Internationalized Domain Names

The advent of Unicode started a new era in international computing. After that, Internationalized domain names seem to have a great potential for non-roman languages. Varun Aggarawal explains what internationalized domain names (IDNs) mean and what possibilities it has for Indian languages. [Read full story]

DTL mulls Hindi feed; launches local show with fashion designer Manish

Lifestyle channel Discovery Travel and Living (DTL) is weighing the options of launching a Hindi feed in addition to its existing English feed. [Read full story]

When Indian parampara becomes Pakistani wordspeak

Indian television serials are part of everyday life in Pakistan and slowly changing everyday vocabulary with words like 'parivar', 'prarthana' and 'parivartan' creeping in. [Read full story]

Hindi and Chinese may dethrone English

US economist David Rosen said the official languages of the two emerging markets, India and China, will soon be the most preferred language in the workplace in coming times. David was also quoted as saying,

"What I feel is that it is time the education planners should start focusing on basic education rather than going overboard on the Indian Institutes of Technology and IT. Otherwise a paradigm shift from agrarian arena to other sectors will result in people lining up the streets with begging bowls."

BigAdda Launches Multilingual Messaging ...

Reliance's social networking portal BigAdda has launched multiple messaging: users can now post scraps in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. [Read full story].