Internet Globalization News

Need to internationalize software for Mac 0S?

Outstanding Apple's official repository of Developer documentation about internationalizing software for Mac OS X.

via developer.apple.com

With over half of Macintosh computers being sold outside the United States and because Mac OS X makes it so easy, now is as good a time as any to jump into the international market.

Ten pieces of advice for doing business in China

Good insights overall, but one could also argue that these advices are very generic, and could be applied to any other country, like thinking your relationships in a strategic way, learning the local language, leveraging your current network, being patient with the "efficiency" of local players, et cetera.

via www.westlink.ca

By Hal Josephson, CEO, MediaSense and Director of Business Development for China Access 2010.

If you are going to develop and implement your China strategy, or continue your business efforts in China, here are a few suggested “best practices.”

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The Internationalization of Halloween - Just marketing?

What started as a global, almost spontaneous marketing campaign a few years ago is becoming an established party in some places. Although still mainly a marketing event outside of the US, Halloween could become something more real, but only if and when little kids get into it -- today, especially in Europe, Halloween is a teenager-to-mid-twenties party.

via www.businessweek.com

This is my family’s first Halloween in suburban USA (we moved here after four years living in Europe and Asia, prior to which we were in New York) and the one question everyone has for us is: “Did you celebrate Halloween in the other countries you lived in?”

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/punch/ / Creative Commons - Some rights reserved

ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet

The proposal would mean that domain names could be written in the languages such as Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi or Cyrillic and be understood natively by the machines that connect computers together over the web.

via www.icann.org

The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today's approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board.