Wizpy from Turbolinux

DQC News Bureau

Bangalore: Turbolinux announced the launch of its latest offering 'Wizpy' in the Indian market. Wizpy is a compact, palm sized, bootable Linux OS device with a multimedia player and offers users flexibility to boot almost any computer using the Turbolinux operating system.

It provides users a bootable version of Turbolinux's operating system, which runs straight from the device. When 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, 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."

The product will be sold at price of Rs 11,995 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.