MSN India has launched a subsite in Hindi called Yuva targeting youngsters from tier 2 and tier 3 towns who are increasingly joining the online userbase. The subsite, powered by MSN’s ... Continue_Reading

This one has been late in arrival, but has the potential to change the way the Internet is accessed by the masses in India: a web browser with a ready ... Continue_Reading

The Panini Keypad is a Java-based mobile application by Noida-based Luna Ergonomics which supports 8 international and 11 Indian languages. What’s interesting is that it uses statistical predictive texting: by analysing a ... Continue_Reading

In October 2009, Rediff-funded Eterno Infotech, a Bangalore-based mobile company, decided to go global and has since partnered with Bangladesh-based Inforev and Vietnamese VAS provider Mobile Plus for its product ... Continue_Reading

Microsoft has updated its Indic Language Tool for web browsers and the offline desktop version but it very obviously is still in Beta or pre-release stage, though available to the ... Continue_Reading

It took well over three hours on a 256kbps connection for me to install Microsoft’s attempt at introducing its Indic language transliteration input tools to the Indian market. After the ... Continue_Reading

(by Diwaskar Chettri & Nikhil Pahwa) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expected to approve this week international domain names – or addresses- that can be written ... Continue_Reading

After launching a commercial transliteration widget for PC users, Tachyon Technologies owned Quillpad has now developed one for mobiles. The mobile application, created in association with handset manufacturers, will be ... Continue_Reading

Geodesic-owned Chandamama has stepped up its online presence by adding more language interfaces. The site can now be viewed in 5 Indian languages – Marathi (named Chandoba), Kannada ... Continue_Reading

India’s Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC) plans to release software tools for six Indic languages – Bangla, Konkani, Kashmiri, Manipuri, Santhali and Sindhi. With this release, C-DAC will ... Continue_Reading

Speaking at the IAMAI Conference on Mobile Content & Services, Dr. Nadeem Akhtar of the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) said that a new standard for sending SMS ... Continue_Reading

Google Docs, the online word processing and spreadsheet service from Google now offers translation of documents for 42 different languages. Such initiatives essentially help Google increase the amount of local language ... Continue_Reading