Mumbai, April 4, 2000 - Indiainfo.com, India's leading portal network, announced today that it has launched its unique Instant Messenger service. The Instant Messenger is the first of its kind for any Indian portal and has been developed by Indiainfo.com's in-house team of technicians. It employs technology that is a whole generation ahead of existing Messengers in the international market and provides features that rival and surpass those of the Instant Messenger market leaders.

"Instant Messengers are taking the world by storm because of the instant communication that they provide users. In fact, messengers are also now replacing Internet Chat as the preferred mode of keeping in touch. At Indiainfo.com we aim to provide our users the very best in terms of available technology. Our Instant Messenger, is to the best of my knowledge, the first of its kind in India and has features that surpass the market leaders in this segment," said Raj Koneru, Chairman, Indiainfo.com.

The Indiainfo.com Instant Messenger features include instant communication, "buddies" lists and parameters, automatic online alert, multi-parameter search and post reminder services. The post reminder services are unique to the Indiainfo.com messenger. In addition to this, the Instant Messenger is placed unobtrusively on the taskbar until activated. The messenger requires only 1 megabyte (1Mb) of memory, which makes it smaller than most other Instant Messengers available on the Internet.

The Instant messenger can be downloaded from www.messenger.Indiainfo.com.

About Indiainfo.com

The portal Indiainfo.com offers services that include search engines, directories, community products such as e-mail; chat; message boards, and e-commerce products. Affiliate sites, accessible through the flagship Indiainfo.com portal, include careerindia.com, thatscricket.com, esharebazaar.com, easy2gift.com and evesindia.com. Indiainfo.com also offers unique services that include comprehensive personalisation of all content on Indiainfo.com, online purchase of an exhaustive range of office stationery through Office Racks, auction services, and also extensive content in various Indian languages through their linguistic portals.

Indiainfo.com is a comprehensive Internet solution and service provider, offering a portal network, advertising network, e-commerce products addressing both B2B and B2C markets, and Internet services including hosting, connectivity and development services. Indiainfo.com currently employs over 800 people in both India and the US, including Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, New Jersey and New York.

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