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22nd March 2006, 11:21 PM
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/22spec1.htm
Here are some highlights
There are over 300 million Hindi newspaper readers compared to only 60-70 million in English, not to talk about the large readership in other Indian languages.
A study by Delhi-based Juxtconultant - a research company-shows that over 44 per cent of the existing Internet users preferred Hindi as an alternative to English on the Internet, while a substantial 25 per cent wanted it in southern languages.
Just a few months ago, HCL Infosystems decided to preload its entire range of PCs with software developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in three languages - Tamil, Hindi and Telugu.
Here is the list of Indian Portals turning language savy.
MSN.co.in - will be launched in both Hindi as well as Tamil by end April.
http://Webdunia.com - 200 million page hits a month (which also includes its other language portals like Tamil, and Malaylam)
http://Jeevansathi.com launches Hindi Matrimonial portal.
http://sify.com/hindi/
Here are some highlights
There are over 300 million Hindi newspaper readers compared to only 60-70 million in English, not to talk about the large readership in other Indian languages.
A study by Delhi-based Juxtconultant - a research company-shows that over 44 per cent of the existing Internet users preferred Hindi as an alternative to English on the Internet, while a substantial 25 per cent wanted it in southern languages.
Just a few months ago, HCL Infosystems decided to preload its entire range of PCs with software developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in three languages - Tamil, Hindi and Telugu.
Here is the list of Indian Portals turning language savy.
MSN.co.in - will be launched in both Hindi as well as Tamil by end April.
http://Webdunia.com - 200 million page hits a month (which also includes its other language portals like Tamil, and Malaylam)
http://Jeevansathi.com launches Hindi Matrimonial portal.
http://sify.com/hindi/