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Norway-based Vivaldi Technologies has released a new version of its browser for Android, 5.2, with one of the new features being a Reading List where links for looking at later can be saved and synced across devices.

Freelancer releases its Q3 Fast 50, a quarterly index of the most sought-after skills - see the jobs which have shot up the scale this quarter and which have declined in demand.

DoTalk claims to break down barriers to communication, with the ability to rapidly translate chats in words and voice, in up to 90 different languages. It is available for iOS and Android smartphones and Internet-connected devices.

English as She Is Spoke is the title of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino which was intended as a Portuguese-English phrase book but became a source of unintended humour as the translations were often completely incoherent.

The Babel Fish was a creation of science fiction author Douglas Adams that could be placed in the ear enabling the user to understand anything said in any language. Smartphones and cloud computing are bringing a limited subset of that capability clsoe to reality.

Learning how to curse in a foreign language has never been easier, with the makers of the popular free DROID phone app, PottyMouth, releasing a new app which takes popular dirty words and phrases from eight different languages and translates them into English.

The latest stable release of Google Chrome includes automatic translation and improved privacy controls.

In his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, said that mobile was not the first platform for which Google developed any new application, and he staged impressive demonstrations of voice search, image search, and language translation combined with optical character recognition.

An internal IBM application that translates between English and 11 other languages embodies contributions from the company's 400,000 employees.