Adobe announces today that Microsoft has licensed Adobe® Flash® Lite™ to enable Flash Lite content within the Internet Explorer Mobile. Microsoft also licensed Adobe Reader® LE software for viewing Adobe’s PDF Documents.
Nokia today announces their plans to bring Microsoft’s Silverlight into S60 platform.
Silverlight is cross-platform plug-in for browser which competes with technologies like Adobe Flash and Flash Lite.
The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices, including S60 on Symbian smartphones from a range of manufacturers, as well as Nokia Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
Today S60 developers can use: C++ (using native Symbian OS APIs and Open C providing subset of standard POSIX libraries), S60 Web Run-time (supporting standards-based web technologies such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML), the Java(TM) language, Flash Lite from Adobe, and Python.
Nokia announced winners in Open C challenge developer contest:
MobiTubia Grand Prize Winner
Mobitubia lets you browse YouTube videos.
It is a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application, developed by Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkog from Thailand (received a cash prize of $10,000.). The developer ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS. Demo was really cool!
Other winners were LiveTraffic and MobiClass. (LiveTraffic is traffic assistance software and MobiClass is a virtual multi-media courseware application)
Gongratulations!
What is Open C all about:
Sponsored by Nokia’s global developer support program, Forum Nokia, in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge invited developer entrants to submit open source applications built for mobile or desktop environments and ported to S60 on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++ applications developed in the Open C environment.
Open C Plug-In lowers the barriers to entry and reduces the learning curve for developers porting an application’s logic and core components to the S60 platform. Utilizing eight standard C function libraries, Open C enables developers to more easily migrate a broad range of open source and desktop applications to Symbian OS.
More information.
KISS60TM enables Adobe® Flash® LiteTM 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 KISS60TM. KISS60TM is a unique product, enabling users to collect, manage, share and enjoy Adobe® Flash® LiteTM 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.
KISS60TM is an S60 application created using KuneriLiteTM Rapid Application Development toolkit for Adobe® Flash® LiteTM, and works on all S60 3rd edition and newer Nokia devices. KISS60TM 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®. KISS60TM is free of charge and can be downloaded from www.KISS60.com . IMGA screensavers are also available on KISS60TM 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
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 !
Nokia announces new features that will enhance the user experience in S60 smartphones in future. These technologies will be available for all S60 device manufacturers during 2008:
Complete press release: S60 smartphone software evolves to enrich the user experience.
Kuneri® unveils KuneriLite™ Rapid Application Development toolkit for Adobe® Flash® Lite™
October 11, 2007
Creating thrilling S60 applications made easy with KuneriLite™ Rapid Application Development toolkit for Adobe® Flash® Lite™
Oulu, Finland – Kuneri, innovative mobile design and development company based in Finland, today unveiled public beta release of their anticipated product KuneriLite™. KuneriLite™ is the very first global product, offering developers to create S60 mobile applications faster, easier and cheaper, without any Symbian programming knowledge.
“We have been developing for S60 platform for a long time and see the potential of Flash Lite very clearly” says Ugur Kaner, CEO of the Finnish company. “We see a gap between strength and user experience in mobile development, and aim to help developers to close this gap by using our tool. We believe KuneriLite will be very popular among developers, as it is very easy to use and learn, and leads to impressing results; bringing imagination into concrete in shorter time. We believe that, because we are mobile developers ourselves and understand developers’ needs very well as insiders. We also had a long alpha testing period and feedback we received supports our belief.”
KuneriLite™ extends Adobe® Flash® Lite™ capabilities on S60 platform and is supported on all S60 3rd edition and newer devices, covering increasing number of smartphones worldwide. There is a rich set of plug-ins available and also allows developers to develop their own plug-ins. KuneriLite™ comes with a very easy to use Wizard interface and guides developers to produce ready-to-install packages step by step. KuneriLite™ is completely invisible to end users and works out-of-the-box, not requiring any additional installations.
“We are proud to be a pioneer in global mobile development business.” says Kimmo Seppänen, Chief Marketing Officer of Kuneri. “We know that mobile content market is very tough. But we believe reduced development costs and time will help small enterprises to arise and provide a richer product set to end users. This definitely makes a difference.”
KuneriLite™ comes with 3 editions: Basic, Professional and Commercial. Basic edition is free to download and try. Professional edition meant for freeware productions, and also offered free of charge for non-commercial purposes. Commercial edition is offered for commercial projects and has a very developer friendly license and price. Further information about KuneriLite™ is available on KuneriLite™ web site; www.kunerilite.net.
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.kunerilite.net
“Wonderful Jaiku users,Exciting news, Jaiku is joining Google!
While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.
But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition.
Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders”
Nokia’s new business phone weights only 100g and it is even smaller size than 6120 Classic!
Some features to highlight:
Nokia E51 will be globally available during Q4 2007 with price around 350 EUR.
Complete press release here.
“The new Nokia 6555 features a smooth-back fold design and original analog timepiece”
Nokia annonced new 3G phone, which makes difference with its elegance high-end look. Press release toasts of phone’s new design of hinge, which gives smooth feeling of use.
6555 is S40 device, having QVGA 16M color screen and it costs only 200 eur. Certainly it will have Flash Lite player, but version is not known yet.
Check out the complete press release.
