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| THE HINDU |
| Thursday, February 24, 2000 |
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| Lastech launches Tamil e-mail |
| CHENNAI : Lastech Systems has introduced a web facility that will
enable Internet users to send e-mails in Tamil. It has developed a
Java-based software for using 12 Indian languages on the net without
the need to download the fonts or software. Using this technology,
the company has launced a website www.tamilanjal.com
that will enable a surfer to send e-mail in Tamil. -
Our Corporate Reporter. |
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| The
New Indian Express |
| Tuesday,
February 15,2000 |
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| Lastech
enables e-mail in Tamil |
| ENS
Economic Bureau |
| Chennai, Feb 14: Chennai based Lastech Systems has launched a web
facility that will enable Internet users to send e-mail in Tamil.
Launching a site at www.tamilanjal.com, Lastech has developed a Java
based software for using 12 Indian Languages on the Net without the
need to download the fonts or software. This facility can be operated
across platforms such as Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac etc. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| THE
ECONOMIC TIMES |
| CHENNAI
TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2000 |
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| Tamil
e-mail www.tamilanjal.com launched |
| Chennai: You can now send and receive e-mails in Tamil
without downloading any font or software. Chennai-based Lastech Systems
has come out with a pioneering web facility www.tamilanjal.com, that
will enable Internet users to send e-mails in Tamil without having
to download a font or software onto a user's computer system. This
facility can be operated across several platforms - Windows, Unix,
Linux and Mac. The company has developed a Java-based software for
using 12 Indian Languages on the net. The website has various easy-to-use
keyboard layouts like DOE, Phonetic, Typewriter and Romanised. The
Tamil messages can be composed easily 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 this Tamil mail. Lastech is planning to launch another
website www.email2india.com next week which will enable users to send
emails in any of the 12 Indian Languages such as Assamesse, Bengali,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit,
Tamil and Telugu. |
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| The
Financial Express |
| CHENNAI,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2000. |
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| Web-based
Tamil e-mail |
| Lastech Systems has launched the world's first web-based
Tamil e-mail. The web facility, enabling internet users to send e-mail
in Tamil was launched in Chennai on Monday by M.Anandakrishnan, Vice
Chairman of the state council for Higher Education. |
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| Business
Line |
| 14,
Wednesday, February 16, 2000. |
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| Lastech
tool for vernacular e-mail |
| Our
Bureau |
| CHENNAI,
Feb. 15 |
| LASTECH Systems (P) Ltd was launched its web facility
by which surfers may send and receive e-mail in Tamil without having
to download separate fonts. According to Mr.M.Thulukkanam, Director,
Lastech: "Users will need to log on to www.tamilanjal.com, and use
the instruction panel to key in e-mails in Tamil." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| NEWS
TODAY |
| TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2000 |
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| Tamil e-mail launched |
| Chennai, Feb 15: |
| Chennai-based Lastech Systems Pvt. Ltd, has introduced
a pioneering web facility that will enable internet users to send
e-mails in Tamil to benefit millions of Tamils across the globe. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The website has various easy-to-use keyboard layouts and Tamil messages
could be composed easily. |
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| TRINITY
MIRROR |
| TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2000 |
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| Web-based Tamil e-mail launched |
| Chennai, Feb 15: Chennai-based Lastech Systems Pvt.
Ltd., has introduced a pioneering web facility that will enable Internet
users to send e-mails in Tamil to benefit millions of Tamils across
the globe. |
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| 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.
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| 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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