Nasscom to honor Indian innovation
Wednesday, 07 February 2007, 18:30 IST
Printer Print Email Email
Bangalore: When Monsoon rained Hava in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, visitors from India were pleasantly surprised. After all, they were seeing content from a ‘desi' television channel streaming forth from a display at one of the stalls in the city’s Consumer Electronics Fair. It was a live demonstration Noida-based development center Monsoon Multimedia’s creation ‘Hava'. The small box, the size of a video player, latched on to a TV set in India, `shifted' the contents — in time and place — and enabled a laptop to receive it anywhere in the world, via Internet. The instrument is being sold in the US under the Pinnacle "PC TV to Go" brand. This is one of seven such innovative products and processes that will vie for the Innovation Awards 2006, to be declared on February 8 at the annual Nasscom summit in Mumbai, reported the Business line today. The next in the line of Indian innovations that caught the global eye was showcased at the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, 2005. The gesture-based keypad developed at the Bangalore unit of Hewlett Packard's HPLabs drew wide attention from nations that use a non-Roman script. The keypad developed overcomes the problem that such scripts have with the QWERTY keyboard designed for Roman scripts. It has already been launched for Indian languages such as Kannada — and is another finalist among over 150 entries this year. Ittiam Systems is one of the strong contenders for the Nasscom award this year. Among its entries are a videophone based on the Internet Protocol and a portable media player-cum recorder—both technologies already available under the hood of many a big brand name in the business. StrandLife Sciences has a product innovation of its own to offer: Avadis is a comprehensive data mining and predictive platform using a novel algorithm that will be of immense use in drug discovery, reported the publication. One of the interesting entries this year is Bharti Airtel’s business model. The company has outsourced all its IT-related activity to IBM—thus marking the first time anywhere in the world that a telecom player has outsourced its entire information needs.
Source: IANS
siliconindia