Harper Collins to launch bilingual mobile dictionaries

Harper Collins has signed a deal to launch bilingual mobile dictionaries, in an agreement with Interactive Rights Management, according to NMA.

"Users will be able to get translations from English, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

The first version of the product will be a downloadable application containing words and their translations, additional content will be available for download. Further developments will be added over the course of the next year with plans for an audio version, to allow users to hear the pronunciation of the word as well as it's spelling."

Other mobile translation services:

-- Java Phones Help Romance When Overseas - Mobile phone software company LingoPal has launched a series of applications for java-enabled mobile phones to help travellers communicate while in a foreign country.

-- Business Translator for cell phones - Player X and CNN Mobile release CNN Business Translator phrase guides for mobile phones on Orange in the UK.

-- Text Messaging Gets a Translator - A New York City startup called Transclick rolls out software that translates e-mail and text messages with just one click.

-- TOMP (Translation On Mobile Phones) - No registration nor additional software is required to access the TOMP service, and it will work on any phone that is subscribed to a UK network provider, even when roaming abroad.

-- Free phones aid tourists lost in translation - The Kyoto prefectural government will launch a project in December to lend 500 mobile phones with language-translation and road-navigation functions to foreign visitors.

-- English-Arabic translations via SMS - Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) today announced the launch of the new Tarjim service, which allows mobile users to receive translations between Arabic and English of words or phrases

-- SMS translator - A computerized SMS translation service called TransClick, provides quick and accurate translations between most major languages.

-- SMS translation service for travelers launched - The Dutch motoring organisation ANWB, and Van Dale, a prominent dictionary publisher, have launched an SMS-based service that translates between French, German, English, Spanish, and Dutch.

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