Innovations from Simputer and PicoPeta
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From the world's first commercial installation of Simputers: school girls in Chhattisgarh learn from their Simputers
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The Simputer's web browser displays the Google search engine
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SIMPUTER INNOVATIONS
1. Features: The Simputer is one of the world's first handheld computers to have...
- Text-to-speech capability in nearly all the world's languages (currently supported: English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada)
- Native display capability in non-English languages languages
- Integrated SmartCard reader
- Integrated modem
- Grid-based character entry system (Tapatap)
- Integrated Speakers and Microphone
2. Technology: One of world's first handheld computers to...
- Run on the GNU/Linux OS
- Support Perl/Tcl/Tk programming
- Support X-Windows
- Have native FTP and Telnet clients
- Have three-tier architecture for applications, with an XML-based presentation tier (IML)
3. Social/Business
- Inventors recipients of the first Dewang Mehta award given by the Ministry of IT (Govt. of India) for innovation in IT
- World's first Community Digital Assistant
- Named by New York Times as the world's most important invention of 2001
- World's first hardware to be released under a GPL-like license (SGPL)
PICOPETA INNOVATIONS
- Author of Malacca, the world's most advanced interface for handhelds
- World's first interface that allows annotation of screens
- Features a full SmartCard Emulator
- World's first company exclusively devoted to providing hardware and software solutions based on the Simputer
- World's first commercial deployment of Simputers (schools in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh)
- Named by MIT's Technology Review as one of 7 hottest academic start-ups of 2001
- First WYSIWYG authoring tool for the Simputer
- World's first handheld computer to receive a digital radio broadcast
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