Business India, 21st October 2007

Novatium Solutions Pvt Ltd, a Chennai-based IT company recently announced a tie-up with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) for the launch of Novatium’s Nova netPC

The Navhind Times 8th October 2007

Novatium Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading IT companies, today announced a strategic tie-up with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) for the launch of Novatium’s Nova netPC, a breakthrough in utility desktop delivery for as low as Rs. 399 a month.

BenefIT Magazine Oct 2nd 2007

Finally, it has become easy to computerize all your operations without worrying about the infrastructure cost.

Coverage (Zee Business) of Novatium’s netPC launch with MTNL in Delhi

CNN IBN, Sept 27th, 2007

The $100 computer has finally arrived. For a mere Rs 5,000, the urban employee with a shallow pocket can make his dream of a home PC come true. The home PC is a product of Novatium, a Chennai-based start-up in collaboration with MTNL. The 'Nova' is a Net PC.

Novatium launches NetPC

Hindu Sept 25th 2007

Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja on Monday launched NetPC, a home computing service, introduced by the Chennai-based Novatium Solutions Private Limited in tie-up with the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited in Delhi

HT Mint – Sept 25th 2007

Novatium Solutions Ltd, an ambitious Indian computer maker, aims to have around one million customers by 2009 for its recently launched “thin client” computer, and is banking on alliances such as the one announced on Monday with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL).

Indiaearnings.com – Sept 24th 2007

Novatium Solutions Private Limited, one of India’s leading IT companies, today announced a strategic tie-up with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) for the launch of Novatium’s Nova netPC, a breakthrough in utility desktop delivery for as low as Rs. 399 a month. This is the first time a complete solution is offered to the customer. As part of the deal, MTNL will take computing to the masses with the help of Novatium’s globally patented breakthrough technology “DUDM”. The MTNL and Novatium tie-up will revolutionize the concept of ‘computing as a service’ rather than a product.

India Today, July 09, 2007

The low-cost PC is finally here, and from a home-grown technology company, which seeks to sell computing as a service, not a device. Novatium, a company founded by serial entrepreneur Rajesh Jain and Ray Stata, founder and chairman of Analog Devices, is attempting to redefine computing in India by providing it as a service and not as a mere box.

$100 PC soon to be a reality from Chennai

Indian Express, September 2007

A company based at KK Nagar in Chennai is arousing interest of IT personalities like Bill Gates, Nicholas Negroponte, Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison and magazines such as Newsweek are clamouring to do a cover story about its product.

We applaud the company's vision for providing 'Computing for the next billion' by building an affordable and simple technology platform that provides an array of comprehensive computing solutions.

Awarded to Novatium Solutions Pvt. Ltd., for Innovation on Nova netPC.

The world discovered the electricity grid, where the power is generated at one point and distributed to thousands. That's the concept here. NOVATIUM, the start-up behind the Nova NetPC, is the brainchild of enterpreneur Rajesh Jain. A simple set-top box with the monitor communications at Columbia University.

Mr. Jain, chief executive officer of Mumbai's Netcore Solutions, met Professor Mr. Ashok Jhunjunwala of the IIT in chennai four years ago.

CHENNAI: G. Mani is a Southern Railway employee and resident of Parkavi Apartments in K.K. Nagar in Chennai. Like millions of others in the country, he requires a personal computer for basic Internet connectivity and simple tasks. Six months ago, he was still deciding whether to invest Rs.30, 000 in a branded PC or shell out Rs.20, 000 for an assembled PC. Both estimates would have taken a large chunk of his middle-class budget.

Then luck smiled on him. Novatium, a Chennai-based company that was developing a Net PC, identified the South Chennai locality to run a pilot test of its low-cost PC.

Sam Daniel Monday, March 26, 2007 (Chennai) An innovation by a Chennai based company could make computers more accessible to the common man.

The company is providing computers to common man at a cost of little over Rs 4000.Over a hundred lower middle income families in a colony in the city are now hooked on to computers.

