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Recently W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Mobile Web Initiative group conducted a 8 week training course titled “An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices”. Vishwak is proud to announce that our Senior Engineer for Mobile ‘Sheik Dawood Jaindullabudeen’ has completed the certification course successfully. This reaffirms Vishwak’s commitment to Mobile Web and to a World Wide Web based firmly on standards. The intensive course covered Challenges of Mobile Web, Coding Techniques, standards, tools & resources for developing for Mobile Web and more.

Using its Mobile Content Delivery System (MCDS), Vishwak helps content producers around  the world to have their contents delivered to any mobile devices as easily and conveniently as it is today done on the PC (Web).  "The Mobile Web Initiative’s goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality", explains Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web.

Today the Human Resources Department at Vishwak had organized a Wellness Drive program for all team members in collaboration with “STAR LABS+”. The team headed by Dr.V.Madhavan (Asst.Professor – Department of Cardiology, Govt. Hospital, Royapettah) included Technicians and conducted physical examination (eg: Height, wait, Pressure and BMI check-up) and offered wellness consultation to all participants. Primary Healthcare Special discount coupons were issued to all for further check-up in their hospital. More than 60 of Vishwak Team members eagerly participated and benefited from the wellness drive.

On invitation of our Chairman Mr.T.N.C.Venkatarangan Microsoft Research India Managing Director Dr.P.Anandan and MSR’s Multilingual Systems Research Scientist Mr.A.Kumaran visited Vishwak Solutions during their Chennai trip today. Our Chairman explained to them the leading work Vishwak’s team are performing for its Media & Mobile customers on latest Web & Mobile technologies.

Vishwak Solutions is happy to welcome these World leading Computer Scientists to its Development Centre in Chennai.

Vishwak is pleased to announce the availability in “iTunes Store” of its Vishwak Video Player for Apple iPhone. Vishwak Video Framework (VVF) is an Online Video Management and Delivery Platform. It enables online publishers and media houses to experience the benefits of the latest video sharing technologies. With this newly released Player for iPhone, the videos uploaded to VVF can be browsed, selected and played from your iPhone. This Application is released “free” of charge for all users.

This is our second public application for Apple iPhone platform listed in iTunes store. Our first application was a Tamil classic work Thirukkural reader “free” for iPhone.

Vishwak is proud to be developing a Knowledge Management (KM) Portal for World Vision India, a Christian humanitarian organization that has more than 50 years of experience in India. Being an NGO with presence in 24 states across the country this KM portal initiative, once deployed  will help World Vision to connect its Knowledge workers. Using the KM portal they will meet in a common place  to exchange ideas, work progress, have better information about their programmes, get faster updates and more.

Seen in the photograph above taken during WorldVision team visit recently to our Chennai Headquarters are
Standing (left to right): Mr.Adam (Business Analyst, Global Centre, WorldVision), Mr.Aravindan Selvaraj (GM, Vishwak), Ms.Shirin Samuel (Associate Director – Information Technology, WorldVision), Mr.E.Ravi (GM Systems, Vishwak), Mr.P.Govindarajan (Senior Software Engineer, Vishwak). Sitting (left to right): Ms.S.Parameswari (PM, Vishwak),  Mr.Sureh (Group Executive, Programme Effectiveness and Public Engagements, WorldVision), Mr.T.N.C.Venkata Rangan (CMD, Vishwak), Mr.Lindon Johnson (Manager – Knowledge Management, Worldvision).

Recently our product EasyTools.com URL Checker Ver.1.5 was certified by Microsoft to be Windows 7 compatible and listed in their Windows 7 Compatible Center. Windows 7 Compatible Center is an extensive collection of compatibility information for users upgrading to Windows 7 operating system.

URL Checker is a high-speed multi-threaded Hyperlinks (URL) validation desktop tool. The list of URLs can be loaded from a local file (XML, HTML, Text) or from a webpage. URL Checker validates all HTTP, HTTPS (SSL) URLs and connects through all popular HTTP proxies. It allows the results to be saved as HTML, XML or Text Reports. The Multi-Threaded Application ensures it can verify over 1000s of URLs in a minute.

Founded in 1997, EasyTools.com is the independent products arm of Vishwak Solutions. We at Easytools.com believe that technology is not just an interface - it is the structure. To us, the solutions are in the mind - which is where our motto steps in - Complex Problems, Easy Solutions.

For a leading retailer’s online store, Vishwak enabled access from Mobile devices and Mobile Payment integration. The existing Desktop (Web) online store was developed and maintained by Vishwak and powered by Microsoft Commerce Server platform.

The web store was extended for mobile users with ability to browse products, to view latest products and purchase them through mobile or add items to their cart for deferred purchase. As a first of its kind feature, Vishwak’s retail team enabled seamless transition from Mobile to Web. The cart saved from Mobile can be purchased through web by logging into the regular web store. This way, the user can complete the transaction at their convenience either from Mobile or from PC. Apart from online purchase by Credit/Debit card, Products purchased through mobile can be paid through CoD (Cash on Delivery) as well.

Mobile payment gateway for credit card/debit card is provided by mChek, a mobile payment solution that securely links credit/debit card to a mobile number and helps make payment from that mobile. Once a payment request is received by the mobile payment gateway it initiates an USSD session and prompts for a PIN (shared secret) from the mobile subscriber; the user enters the PIN. The USSD message is then sent back from the mobile device to mChek server. On receiving the authorization from the mobile user, the mobile payment gateway communicates with respective VISA/MasterCard gateways as per PCI-DSS standards. Post the required validation the mobile payment service uses the Application’s Web Service interfaces for validating inventory status. Based on the inventory availability the transaction is confirmed to the mobile users through SMS or IVR.

