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

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

Tachyon Technologies‘ Quillpad has launched a commercial, license-based widget for websites. The launch follows 45 days after the Bangalore based company launched widgets for personal use. These widgets allow website ... Continue_Reading

On the heels of Google’s international launch of Friend Connect which boasted support for 47 languages including 9 Indian ones, Facebook has upgraded its own universal login interface to support ... Continue_Reading

Google has announced the international launch of Friend Connect, and the integration of 47 international languages, including the following Indic languages – Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil ... Continue_Reading

At the end of a riveting speech at the IAMAI Digital Marketing Conference yesterday, when asked by Google India MD Shailesh Rao about the 2-3 things he would like the ... Continue_Reading

Update: Rediff informs us that they haven’t abandoned Indic languages for email altogether – they intend to include Indian languages in the new user interface once some bugs have been ... Continue_Reading

Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has submitted a five point agenda to A Raja, the Communications and IT Minister, before the Budget is announced on July 6th. The industry body ... Continue_Reading