202:. In 1992, Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California. As CEO and as a computer scientist, Nag oversaw the emergence of Lexicus as an industry pioneer of speech and predictive technology systems and saw the acquisition of Lexicus by Motorola in November 1993. As a subsidiary of Motorola, Lexicus introduced some of the first devices with Chinese handwriting and speech recognition. In 1999, he founded Cellmania, a mobile infrastructure company that provided digital rights management for mobile content, enabling the creation of some of the first mobile app stores. Cellmania was sold to Research in Motion, now
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