Apple released a new version of their OS for iPads, iOS 4.2.1, on November 22, 2010. I had heard from others iOS 4.2.1 was going to support few Indian languages. We do see a reasonable amount of traffic coming from Apple devices (iPad, iPhone) to Oneindia. Many of our users were unhappy about not being […]
Indian Languages
Indian Language in print, internet, TV: Report
IAMAI & IMRB have released a report “Report on Vernacular Content: 2009“. I had conveyed my thoughts on this subject to IMRB for this report. Some of the highlights from this report are, Geographic Segments Top metros in terms of population: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkota, Chennai Other 4 metros: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad Small metros: Cities […]
Domain names in Indian languages to be released soon
Today’s Mint reports domain names in regional languages will be released soon. There has been a talk about this for a while now. It would be interesting to see how the usage of language domain names will pick up in India. ICANN has cleared India’s application for internationalized domain names (IDNs) in seven languages – […]
Localisation is the order of the day on the internet
We had written this article in April/May 2010 for the Pitch magazine. This article was published in July 2010 edition, got to read it only today. Reproducing the text version of that article here. Indian Language portals can help brands connect with locals India is a diverse country, languages are very much part of our […]
3G: What will make it tick in Rural India?
In continuation with my MobileMonday 3G post, there was a lot of talk about 3G will tick well in rural India. Reasons being, there will be many in non-Tier-1 cities who will want to make use of telemedicine. I hope it does become a reality by which the needy really get what they want. If […]