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Nokia Press release: Starcut’s video streaming service available for Nokia devices on www.nokia.mobi

Medeo - video streaming service sponsored by ads, can accessed via www.nokia.mobi.

The content available on Medeo will focus on popular entertainment centers like Hollywood, with additional content from hot red carpet events like the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals. The service is expected to gain an even wider global audience with eventual outreach into other significant entertainment locations.

Wow, we are amazed by the interest you show to KISS60, thanks! It’s been just 2 days since the beta release, but KISS60 is downloaded by many and we got many great comments! Also KISS60 has been on great blogs like Symbian Freak , IntoMobile and biskero, which gave us a great pleasure. Thank you all Flash Lite and S60 lovers!

KISS60^TM enables Adobe® Flash® Lite^TM screensavers on a wider set of devices, offering more effective promotions for campaign managers and higher revenues for content developers and distributors.

October 24, 2007

Oulu, Finland – Kuneri, innovative mobile design and development company based in Finland, today unveiled public beta release of their new product KISS60^TM. KISS60^TM is a unique product, enabling users to collect, manage, share and enjoy Adobe® Flash® Lite^TM screensavers on S60 based mobile devices.

“There are 50 million Flash Lite enabled S60 devices, but most of them can not utilize Flash Lite screensavers although they have the capability; that’s a large potential loss” says Ugur Kaner, CEO of Kuneri. “Flash Lite offers a better user experience than traditional screensavers, we believe there is a good market potential. We aim to help mobile campaign managers and Flash Lite content developers and distributors to benefit this potential by utilizing KISS60.”

“We use mobile screensavers to promote International Mobile Gaming Awards and KISS60 helps us to reach more people; clearly adding value to our promotions” says Jessica Rei, PR Manager of IMGA. “KISS60 is not only a great tool, but also a very handy widget to use in daily life, we absolutely enjoy it” she continues.

KISS60^TM is an S60 application created using KuneriLite^TM Rapid Application Development toolkit for Adobe® Flash® Lite^TM, and works on all S60 3^rd edition and newer Nokia devices. KISS60^TM has a very user friendly and simple interface, allowing users to create their own screensaver collections, download new screensavers easily and share using SMS or Bluetooth®. KISS60^TM is free of charge and can be downloaded from www.KISS60.com . IMGA screensavers are also available on KISS60^TM website and www.imgawards.com .

About Kuneri

Kuneri Ltd. is an innovative mobile design and development company based in Oulu, Finland. Kuneri creates mobile products, offers expert services to enterprises and provides tools for mobile developers on Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and Symbian S60 platforms. Kuneri is a privately held company founded in 2006.

Media Enquiries:

Kuneri Ltd.

Tel: +358 400 22 5958

Email: hello[at]kuneri[d.t]net

www.kuneri.net

www.KISS60.com

The International Mobile Gaming Awards, the largest competition for talented mobile game developers worldwide, sees improvements in mobile games development worldwide.

SAN FRANCISCO October 23. The Judges from the International Mobile Games Awards (IMGA) have shortlisted the 25 titles from 224 game developers across 42 countries who are competing to be the most innovative unpublished game of 2007.

The IMGA is the leading annual competition for mobile games which rewards the most talented games designers and companies for innovation in design and technology. This is an industry led initiative sponsored by major players in the industry including Adobe Movida, Nokia (main sponsors) and AMD, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. The preliminary judging process was completed in Marseille in the Belle de Mai. The results of these deliberations are announced today with a shortlist of 25 games in 5 different categories:

Excellence in Gameplay

Excellence in Connectivity

Excellence in 3D

Best IP-based game

Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)

Each of the 392 games were unpublished titles at time of submission and came from all across the globe. 45% of these entries came from Europeans, 26% came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world. The selection of the nominees is the result of two judging rounds. On the 3rd of October 20 judges based in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, the USA, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK have reviewed the entries. Based on their scores, the IMGA staff has determined a top 100. On the 5th of October 10 jury members have gathered in Marseille, France to review the top 100 and to determine which games are to be shortlisted for the IMGA 2007. The final Judging process will take place in February and requires the nominees to supply fully playable versions of their games by 28th January.

“The quality of this year’s submission was extremely high. We are pleased to see that the studios have invested more time in presenting their games better. The judges have had a very difficult task this year to select the nominees out of such a wealth of quality games. We hope that publishers and operators will pick these games up so they will reach the consumers, because we are convinced that consumers deserve the quality and game play that we discovered in this year’s edition.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.

