Local Language

Nimbus Announces Home Video Rental And Sales Foray With Showtime - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 12:03 PM PST

Nimbus Communications has officially launched its home video entertainment rental and sale business called Showtime. The stores, which distribute DVD, VCDs and Game CDs, are currently only Bombay centric with…

Webdunia Introduces Multi-lingual Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 14 May 2008 12:20 PM PST

Webdunia, the local languages portal from the Naidunia group, has launched ads in 9 languages. What the release doesn’t state is the kind of ads. Incase you are thinking of…

Google Launches Hindi Translation - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 May 2008 01:16 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched the Google Translate service for Hindi, which allows users to translate text from English to Hindi and Hindi to English. Here’s what Waiting For Godot…

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NDTV Launches Hindi Portal - NDTVkhabar.com - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 02 Apr 2008 04:38 AM PST

NDTV has launched a Hindi language portal - NDTVKhabar.com. The ABC of content (Astrology, Bollywood and Cricket) have been given due importance; There is news (national, international, business and sports.…

MyToday Introduces Local Language SMS With OneIndia; On Handsets And Languages - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 14 Mar 2008 03:04 AM PST

Rajesh Jain’s MyToday, the SMS based content publishing service (alerts and messages) is expanding its services to include five local languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, reports Agencyfaqs.…

BigAdda Launches Multilingual Messaging In 8 Languages; Holi T-Shirts With Myntra
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 03 Mar 2008 09:54 AM PST

Reliance ADA Group’s social networking portal BigAdda has announced that they have launched multiple messaging: users can now post scraps Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. I…

The Hindi Blogosphere, Content Deals And Limited Advertising Options - 13 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:43 PM PST

Amit Gupta, at Global Voices, writes about the monetization difficulties faced by those blogging in local languages - in this case, in Hindi. Gupta says “Ad revenue from programs like…