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Many of KuneriLite Commercial clients create cutting edge mobile solutions for theirselves or their valuable clients. Although we provide free support (said to be fantastic) on Kuneri Forums, they usually need an intensive care and confidentiality to make their projects a real success case.

Until August 2008, we used to provide direct support for many of our enterprise clients. Starting from August 2008, we no more take direct email support inquiries, but offering Exclusive Service Packages, which means unlimited support for a certain period of time, to our valuable clients. We have been glad to support you until now and we are happy to take our support further by offering an enterprise level service.

Looks like a great opportunity for European entrepreneurs for funding, networking even for challenging their business plans. It offers 50K Euro for 5 teams for 10% stake, which is definitely not bad if you are just a startup with a good idea, but (almost) no money.

Interesting statistics from M:Metrics . Although it mostly focuses on mobile games, it’s still possible to extract other interesting details about Flash Lite devices, US / Europe comparison and user demographics.

14 Million - Number of British people who browse, download or use a mobile application

Brits are clearly one of the most active mobile device users in Europe. Although the number looks quite optimistic, but can we use it on any generalization for Europe?

28% - 3G penetration in US and Europe (almost)

Having 3G doesn’t mean that you use it. Although US is very good at flat rate, European users still suffer from high price levels. Might this also mean that European users buy 3G in conscious?

5% - Europeans with flat rate data plan

Where, 15% for US. Might look like US is ahead, but considering the population (Europe is almost 2.5 times more crowded than US), it’s almost the same.

Would it be possible to say US people are much better consumers than Europeans? What I observed is Europeans are not very easy going to purchase something compared to US. Although these figures show US and Europe almost same for 3G and flat rate penetration, I am still not sure if it’s possible to do profitable data dependent business in Europe.

27% - European people with Flash Lite enabled handsets

Where this is 16% for US. This makes a clear distinction of Flash Lite penetration between Europe and US. With these figures Europe looks like a better place to do business on Flash Lite (if you are not in Japan). That’s no surprise considering in Europe Nokia and SE penetration is much better than US. However, is quantity give us a clue about quality? I have the impression that US market makes more money out of Flash Lite content than Europe, due these content is pushed by operators, rather than handset makers. This makes me think that even figures are low for US, US would still be much more convenient for paid content; where Europe would be perfect for advertising supported content services with Flash Lite.

I am little skeptic about the Flash Lite figures; due I am not sure if M:Metrics counted N70 within Flash Lite enabled handsets. Although it’s Flash Lite enabled, player doesn’t come out of the box, which takes N70 and similar popular handsets out of the picture. If N70 is in this 27%, reality would be much less, considering N70 is the still most popular handset in Europe.

Looking at the figures, market seems to improve. This is no surprise. Everyday more Flash Lite devices are shipped by Nokia or Sony Ericsson (or other S60 licensees). My missing piece is a raw model showing Flash Lite can make money outside of Japan.

These are my personal opinions after reading the article. Mark has much more optimistic approach to these figures. I might be missing some other important points, but would be happy to discuss more. I am always up to figure out and expose the real potential in markets.

Ugur.-

Here is a nice post from Bill;

Based on all of the positive feedback from my session I’m posting my presentation here for download (5 MB PDF). There’s some new information in my presentation that’s pertinent to Flash Lite developers and business decision makers. I’ll extract some of these details and make separate blog posts today/tomorrow.

Proud to see Aniway, another Finnish company mentioned among other cool Flash Lite companies around the world. Surely could be better if they marked on Finland instead of Sweden though:)

Here is the inspiring story of Moket. Amazing job that Dale has done, congratulations!

Dale Rankine, a business-savvy Australian and veteran interactive content developer, is a likely role model for mobile developers everywhere. In less than a year, his firm Moket has grown from a one-person development shop to an eight-person team that builds and deploys customized mobile applications.

Apple’s is a true marketing genius. 500.000 iPhones sold in 72 hours! According to analyst, Blackfriars, which has been monitoring stores, claimed that sales should top 500,000 for the first weekend.

The bottom line: some analysts claimed that the iPhone launch would be a failure if Apple failed to sell 100,000 iPhones during the first weekend. Based upon the limited data we have, we believe that number was exceeded in just the first two to three hours. Blackfriars’ prediction is that Apple will sell 500,000 iPhones this weekend, and based upon limited sales rates reported, that number now looks quite achievable. The only question is whether the demand and iPhone supply is great enough that they might push past the million unit mark this weekend.

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Nokia today announced its new Launchpad mobile software developer offering for the broad range of software developer companies seeking a fast-track for creating applications that target the millions of devices based on Nokia mobile platforms in the market today. It has 800 euros annual fee. Read the full press release.

Nokia is very pleased to offer Launchpad to any software developer company seeking to build mobile applications and services for the growing global smartphone market, said Lee Epting, Vice President, Forum Nokia. By addressing the particular needs of these developers through Launchpad, both in terms of technology access and support, we will be helping them accelerate their development cycle to bring new and exciting applications to Nokia mobile platforms.

Dale calls for Flash Lite animations to distribute through Moket Content Network. If you have some animated Flash Lite content that you keep under your pillow and would like to turn them into cash, contact Dale.

The MCN is now looking for more Flash Lite content to feed into this large global pipeline. We are looking for high quality Flash Lite animations that can be used for screensavers, wallpapers or animated ringtones - right now! These animations need to be very creative and of a high visual standard, ready to catch the imagination of a global market that are used to animated GIFS for personalisation content!

I watched No Plan, No Capital, No Model… No Problem video on Guy Kawasaki’s blog recently. It is almost 2 hours of talk about start ups that neither has a business plan nor a business model with a capital between $0 to $100K and succeeded that well you cold not expect. Especially the story of PlentyOfFish touched me very bad :) I highly recommend you to watch this video and listen what these guys say; it’s very motivating and pushes your buttons of motivation and courage.

I’ve moderated many panels in my time, and if I had to choose one that entrepeneurs should watch, this is it. If you’re one guy/gal or two guys/gals in a garage, it will push all the right buttons, and you’ll love it. However, if your plan is to raise several million dollars from venture capitalists and then hire five engineers, one vp of biz dev, one CTO, two testers, and a vp of marketing to ship a product in a year, you probably shouldn’t spend your time watching it.

Alessandro leaded the way to Flash Mobile and Devices group on LinkedIn. If you already use LinkedIn and would like to expand your network with Flash Lite developers, please join.