News trickled out this month that Bing Translator had gained Thai support, meaning that users can translate to and from the language in IE8's Accelerator, with the Microsoft Translator widget ...

Facebook users have a new option for reading foreign fan pages. Through Microsoft’s Bing Translator technology, Facebook users will be able to click a link to translate Facebook pages not written in ...

Bing Translator may support 15 languages now, but it still has a long way to go. Although Yahoo Babel Fish supports only 13 languages, Google Translate has 42 languages under its belt.

Bing as a developer platform is interesting. But it's the back-end services powering Bing that are a key part of Microsoft's mission to reposition itself as a devices and services company.

Lingual brings voice translation to the iPhone 4S by way of the Bing translate API.