The full shortlist of 25 nominees can be reviewed on www.imgawards.com and on Monday 22nd of October the public will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite game. This special award will be given at the final award ceremony in February. Further details of the IMGA Ceremony in February will be released separately.

CONTACT:

The International Mobile Gaming Awards

PR and Marketing

Jessica Rei

jessica@imgawards.com

tel: +33 491315217

All nominated games can be reviewed at www.imgawards.com/2007_nominees.php

Everybody is invited to register and vote for its favorite game !

A cool interactive Flash Lite 2.x Halloween screensaver from Rob.

- The light inside the pumpkin represents your handsets battery level. The pumpkin will be luminant when you have a full charge, it will diminish as your battery drains.

- The background represents your handsets time of day. When you are past 6am, the daylight scene is displayed. When you are past 6pm, the night-time scene is displayed (keep an eye out for the creepy owl).

Probably it’s Flash Lite contest season;

SWX contest by Aral;

Create any cool experiment, site, application, and/or mashup that uses SWX RPC, either with SWX PHP or without writing any server-side code at all by using the SWX APIs on the Public SWX Gateway. You can choose to use the SWX ActionScript Library (recommended) or go native with loadMovie()!

All entries must play back in the Flash Player (SWX RPC is supported on Flash Player 6 and above, and Flash Lite 2.x). You cannot use SWX RPC with ActionScript 3/Flash 9/Flex 2 projects at the moment (a version for AVM2 is in the works.)

Mobile Contest in association with Playoo;

Are you a Flash games developer? Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, hobbyist or professional, you can put your Flash Lite games in front of a big audience, with the chance to build a following. Start now by entering the launch contest, and you can also win significant prizes.

Since the 24th of September 6 pm, the International Mobile Gaming Awards is closed for entries and prepares for the judging session, which will take place in Marseille next week. Before this, an international panel of judges, based in Japan, China, Korea, USA, France, UK, Germany and Italy will make a first pre-selection of the 80 best games.

These pre-selected games will then be presented in front of an international jury who gathers in a room in Marseille for a full day of judging. They will select five nominees in each of the 5 categories:

Excellence in Gameplay
Excellence in Connectivity
Excellence in 3D
Best IP-based game
Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)

This year, the IMGA has focused on unpublished games and has requested more work and support material from developers as in the previous years. Despite these important restrictions the IMGA has received almost 400 entries from 33 countries. 45% of all entries came in from Europe, with the UK as the largest number of entries. 26% of the entries came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world.

“This edition is showing a further growth in professionalism and quality worldwide and some astonishing innovations that we can’t wait to disclose to a wider audience, after the judging sessions. We have seen new work of both
the established studios as of small studios and individuals. Excellent work came in from all over the world in all categories: amazing 3D games, clever connected games, cross platform games, but also many Flash games looking a
lot better than the ones we saw last year.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.

The IMGA is sponsored by Adobe, Movida, Nokia and co-sponsored by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Belle-de-Mai Media Park, Marseille and AMD.

Biskero posts interesting news about new innovative Flash Lite Application.

Realeyes3D, a leading provider of mobile imaging applications for camera phone users, today announced the launch of Magic Wanda™. Magic Wanda is the first camera phone messaging application that allows users to create and share their own unique animated photo messages directly on the handset in Adobe Flash Lite™ format – without requiring a server.

MagicWanda is animated UGC for camera phones
- Provide a fun, easy way for users to create and share animated User Generated Content
- Leverage Flash-enabled handsets to offer animated UGC creation for messaging and blogging
- Take advantage of current craze for photo decorating and personalization

Read complete press release from here.

New Flash Lite application from Breakdesign for Johnnie Walker & Sons company.
Looks very promising!

Application is not yet available for downloading, but watch the video.

“Loaded onto the mobile phone of loyal Johnnie Walker drinkers, the Digital Personal Assistant serves up branded content, special offers and invitations to exclusive member-only events, creating and omni-present, always-connected location-aware digital window to consumers.”

Mark Ollila, co-founder of Telco Games and Nokia’s Director of Technology & Strategy for Games and Multimedia, answers 5 questions of Digital Media Wire on mobile games. Here is the full interview.

Dr. Mark Ollila, Nokia’s Director of Technology & Strategy for Games and Multimedia sat down with DMW for five questions about the mobile games space. As one of the world leaders in mobile technology with its N-series products, Nokia is poised to be among the major influencers of the space over the next several years. We discussed some of the things going well in mobile gaming, and some of the challenges that remain.