K'taka: TCS receives Innovator Qualcomm grant

Bangalore, Feb 27: Leading developer and Innovator Qualcomm today announced a US dollar 100,000 grant to Tata Consultancy Services for development of applications to farmers and rural India using Code Division Multiple Access(CDMA) technology.

Qualcomm in a release said A TCS team of advanced technology and application would demonstrate how CDMA networks could help provide specific and useful advice to farmers and spread the benefits of technology deep into rural at an affordabal cost.

The TCS team headed by Dr Arun Pande had won the grant prize for their proposal from Qualcomm's BREW application funding programme.

As part of Qualcomm's wireless rech initiative US dollars one million Fund has been set up to increase the availability of useful wireless applicaitons in countries around the world, the release said.

It said for the grand prize Qualcomm would also apply additional funds to put TCS proposal into action through a new or existing wireless reach project.

UNI