Turbolinux announces launch of Wizpy in India

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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. 

 

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