IBM Gives Feds $45M in Translation Tech

April 2, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology that the Pentagon had been testing for possible purchase.

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