Yahoo India Launching Mail In Hindi, Web IM In Multiple Languages
By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 30 Oct 2007 01:47 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India has added two new localization features to its services—their web based messenger now allows instant messaging in multiple Indian languages - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. How many people use Yahoo’s webmessenger from India, anyway? I tried the webmessenger; here’s a screencap. What I liked was that one can use different languages in the same sentence. The company had earlier added Kannada and Hindi to
The company has also upgraded its email to allow mailing in Hindi, though I wasn’t able to enable it. A Yahoo spokesperson tells me that they’ll have rolled out the Hindi email feature to all India accounts in 3-4 days. Here’s a screencap. As per the release, the service is being offered only for Yahoo Mail Classic (not their desktop-mail like interface). In comparison, Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) already has a Hindi messenger, and it’s mail in 11 Indian languages. Sify has multilingual email as well.
