Microsoft Silverlight Ready For Olympics Closeup

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb

Microsoft’s Silverlight technology will get two big doses of exposure during the month of August, as the technology delivering online multimedia for both the Beijing Olympics and the Democratic National Convention later this month in Denver.

Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft’s attempt to trump Adobe’s Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced display and interactive functionality, as well as superior tooling support.

When the Olympic games kick off on Aug. 8, the Silverlight-powered NBCOlympics.com Website on MSN will go live with event coverage and features that go beyond the typical Web video experience, such as multiple camera angles, rewind, and picture-in-picture, according to Eric Schmidt, director of media and advertising evangelism at Microsoft.

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AuctionACCESS.com Now Serves Dealers In Three Languages

– AutoTec, the developer of AuctionACCESS, rolls out its multi-lingual website to serve an ever-growing international market of used vehicle buyers and sellers. –

/24-7PressRelease/ – BIRMINGHAM, AL, July 28, 2008 – AutoTec, the developer of AuctionACCESS, announced today the launch of a tri-lingual AuctionACCESS.com. The website, including the myACCESS online account management tool, is now available in English, French, and Spanish.

“We’re seeing more and more dealers using myACCESS to manage their dealer information,” says Chuck Redden, president of AutoTec.” We felt that if your primary language is French, you should be able to manage your membership in French.”

Creating a multi-lingual website involved more than merely translating the existing English text. “Support for internationalization (i18n) was added to AutoTec’s public websites with components from the widely used Apache Struts framework,” says Josh Hensley, software engineer and user interface architect for AuctionACCESS.com. “This lets visitors perform real-time switching between languages with a single click of the mouse. It also makes it easier for us to support new languages in the future by simply plugging in new resource files. We don’t have to maintain a separate copy of the website for each language.”

AuctionACCESS.com Now Serves Dealers In Three Languages