TURBOLINUX ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF WIZPY IN INDIA

TURBOLINUX ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF WIZPY IN INDIA

The complete multimedia and personal computing solution for users on the move

Chennai/ New Delhi, June 13 ? Turbolinux, the leading Linux software company headquartered in Japan, today announced the launch of its latest offering ‘wizpy’ in the Indian market. wizpy is a compact, palm sized, bootable Linux OS device with a feature-rich multimedia player. wizpy offers users the power and flexibility to boot almost any computer in the world using the Turbolinux operating system.

wizpy provides users a bootable version of Turbolinux’s operating system which runs straight from the device. When wizpy is attached to a computer’s USB port, users can boot-up the Linux system that resides in the wizpy’s memory to set up their own personal computer environment and access their documents, e-mails and the internet, keeping their and the host computer’s data confidential and safe.

The device also doubles as a multimedia player, offering a 1.7-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) color screen and keypad on the front. wizpy has software to play music in Ogg, MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats, and to show xviD, MPEG4 video files and JPEG images. It can also record sound to MP3 files, display text files, and has an inbuilt FM radio.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Deepak Wassan, President, Turbolinux said, “Through wizpy we are introducing a new concept of ‘PC 2.0′. With this product we have unbundled OS from the hardware. Now one can carry along the OS environment, applications, mails and data, and these are accessible at all times at any place with access to a PC. Important data such as passwords and credit card information now need not be left on the PC but can be stored on wizpy itself, thus preventing your personal information from being compromised. Apart from the portable OS, wizpy also provides multimedia features such as audio player, video player, image viewer, voice recorder and FM radio making it a very user friendly product. ”

The product will be sold at price of Rs. 11995/= (MRP) and will available through select retail outlets. Turbolinux has partnered with eSys Technologies and the online portal cafegadgets.in for its distribution requirements in India.

About Turbolinux Inc.

Turbolinux is a leading Linux software company committed to providing the latest in Linux-based solutions. Founded in 1995, Turbolinux has built and maintained a leadership position as a provider of Linux distributions in Asia, with a platform for further innovations to make enterprise computing simpler and more cost-effective. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has offices in China and India.

About Turbolinux India

Turbolinux India is a joint venture between Turbolinux Inc, Japan’s leading Linux Solution provider and IAP Company Limited, a premier Indo-Japanese software development and services company. Turbolinux India was established in 2006 to introduce Turbolinux products and solutions in the Indian market. By integrating Turbolinux’s Linux OS related platform technologies and IAPs experiences in solution development, Turbolinux will work at creating Linux based solutions for the global market.

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