Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Snake bites Apple

Snake and Ladder is an exciting traditional Indian game much played among the young and old alike. Now we have brought you this popular board game on your iPhone and iTouch.

The Snake and Ladder game was developed by Travancore Analytics, a Technopark, based company involved in the development of Software in the areas of Imaging Technology and Image Processing.

The Snake and ladder game developed by Travancore analytics has been the most favorite free-download in Apple store. This game has had 250,000 downloads in the last week, which is the highest for an iPhone application developed by any Indian Software company. More than 70% of the downloads are from Canada, UK and US.

Apple Corporation, the sought-after computer and software maker, allows users to access different software through its virtual market place called ‘App Store’. This free version of the game allows the user to be one of the players, while the iPhone itself takes the role of the second player. At present this Snake and Ladder application occupies the No-1 position in 12 App Stores worldwide.

Mr. T Harikumar, who is working as the CEO and Mr. Baas Mannarsala who is presently the CTO founded Travancore Analytics. . Products aimed at assisting radio diagnosis like detection of Breast Cancer, Analysis of Tumor, Wound Healing, etc. are on the development stage at the Travancore Analytics center in Technopark.

Group of Technopark Companies (GTech) in a press release said that Kerala based IT companies are evolving as strategic players providing cutting edge Solutions to Global Companies for sustaining their competitiveness.

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