services designed and developed by HTT (High Technology Translators), a translation company established in Rouen, France, in 1987. The firm has been an approved supplier of translation services to the European Commission since 1994, and was one of the first companies to obtain ISO 9001:2000 certification in France in 2001. Inttranews is included in the scope of that certification.
HTT headed the multinational design team in charge of developing the multilingual Inttranet™ portal for professional interpreters and translators, launched in 2000. The Inttranet™ was included in the UNESCO Observatory for the Information Society in 2006. Further services developed by HTT for the portal include the multilingual terminology database Terminall™ (2003), and Inttranews™ (2004).
The latest development by HTT is the Exttranet™, a multilingual, multi-criteria Search and CV system for professional interpreters and translators that can be displayed on any website, computer, or mobile communication system in the appropriate language.
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The lack of defense from linguists for Ajmal Naqshbandi, the Afghan interpreter beheaded by the Taliban, has motivated Inttranews(tm) to set up a News Alert service for interpreters and translators.
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