Banned by Govt, Pak channels turn to Net
Blocked by the government and facing harsh curbs, Pakistan’s private television channels have turned to the Internet to reach viewers starved of news about the state of emergency in the country.
Tags: emergency in pakistan pakistan pakistan media pakistan news channels pakistan news on net parvez musharrafAfter Hindi email now Yahoo plans Indian language messaging
Yahoo has extended the localisation approach to its e-mail service in India. It released a Hindi version of Yahoo Mail and is working towards launching the service in other Indian languages as well.
Earlier in 2007, Yahoo launched its portal in seven Indian languages (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi and Gujarati).
“The Hindi version of Yahoo Mail will be launched in a phased manner and it will be available to all users in the next two-three weeks. Initially, only the classic version of Yahoo Mail will be offered in Hindi as it is the more popular version; later on, it will be extended to new Yahoo Mail,” agencyfaqs quotes IM Swaminathan, director, communication and community products, Yahoo! India.
Yahoo also said on Tuesday that it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.
The move comes as a growing number of rivals — from incumbents like AOL to social network sites like News Corp’s MySpace — boost their positions in the market for instant messaging services.
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 launched as a test version and has added features similar to ones seen on social networks or media-sharing sites, including extra room to post a picture or other image next to contact names and the ability to share video or photos within a message screen.
The service is adding languages from six new markets , including the Philippines , Indonesia , Malaysia, Thailand, India and Vietnam , for a total of 25 international markets.
Users can also forward messages to their mobile phones when they are away from the computer.
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