(Maidenhead, England) --- Online TV News and Recruitment Network, Silicon.com has completed the purchase of a full licence for SDL's Multilingual Content Management system, SDLWorkFlow. Combined with SDL's extensive localisation services, SDLWorkFlow will provide a complete, global solution to help maintain Silicon.com's highly dynamic website in French and German.

"Silicon.com has a large number of breaking and top news stories that will need rapid translations. Through the use of the SDLWorkFlow system, SDL will be able to deliver very high quality translations within the extremely tight time limits demanded by the publishing industry," said SDL International CEO, Mark Lancaster.

"The systems provided by SDL will play a key role as we roll out Silicon.com across multiple European countries," said Rob Lewis, Chief Executive, Silicon.com. "Our local news operations in Paris and Munich will be producing large amounts of content which will need translating at lightning speed into various languages. SDL is a natural Partner for us. It offers both speed and quality of service that is required for what will be Europe's first pan-European broadband business news network."

SDL's total globalization solution will enable Silicon.com to provide news simultaneously in different languages, allowing them to gain significant market share and providing them with seamless localisation services and decreased administrative costs.

SDLWorkFlow functionality includes:

• automatic detection of changes on the original site
• alert system that notifies members of the localisation process, and provides information on status as the project progresses
• use of "Translation Memory" software to prepare files automatically and ensure consistent re-use of previously translated content
• The system thus enables the production and maintenance of complex, multilingual web sites, reducing the users' multilingual systems development and 'time-to-market'. It also therefore offers substantial savings in cost and time for e-business development.
  

About Silicon.com

Published by NMTV, Silicon.com is the first Internet-based European TV news network for the IT professional. By delivering more than 40 channels of real-time personalised news content, analysis, debates and interviews in a combined text and video on demand format, Silicon.com provides a one-stop source of mission critical content for the IT professional and business decision makers. In the UK alone, Silicon.com has already amassed some 150,000 individually registered users, 73% of whom are IT or Business Decision Makers.

http://www.silicon.com

About NMTV

Established in June 1998, Network Multimedia Television (NMTV) is the first European media company dedicated to realising the convergence of Internet and television technologies. The company's headquarters, newsroom and Internet TV studios are in Chelsea, London.

NMTV is backed by Schroder Ventures, Amadeus, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Gilde and T-Venture (Deutsche Telekom).

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