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e-Telugu workshop for Web Developers (Hyderabad, April 15)

e-Telugu, a non-profit organization striving to promote Telugu on computers and the web, is organizing a workshop for web developers on Building Telugu Websites. The workshop will last about 2 hours and covers various topics like Unicode, conveying language information … Continue reading

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Shubhalekha becomes the first Telugu book on Project Gutenberg

Pustakam.net had requested for help to add Telugu books to the Project Gutenberg. As part of that initiative, volunteers of Pustakam.net digitized Shubhalekha, a Telugu story by Mahidhara Ramamohan Rao and made it available on the Project Gutenberg website. Shubhalekha … Continue reading

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Telugu Wikipedia reaches 50,000 articles

Couple of days ago Telugu Wikipedia reached the mark of 50,000 articles. Telugu is second Indian language to reach that mark after Hindi. Homepage of Telugu Wikipedia

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SuraVara, new kid on the block

Chava Kiran (a co-founder of Kinige) started a new initiative called SuraVara to concentrate on Telugu language technologies. They started with two projects: (1) a book on Telugu blogging blaagu pustakam; (2) a keyboard for Telugu. Here is a brief … Continue reading

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SiliconAndhra releases 3 new Telugu Unicode fonts

On the eve of International Mother Language Day (Feb 21), SiliconAndhra, in association with the IT Department of Government of Andhra Pradesh, released 3 free Telugu Unicode fonts and also launched a website called Telugu Vijavam about technical resources for … Continue reading

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Veturi.in, a Telugu website dedicated to Veturi Sundararama Murthy

Few fans of Late Veturi Sudararama Murthy, a famous Telugu lyricist, launched a website, veturi.in, as a remembrance to Veturi and as a place for fans of Veturi to share and promote their passion for Veturi’s Telugu songs. Here is … Continue reading

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InScript+ an enhanced InScript keyboard layout for Telugu

Unicode 6.0 has standardized code points for Telugu characters. However, the classic or old characters cannot easily be typed. So, C-DAC has come up with proposal called Enhanced InScript Keyboard Layout. (You can get their proposal from their web site.) … Continue reading

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Typing Telugu in mobile phones

I had blogged about viewing Telugu in mobiles. Now, it is time for typing Telugu in mobiles. It is possible to type in Telugu in iPhone and Android phones. Here are couple of relevant links:

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Stock market related web sites or blogs in Telugu

Telugu content on the web is growing at a good pace. Lots and lots of web sites are coming up. This post is about web sites or blogs that offer information relating to stock market, shares, trading tips, etc in … Continue reading

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Web sites for learning Telugu

There are many resources on the web to learn Telugu. These range from learning the alphabet to learning Telugu grammar and chandassu. Some of them even have applications for Android and iPad. Here are the links that I can gather:

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