Project Darpan to take computing to Indian masses

The Darpan user interface will provide graphical access to the internet and provide consumers with the comfort of accessing relevant Indian content in a simple manner

FP Archives|Mar 08, 2012, 17:52:21 IST

Chennai: GoDB Tech, a city based technology company, and Intel officially announced the launch of "Project Darpan", a free, multilingual user interface (UI) initiative, to simplify the computing experience for the common man and increase PC usage in the Indian market.[caption id="attachment_238444" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="The idea behind Darpan is to make computing accessible across India: Reuters"][/caption]GoDB's Darpan user interface will provide graphical access to the internet and provide consumers with the comfort of accessing relevant Indian content in a simple manner, a company release said.Project Darpan is a software application based on an intensive research study conducted by Intel to explore ways to improve the usage of computing devices among themasses. The local language effort of Darpan will provide menus/commands of Darpan application in 6 languages ? English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.PTI

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