HCL showcases future gadgets at Computex

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: HCL Infosystems, India’s premier information enabling ICT system integration company today showcased its future range of products and launched breakthrough customer service technology at the four-day 'Computex 2009'.

HCL unveiled two new upcoming products at the event -– ‘HCL Electron’ –- a WiMAX enabled nettop and ‘HCL Leantop Series’.

Besides these, HCL also showcased the world’s first ‘in-built design for support’ in the form of HCL Touch key and EC2 key on HCL desktops and laptops -- a unique concept that helps customers with quick support at the touch of a button. HCL plans to launch its upcoming range of products showcased at the exhibition soon in India.

“Computex 2009 is a platform for us to showcase our latest offerings that will continue to enhance consumer experience. In line with our strong heritage of product innovation, we have launched HCL Touch key and EC2 key in our desktops and Leaptops that will offer consumers quick customer service support at touch of a button. The ‘HCL Electron’ Nettop which is WiMAX enabled, is envisioned to cater to growth in broadband technology expected in India over next few years”, said Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman & CEO, HCL Infosystems Ltd.

Key highlights
* The four-day 'Computex 2009’ is the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world being held at Taipei, Taiwan.
* HCL showcasing its upcoming range of products at the event.
* HCL unveils world’s first ‘in-built design for support’ –- HCL Touch key and EC2 key on HCL desktops and laptops for instant customer support.
* HCL announced ‘HCL Touch for Desktops’, the unique 24X7 customer support service for desktops users.
* Showcases two new upcoming products, ‘HCL leantop Series’ of leaptops and ‘HCL Electron range’ of WiMAX enabled nettops.

Among the products showcased by HCL at the ‘Computex’, is the ‘HCL Electron’ nettop. The new product is WiMAX enabled. This product underlines company’s strong heritage of offering latest in technology and enabling affordable IT solutions for the masses. HCL’s ‘Electron’ Nettop not only facilitate these but also promises to propel growth of broadband in India.

Under the upcoming range of consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) category, HCL also showcased its ‘HCL Leantop series’. The notebook weighing just 1.5 kgs, comes with never before feature, ‘Hot Keys’ for HCL Touch & EC2 for instant customer support.

By pressing HCL Touch key the customer gets linked up through internet to HCL technical specialist for any remote support they might require. HCL also announced launch of ‘HCL Touch’, the unique 24X7 customer care service for the desktop users.

EC2 Technology, Self-healing in 60 seconds -- Revolutionary ‘Embedded Continuity & Control’ (EC2) technology enables self-healing of computers, in case of a system crash or accidental loss of data by the user. EC2 technology automatically stores and updates an image of its own working state at regular intervals.

This image is a complete record of all data, including software and user data, residing inside the computer at any given point of time. In case of a system crash, malfunction or accidental loss of data, a user can simply reload the previously recorded image and thus have the computer working exactly like it was when the image was recorded. EC2 takes less than 60 seconds to reload the complete image; therefore the computer never has a downtime of more than a minute, no matter how grave the fault was.

HCL Touch -- Landmark 24x7 global customer support service, is delivered through India’s largest IT Service & support network. A network that, reaches out to over 4000 towns, The HCL touch network consists of 14 remote support centres, 505 service offices, 390 warehouses and 150 repair centres, all of which are company owned, making it India’s largest direct IT service infrastructure. The service offers telephonic support in 11 Indian regional languages, response and repair within 24 hours, SMS & Email based support facility among other highlights.

Xandros creates enhanced user experience for Netbook users with Moblin V2

COMPUTEX TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Xandros announced it is developing software products based on the recently released Moblin Version 2 project for Intel Atom processor-based platforms.

The new version of Moblin will enable Xandros to provide customizations with advanced Internet, media, social networking and graphics capabilities for the ASUS Eee PC. A turnkey Xandros software solution employing new Moblin v2 technologies will be demonstrated for the first time at the Intel booth at Computex, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2-6, 2009.

The Eee PC defined the netbook revolution by combining fast boot, low-power technologies together with a next-generation user interface. Moblin v2 enables Xandros to further enhance the Eee PC user experience by delivering advanced graphics capabilities such as drop shadows, spin, bounce and 3D animation that are universally available to all applications.

By combining core Moblin v2 technologies with Xandros' own proprietary technologies to provide social networking, multimedia content management, PIM, Web, and other services, Xandros will exceed the needs of today's consumers and provide advanced next generation touch-friendly applications specifically designed for netbook and mobile computer users.

All Xandros Moblin v2 solutions include a rich graphical user interface and an integrated application store with "click and run" access to additional software, games, multimedia and web applications for mobile devices.

"By employing Moblin Version 2 in its future products, Xandros will be able to deliver new, compelling user enhancements to Intel Atom processor-based devices such as the ASUS Eee PC," said Doug Fisher, vice president of Intel's Software and Services Group and general manager of the System Software Division. "Xandros was an early adopter of Moblin technologies and we look forward to its offerings based on the new, community driven platform for Intel Atom processor-based systems."

"The new Moblin 2 for Intel Atom processors provides the foundation to build dynamic interfaces with integrated social networking, to satisfy the media-rich lifestyle of today's mobile users in a timely manner," said Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros. "Working with ASUS on products like the ASUS Eee PC has demonstrated the wisdom of creating Linux-based 'netbooks', and we are excited to be working with the Moblin v2 palate to further enrich the user experience."