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Rediff's Chairman Ajit Balakrishnan and Marketing Head Manish Agarwal yesterday proudly announced their new offering of unlimited storage space to their 50 million users of rediffmail.

Existing users and new users will now have a permanent lifetime account with rediffmail without worrying of limitations of MB's and GB's, thus offering the possibility of using their email service as a lifelong archive of emails.

Rediff.com http://Rediff.com India Limited, one of the leading worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services, announced today the launch of 'Access Mails Anywhere' functionality for its Rediffmail service.

Users can now configure their Rediffmail account with their mobile number to access their inbox by simply sending 'MAIL' as SMS to 7333. They would be also able to read, reply, delete and forward mails directly from their mobile phone. Users can also set 'SMS Alerts' for notification of important incoming emails.

On the occasion of the launch of this mobility initiative, Manish Agarwal, Vice President Marketing, Rediff.com said "Anytime, anywhere access to information is increasingly the norm for consumers today. This feature truly makes email service device agnostic, by enabling millions of users who do not have a GPRS connection to access their mails on the move."

Users with GPRS enabled phones can continue to access a richer version of Rediffmail from its WAP site available at: http://mobile.rediff.com http://mobile.rediff.com/

The company said that new mobility feature has been currently added only for Rediffmail and Rediffmail Plus users, soon to be introduced to Rediffmail Pro and Enterprise Pro business email users.

Rediff.com India Limited, one of the leading worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services. Rediff announced today that it has acquired a minority stake in Tachyon Technologies, a Bangalore based software company Tachyon, for an undisclosed sum. Today's announcement is a part of Rediff's efforts to boost its competitiveness by investing in start-up companies with innovative technologies that allow Rediff to provide better services for its customers.

Ajit Balakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Rediff.com, said we aspire to encourage promising start-ups to develop innovative world class products that support our business. As a part of such efforts, we are delighted to have an opportunity to invest in a promising start-up company, such as Tachyon Technologies.

Venki Nishtala, Chief Technology Officer of Rediff.com, added as a leading Internet portal of the country, we believe enhanced Indian language use capability through Tachyon's innovative software can help fuel product innovation and is consistent with our strategy of promoting growth by introducing innovative technologies. The predictive text input technology developed by Tachyon is based on sophisticated machine learning techniques and is an improvement on simple phonetic maps and specialized language keyboards, thus enabling millions of Indians to benefit from the Internet.

Tachyon Technologies has built a world class product named 'Quillpad', which enables users to type in English alphabets to input words in other languages (in the respective scripts) with ease on the basis of phonetics, allowing them to communicate in their language of choice. Rediff.com has adopted this technology in its "Rediffmail" email and "Rediff Bol" messenger service.

Commenting on the Rediff's investment in Tachyon, Ram Prakash H, CEO of Tachyon Technologies said Rediff.com's investment in Tachyon Technologies should provide us with the capital we need to enhance our development infrastructure. Hopefully, this will help us to realize our ultimate goal of developing great products.

K S Sreeram, co-founder of Tachyon Technologies added, Tachyon, as one of the technologically innovative companies in India, welcomes this opportunity to be associated with Rediff.com. We know from our experience that people at Rediff.com understand the importance of product innovation and development to succeed in this competitive environment.