It costs them just Rs 4500. There is no individual CPU but terminals are connected to a server installed in the locality.

At Rs 350 a month, users get the same benefit of a personal computer, including the Internet in a much simpler way. Two-year-old Shivani spends over five hours a day on her system. And for older students it's a dream come true.

Feb. 12, 2007 issue - In a humble residential neighborhood in the south Indian city of Chennai, Hema Malini-a quiet 13-year-old girl whose hair was braided with jasmine flowers-switched on the family television and a curious new device called Nova NetTV that was connected to the TV and a keyboard. In a few seconds, the Microsoft Windows logo appeared, and suddenly her TV was transformed into a PC. With her mother looking on proudly, Hema fired up encyclopedia software, checked her e-mail and Googled for a site that offers free versions of Nintendo's Mario Bros. games.

If Rajesh Jain is successful, the NetTV, which hooks up to any television, could be the first in a family of devices that connect the next billion people to the Internet. Jain, 39, is cofounder and chairman of Novatium, the Chennai-based company that makes NetTV and NetPC, a similar product that uses a normal computer monitor. Both are based on cheap cell-phone chips and come without the hard-disk drive, extensive memory and prepackaged software thatadd hundreds of dollars to the cost of regular PCs. Instead, they are little more than a keyboard, a screen and a couple of USB ports-and use a central network server to run software applications and store data. Novatium already sells the NetPC for only $100-just within reach of India's growing middle class-and Jain believes he can soon drive the price down to $70.

Entrepreneurs, philanthropists and established computer firms have for the better part of a decade invested millions of dollars to lower the cost of a desktop PC and develop cheaper alternatives. Intel has made its Eduwise laptop; AMD, a Personal Internet Communicator; Microsoft, the FonePlus. MIT computer guru Nicholas Negroponte's Children's Machine, now called the XO, is the most publicized recent attempt at converting the poor into computer users. But Negroponte's idea is to spread computers to the poor, with the help of heavy subsidies from private and public philanthropy. His price is still about $140, too high for India. Indeed India rejected Negroponte's offer of a million for cost reasons. Jain's motive is different: he wants to make money.

Novatium being one of the the 100 selected companies was invited to present at the Red Herring Venture Market Asia conference, August 28-30 in Hong Kong in front of 300 c-level executives from potential partners, investors, and clients. Alok Singh, CEO shared with this key leaders' audience the company's vision and mission and various initiatives it has under taken.

The detailed print story on Novatium profile could be found in the MSNBC New.com on Feb. 12, 2007.

Red Herring magazine on August 18
Red Herring 100 Asia 2006 Winners.

The Red Herring Asia 2006 was organised with a view to finding the next wave of companies that are successfully challenging the industry with their innovative technologies and smart business models.

Read more

CNET News.com - Mar 3, 2005
Indian start-up shows off its alternative to
high-price PCs - by Michael Kanellos

CNET News.com Editor-at-Large Michael Kanellos interviews Vinod Gopinath of Novatium Solutions, a start-up in Chennai, India, that has a tiny solution to a major problem in poor countries.

Read more

ZDnet - March 13, 2006
Novatium's $100 thin client PC
Posted by Dan Farber

At PC Forum Novatium Solutions demoed its $100 PC appliance (without keyboard or display, which adds about $75) for emerging markets.

Read more

Business Today - Mar 26, 2006
Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest
By Nitya Varadarajan

Novatium's Net PC and Net TV are not quite your regular low-cost, sub-10k computers.

Read more

CNET News.com - June 29, 2005
India's Tech Renaissance
by Michael Kanellos

The outsourcing boom that has transformed this country's economy can be traced in part to a technology discovery made in 1995.

Read more

Business 2.0 - Aug 1, 2005
The Next PC Revolution will be Televised
by Om Malik

It uses less power than a night-light and plugs into a TV. Best of all, as the first $100 computer, it's affordable enough to propel the rest of the world into the digital age.

Read more