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The company introduces top ten technology product startups

HeadStart Foundation, an organization engaged in providing a platform for startups in India, held an annual conference focused on technology and innovation in partnership with Association of Computing Machinery, an association of researchers and professionals in computing, on January 09, 2009.

The event was organized to provide a platform to startups and corporate to jointly identify, pursue, and execute business and also create an opportunity for startups to directly access large corporates.

The event showcased India's best technology start-ups.

Top Indian startups:

CashNXT Technologies: A startup offering phone-to-phone money transaction model. The major advantage of this technology is that it does not depend on any operators. High Pitch sound gets transferred from phone- to-phone.

The solution is not in the market yet. The company has tied up with four banks in India and is planning to deploy the product by February.

Verismo Networks: They have created a device that has an Internet/WiFi port HDMI, and other Analog ports to plug into the TV and USB ports to input and output the content. They have tied up with Google and others to source the content.

They also have an inbuilt search engine in place. This can play pictures and audio as well. The product at SD is priced at $99.

The product is in its pilot stage in India and is available in the US only.

Art in Dynamics - Energy Saving Products	CashNxt - Sound Authentication Based Mobile Payment System
Entrip For Travel Planning + Alert Pedia For Automatic Alerts	Indus Geeks - Virtual Reality Platform
Meshlabs - Semantic Web Tools	Snappy Fingers - Question and Answer Search Engine
Tring Me - Voice for Web Applications	Verismo Networks - View Web Videos on TV
Wisdom Tap - Intelligent Product Search Engine	Wolf Frameworks - Reusable Software as Service Applications
Kallol Borah, Director, HeadStart Foundation	Aditya Mishra, Director, HeadStart Foundation
Chandrakant Patel, HP delivering Keynote

Announcing Industry-Startup collaboration initiative by HeadStart, Kallol Borah, Naveen Kulkarni (Philips), Vishy Poosala (Bell Labs/Alcatel Lucent), Harish Gandhi (Canaan), Harsha Angeri (Honeywell)

SnappyFingers: A search product in Q&A vertical. They are looking at building search engines in several verticals. The monetization is through ad display on the search results. There are concerns on copyright protection.

Alertpedia: It is a kind of Google Alert with more sources and more possible ways, like searching for a house for rent or online classifieds. It would enable getting information ranging from traffic or earthquake or simply a web search. There are a host of ways in which all alerts can be managed and aggregated.

JobHive.com: A professional-social networking website focused on employer and salary information. The website allows users to rate and review companies, research on salaries, and get information on the companies.

Tring me: The company's flash-based telephony provides Unified Communication Platform, which can handle 20 million calls every month.

iDuple: The company's small medium business startup kit is a SaaS product that includes necessary web software for a startup. The worry of  IT infrastructure is taken care of by this product. The customers would have to subscribe the package on a monthly basis.

The event witnessed participation of various corporate houses like Honeywell, Phillips, TCS, Alcatel Lucent - Bell Labs, etc.

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