Archive for the ‘indian languages’ Category

Will language support give the steroids for ecom growth in India?

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Today's article in Mint "Data indicates an e-commerce boom" talks about the good growth of ecom in India. The study was conducted by India's leading market research firm JuxtConsult. Some notable points from the article are,

Blackberry finally realizes the opportunity it missed, starts support for Hindi

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Today I got an alert on my Blackberry for updating the Blackberry Messenger. The Release Notes of the latest version (5.0.3.22) of its messenger mentions the introduction of Hindi language support.

Politicians in India still don’t take internet seriously

Monday, July 4th, 2011

I was reading "The IT Act of India needs to make provision for constituency websites" which talks about the lack of information of the 250,000 electoral constituencies India has (parliamentary/federal/centre, assembly/state and panchayat/local).

Column: Only Indian Language content can bring majority of Indians online

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Offline or online - life needs to be colorful. Photo location: Market in Antibes, France"][/caption] I was invited by Bangalore's leading newspaper Deccan Herald to write about the current status, successes, failures of Indian languages on the internet. Yesterday (June 29, 2011) it was published with the ...

Usage of internet highest in North India, Hindi content being the reason

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Today's Mint newspaper carried a very interesting report (Indicus Analytics) about the media consumption across India. The report talks about the three mediums - Newspaper, TV, Internet, Radio across various Socio Economic Classes (SEC categories) in India.