Shumbi, an electronics management software manufacturer, reportedly launched an advanced tool intended to perform search, aggregation, clustering, annotation and collaboration functions, called the “Shumbi Discover.”

While unveiling the Shumbi Discover, CEO Justin Staines said the tool  lets users do extensive Web searching, and then annotate and share those search results.

“The software uses a number of multi-touch gestures, such as pinch, flick and multiple finger,” Staines said in a statement. “It works on XP, Vista and Windows 7 and will soon be available on Mac OSX."

Wacom, a Japanese pen tablet manufacturer, bought the OEM license of the Shumbi Discover. Under the agreement, Wacom Europe GmbH, the subsidiary of Japanese Wacom Company Ltd, will sell its variant of the Shumbi Discover  - called Bamboo Explorer - along with its latest range of Bamboo pen tablets in the key regions of Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The company’s second generation of Bamboo tablets is the first to incorporate interactive, multi touch technology into their cutting-edge pen tablet in one simple piece of equipment.  

The Shumbi Discover has received several patents, including GB0914723.2 and GB0914269.6 among others, which safeguard the integrated algorithms governing its multi gesture functionality and unique design execution. The product utilizes a .NET (News - Alert) clustering locomotive. This was independently created in association with Carrot Search. The .NET clustering engine is derived from a Lingo open source model and its structure is borrowed from a Java clustering engine. Carrot Search is expected to widely make available the basic infrastructure of the .NET variant so that other developers can benefit from its release.

Initially, the Shumbi Discover will be commercially distributed as both a free and a paid variant. The free version will not have all the value-added features as the paid version. The paid variant will be feature rich and be completely loaded with all its functionalities. This product will be sold in a white label branded format by OEMs like Wacom. The company is also planning to offer some rewards in the form of discounts to users who wish to escalate to the paid OEM variant after making use of the free version.

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