Vishwak Solutions is proud to announce that it is now a “Adobe Solution Partner” at Bronze level. Adobe Solution Partners are companies that provide solution-based sales, system integration, services, or extended products based on Adobe technology. The membership provides access to valuable technical, sales, and enablement resources, including software, communications, marketing and support from Adobe to assist our mutual customers.

The Solution Partner program recognizes the significant value of Vishwak Solutions Services & Products. Through the program, Adobe delivers tools and resources to enrich customer experience.

Vishwak’s Video Framework (VVF) has multiple integration points with Adobe technologies including Adobe Flash, Flex & Flash Media Server.

With over 100,000 3rd party applications available for iPhone, Apple’s App Store is a runaway success for mobile application developers. Recently, Vishwak developed and released for free, a “Reader” application for iPhone containing Tamil classic work Thirukkural (Tamil: திருக்குறள் also known as the Kural).

Thirukkural (or the Kural) is a collection of 1330 Tamil couplets organised into 133 chapters. Each chapter has a specific subject ranging from "ploughing a piece of land" to "ruling a country". It is dated anywhere from the second century BC to the eighth century AD. According to the LIFCO Tamil-Tamil-English dictionary, the Tamil word Kural means Venpa, a verse with two lines.

Vishwak is a pioneer in creating applications & WAP sites for Mobile devices. With Vishwak’s cutting-edge Content Delivery System (MCDS), expert use of Adaptive Rendering Technology and our Portal Expertise, Vishwak makes web access from mobile devices as easy, simple and convenient as it is on a desktop device.

Last month on 29th Sep ‘09  Vishwak organized a Eye Screening Camp for its team members and it was conducted by “Vasan Eye Care Hospital”. A seven member team comprising of Ophthalmologist, Optometrist, Counsellor, Medical Social Worker and organizers conducted the camp. 

The camp was structured into “three stages” - Computerized Eye Testing through AR, Vision Check and Counselling. People who needed further medical attention were referred to appropriate Doctors & discount coupons were issued for further check-up in Vasan Eye Care hospital. More than 60 Vishwakians participated and got their eyes tested in the camp that ran from morning till afternoon on that day.

Vishwak thanks Vasan Eye Care and its team for their support during the camp.

Recently our customer LIFCO Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (a leading book publishing house from South India) approached us to upgrade their website within a month, to enhance manageability thru easier and faster operations. We took up this challenge and delivered within a month, a more manageable system with easier and faster operations. The previous version of the site (www.lifcobooks.com) was developed several years back on then latest technology platform – Microsoft Content Management 2002 and over the years the site has lot of functionalities built on ASP.NET.

Considering their requirements - Time to release, ease of use (update of content & management by their in-house staff) & cost, we decided on the CMS platform to be Joomla! and the blog platform to be WordPress. Both Joomla! and WordPress run on PHP and PHP runs great in IIS 7.0 using FastCGI technology. The choice of IIS 7.0/Windows Server 2008 solved the other requirement of running  many of their existing applications built on .NET framework. Our Open Source team in Vishwak developed the new templates in Joomla! and WordPress. Then moved the content from MCMS 2002 using a combination of manual import and automated scripts. The content from dasBlog engine to WordPress was moved almost entirely automatically. All done, the new site was released as estimated on LIFCO’s founder’s day on 22nd July.

After the upgrade the new site now sports – Fast loading pages, Twitter Integration, Full Featured Shopping Cart, Site search, Blog Integration, Video Integration, Attractive Photo Gallery and more.

The team of technical experts from PC Quest have shortlisted Vishwak Video Framework (VVF) under “Online Portal Solutions” category for the PC Quest Best IT Implementation of The Year 2009. The results are expected to be announced soon.

VVF is an Online Video Management and Delivery Platform from “Vishwak” - the leaders in Media and Newspaper portals. VVF is a robust video content management and delivery solution. VVF allows video to be delivered to a wide range of devices – Web Browsers, Mobile phones like iPhone, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Music devices like iPod and others. VVF support user uploaded video content from their mobile phones using a light-weight mobile client application. VVF enables online publishers and media houses to take full advantage of the latest feature video sharing technologies.

You can read the full listing in PC Quest here or from here (vvf nomination in PCQuest June 2009.pdf)

Hello FM – a leading Radio FM channel in South India running 7 different stations in the region has recently launched their interactive website. Vishwak Solutions did the glitzy new design and developed the portal using its flagship Media CMS framework “VPF”.

The website offers Live Streaming of Radio programmes, Program Schedules, Special Events, Info about favourite RJ’s, their blogs, careers and more. The site promotes sections like Top 10 Songs, Today's Artists, Opinion Poll and many more. HelloFM’s site delivers the best user experience for the teen user group who love music and radio programs with highly interactive user participation and host of Web2.0 features.

Microsoft India today launched ‘Project Vikas´, an initiative to bring software solutions to small and medium enterprises in association with National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council. “With Project Vikas, we aim to help SMEs, by bringing tailor made software solutions and make operations more efficient, leading to increased revenues and creating relationships with customers and partners” - Microsoft India, Emerging Geographies Director Rajiv Sodhi told reporters here. The portal has been created by Microsoft on the Microsoft .NET platform including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. Vishwak Solutions is proud to have been associated with Microsoft in designing and developing this solution.