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THE HINDU Lastech launches Tamil e-mail The New Indian
Express Lastech enables e-mail in
Tamil Inaugurating the website today, M.Anandakrishnan, Chairman of the IT Task Force, said this facility provided a chance to read, write and think in Tamil on the Internet in a user friendly manner. The website has easy to use keyboard layouts - DOE phonetic, typewriter and Romanised. The Tamil message can be composed by using the onscreen keyboard layout and layout sensitive character set window. Any e-mail client software such as Netscape Mail, Microsoft, Outlook, Eudora can be used to read Tamil mail. Anandakrishnan said unless all Indian languages were promoted on the Net, 95 per cent of the population would be deprived of the fruits of modern technology and development. Referring to the virtual Tamil University that would be established few months hence, he said such new facility would help the Government in constructing a digital Tamil Library.
Tamil e-mail
www.tamilanjal.com launched
Web-based Tamil e-mail
Lastech tool for vernacular
e-mail The Company also has plans to provide similar tools that will allow sending and receipt of e-mail - without downloading fonts - in 12 Indian Languages - Gujarati, Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu. Dr. M.Anandakrishnan, Chairman, Tamil Nadu IT task force, who launched the site here, said that companies have begun to take advantage of the fund announced during Tamil Net 99. The amount of about Rs.1 Crore is to encourage development of software that will give an impetus to the Tamil Language in the world of computers and the Internet. According to him, about Rs.25 Lakhs has been given to companies that are working on a Tamil search engine; a Tamil shell that will display front ends of systems such as Windows in Tamil; and a Tamil optical character recognition device. He said that the committee responsible for the fund is looking for entrepreneurs wishing to develop software tools that enable English to Tamil translation; Tamil sorting which will come in useful in the public distribution system (PDS); voice recognition for Tamil phonetics, and use of a Tamil dictionary. The nature of funding may be on the lines of venture capital or loans, depending on whether entrepreneurs wish to return the sum given out initially, he said. He also said that work on the Tamil Virtual University (TVU), is in progress and the Government would be looking to collaborate which universities in other countries such as South Africa, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius to administer the curriculam decided by the TVU.
Tamil e-mail launched The company had developed a Java-based software for using 12 Indian Languages on the net without the need to download the fonts or software, company directors told a press conference here this evening. The new technology would enable a surfer to send e-mail in Tamil, without downloading a font or software onto a user's computer system. It could be operated in various platforms like Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac, Shivakumar and Thulukkanam, directors of the company said. Launching the new website - www.tamilanjal.com - chairman of IT task force, Tamilnadu, Dr. M.Anandakrishnan, said the new facility was a `breakthrough and a boon' to several millions of Tamilians living across the globe. The website has various easy-to-use keyboard layouts and Tamil messages could be composed easily.
Web-based Tamil e-mail
launched The company had developed a Java-based software for using 12 Indian Languages on the net without the need to download the fonts or software, company directors told a news conference here. The new technology would enable a surfer to send e-mail in Tamil, without downloading a font or software onto a user's computer system. It could be operated in various platforms like windows, Unix, Linux and Mac, Shivakumar and Thulukkanam, directors of the company said. Launching the new Website - www.tamilanjal.com-chairman of IT task force, Tamilnadu, Dr.M.Anandakrishnan, said the new facility was a `breakthrough and a boon' to serveral millions of tamilians living across the globe. |
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