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Market not sleepy for Harbinger

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PUNE, INDIA: The R word does not exist, at least so far and in the markets like education and government that Harbinger operates in apparently. Vikas Joshi, CMD, Harbinger Group says positively that the company has witnessed good growth and markets like Europe and AP have shown good prospects already.

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He also launches today another product called YawnBuster, which is claimed to add life to presentations.

"The central idea of YawnBuster is to make presentations more lively and interactive. It adds life to PowerPoint slides with group activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions by helping presenters easily add group activities to their PowerPoint presentations." he said. 

"YawnBuster brings together PowerPoint and Flash, two most popular tools used in presentations and web development. With YawnBuster, a PowerPoint user can quickly and easily introduce Flash-based group activities in the presentation, with no need for programming," shared Rahul Mulay, GM, Operations. 

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Group activities like quizzes, Bingo, brainstorming sessions, flip book for takeaways and audience poll range from being ice-breakers, energizers, and contests, or as session closers, he demonstrated.

Speaking to CyberMedia News, Rahul Mulay, general manager, Operations shared that besides the other ideas and additions underway, there is also scope for user-generated ideas on templates to be added to the presentations. This would be possible later on with SDK (Software Development Kit) and online community.

Trainers would be the major market for this product that would be later extended to sales, education and corporate presentations. No approximate market projections, however, could be ascertained. As the company maintains, it won't be pitting against the MS PowerPoint market but would rather be a complimentary offering.

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"What enables this is a patent-pending technology developed indigenously by Harbinger."

The patent application, which is for India and US both, would be for the platform, software architecture, data model and communication model. "This is never done before and is thus patentable." clarified Mulay.

The product would be launched all across the globe in the next two months and would be available on a seven-day free trial at www.yawnbuster.com. Introductory prices for regular users stand at $240 while for education and government segments the licence fee is at $180, which is a perpetual desktop license.

Flockpod, a tool for informal networking, that it launched earlier has now been changed to Teemingpod and has garnered over 1000 users so far amongst its audience, which consists mainly of web developers.

Harbinger's other products include Raptivity for the e-learning market.

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