One of the founders of International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT), a respected forum of Tamil computing developers, and a person with over three decades of experience in Tamil computing, Muthu.Nedumaran is a respected voice in technology circles. Many who have followed Tamil computing over the years see the Tamil input integration into iOS 7, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, as a tipping point that is one of the biggest leaps forward in terms of enabling users operate devices in their mother tongue.) (Muthu Nedumaran’s Tamil language input software Sellinam power mobile devices of Apple and HTC and has over 1,20,000 users all over the world. Some of the things he says shock too – “As an industry, we have been completely blind to the requirement of the masses.”īut the words coming as they are from easily one of the pioneers of not just Tamil but all Indic language computing, and a man who is privy to world’s biggest technology companies makes one want to sit up and listen. Muthu.Nedumaran, who I meet over a casual coffee table conversation at a five star hotel in Chennai, speaks with a certain assuredness and calm on the opportunities that lay ahead for Tamil language computing.
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