HCL Infosystems India’s premier hardware, services and ICT system Integration Company today announced its entry into the kids educational computing market, aiming to reach out to the children of age-group between 3 to 12 years with special education content designed for learning through fun for kids. The company today unveiled its range of kids educational computers meant exclusively for children with four models of HCL ME Topper and Junior Topper series. This interactive experience has been designed to enable affordable computing for kids, backed with interactive content to sharpen the intelligence quotient of the developing mind of kids.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. George Paul, Executive Vice President, HCL Infosystems Ltd said “Technology brings new ways to aid education and with the rapidly transforming environment it is imperative that newer interactive ways through latest technology are devised to reach out to the next generation early. With computing becoming the future mode of education, we believe learning devices backed with rich education content will engage kids to develop their intelligence and thinking ability that quickens their learning curve”

With the best assorted computing content for kids, the HCL ME kids educational computers are going to be available at highly affordable prices ranging from Rs. 1090/- to Rs. 1690/-. HCL ME Kids Education Kids Computers will offer ‘an absolute value for money’ and will be available with various education activities, games, music, comparatively large screens, and many more. The kids educational computers for kids will be available at various retailers, toys shop and HCL ME Exclusive stores. This new HCL ME computer range will include HCL ME L1-30 and L2-36 under the Junior Topper series and HCL ME L1-88 and D1-48, which is also India’s first wireless desktop for kids, under the Topper series. All HCL ME kids educational computers are built on greentechnology and the products are recyclable with ROHS and CE compliance.

HCL Infosystems launches this new kids educational computer range today at the 3rd edition of Kidex Exhibition at Chennai Trade Centre. The kids will also be provided with a surprise gift by the company with every purchase of the HCL range of kids educational computers.

For more information please contact:

Ashutosh Bhattacharya
Head - Corporate Communications, HCL Infosystems
Mob: + 91 98119 20415
ashutosh.bhattacharya@hcl.in
Hanmer Contact:
Rashi Mehrotra / Swati Jain
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HCL Infosystems has unveiled its new range of 3G enabled ME series Netbook, the HCL ME 06.Designed to match the persona of today’s youth and support the on-the-go lifestyle of business executives, HCL ME 06 comes with integrated 3G capabilities, offering seamless connectivity and faster access to the internet. With energy star 5.0 certified, HCL ME 06 will be available in a range of colours including red, blue and black.

HCL also launched the new notebook ‘HCL ME 45’, equipped with multi touch gesture touchpad that helps a user to expand, shrink and rotate the picture through the movement of figures on touchpad. Other innovative features include -
SPLIT ME where one can share their data without worrying about the size of the file
LOCK ME that prevents data theft from the system. This feature ensures that the data cannot be copied on to external storage devices, USB memory sticks, CD optical disk drives, hard disk drive without getting authorization from the user,
Secure ME is an effective tool which can be used to lock any application installed on the PC e.g. Internet Browser, Adobe, Power point etc, another feature
Encrypt ME allows the user to encrypt their data and avoids unauthorized access of the data providing assurance against data theft.

The HCL ME 06 netbook is priced at Rs. 19,990 and HCL ME 45 notebook is available for Rs. 39,990. These products will be available across stores in the country.

With the launch of these products, HCL also kick started a special festival campaign the ‘Winter Carnival’. Under this limited period festival offer a consumer will get an assured gift i.e. Yuvraj Singh autographed Reebok Track suit worth Rs. 5999. In addition on the purchase of an HCL ME 38 series laptop a consumer will also be eligible to receive a Nokia 3500c mobile phone worth Rs. 6289.

Two whole years after they should have, Nintendo is finally bringing the Wii to India--or more accurately, allowing Samurai India and HCL to bring it to India--on the 30th of this month. There have been rumours circulating over this through the Indian distributors for months now, and note that there is no official confirmation of this news yet. However, the ANGRY pixel seems certain and breaks news that the Nintendo Wii is Indian-bound, and soon. The DS, that dual-touchscreened handheld of joy, will come along with the Wii as well. The Wii will be priced at Rs 19,990 (about $450!), and the DS for at 7,990. And here we were, thinking that the grey market prices were ridiculous.We wonder if this move comes a little too late--people who really wanted a Wii gave up waiting a long time ago, and were content with dropping Rs 15,000 on a console that should really cost Rs 11,000 ($250, remember?). We'd expected the launch price to take a swipe at the grey market price, but it looks like this is not to be. The DS, however, is a more reasonable Rs 7,990, and should compete with the PSP rather well. It too, however, has adorned the shelves of stores that took to importing the little handheld themselves.

What might win people over could be clever marketing and retail store presence. Few can resist the waggle-wand that the house of Mario built. But we do believe that a price closer to Rs. 12,000 would have done wonders for the little white console in India.

There's also the question of whether the Wii will come in its NTSC or in its PAL avatar. When rumours first trickled over HCL bringing the unit to India, NTSC was being touted as the unit incoming. Indeed, the few retail titles that are officially available in India are NTSC games. For gamers, NTSC would be great news -- PAL releases, especially for titles under the Nintendo banner, are ridiculously delayed. It would do us well to be aligned with US release dates. We'll know better when the console finally launches.

For now, after two years of waiting for an official launch, wii're not that impressed with the launch price.

Microsoft and HCL have together announced a set of initiatives which includes the roll out of a low-priced ultra portable Windows OS enabled laptop, under the MiLeap brand of HCL Leaptops.

Operating on Windows XP Home edition, the new MiLeap H Series laptop weighs just 0.98kg and sports a 7-inch TFT colour screen display; this screen can be rotated and folded to be converted into a writing pad. User can write on the screen with the stylus and convert it to text.Powered by ultra-low voltage consuming Intel Processor and Intel 945 GU Express chipset, the laptop comes equipped with a 1.3 mega pixel webcam, touch screen panel, and 1GB DDR2 RAM. In addition, the laptop also includes a built-in touchpad with two click buttons for left and right click operations, scroll, directional pads, dedicated softkeys for launching the media player and built-in speakers. The connectivity options include Wi-Fi and integrated LAN.

Touted to be the lowest priced Windows XP powered laptop in the market, it costs Rs 16,990.

The launch of this new Windows OS enabled low-priced laptop comes just a week after Microsoft announced the worldwide extension of the availability of Windows XP Home for ULCPCs until June 30, 2010.After the launch of Windows Vista, the software giant had said that it will stop selling Windows XP completely by January 2009, while the sellers will stop bundling the same with machines June onwards.

Apart from the launch of the laptop, duo has also plans for the creation of a joint Centre of Excellence (CoE) with over 500 software professionals to create, design, and deploy Microsoft technologies based solution frameworks across various industry verticals.