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Another great news from Kuneri. We are very proud to be globally recognized (once again) and take our place among 8 other most innovative companies in the world selected by Nokia with KuneriLite. See the complete press release by Nokia.

Nokia today announced the selection of nine additional mobile application developers from Asia, Europe and the Americas to expand its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program.  The program provides select small- and mid-sized developers with business and market support while showcasing their next generation mobile applications and services for consumer and business audiences worldwide.

The nine exceptional companies recognized today join an initial group of six North American and two European developers chosen in the third quarter of 2008 to participate in the Innovation Series Program. The latest program participants address a broad spectrum of applications, including mobile voice reminders, data protection and device security solutions, point-to-point travel navigation, Adobe® Flash® Lite(TM) mobile content for sales and marketing, and reward-based advertising over mobile devices.

Developers chosen to participate in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program cleared multiple selection hurdles over the course of the past year as part of the Innovation Series selection process, which included internal Nokia reviews and the screening of application features and functionality by consumer focus groups around the world. Each participant in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series was required to demonstrate that their application or service provided specific benefits to Nokia mobile device users not otherwise available, and that a clear market demand existed for such a solution.

Mobile Summit, Stockholm – 28th October 2008 – Kuneri, the leading Finnish mobile innovation company, today announced the closed beta availability of their groundbreaking product Pikkoo — a social community for anyone to download, create and share rich mobile screensavers and wallpapers for free.

Mobile screensavers and wallpapers are very popular, reaching millions of screens every day; however the technology is very old and does not offer any functionality. Utilizing Adobe Flash Lite and Kuneri technologies, Pikkoo makes personalization and interaction possible, supporting all handsets available today. Using Pikkoo, anyone can easily design their own content, then share it with their friends via popular social utilities like Facebook and MySpace.

“We have been creating innovative enabling mobile technologies for developers. Now it’s time for us to use it for ourselves and show how powerful they can be.” says Ugur Kaner, CEO of the Finnish company.  “Pikkoo is not only a novel online platform providing mobile content to end users, but also a unique marketing channel for brands and creative marketers. Imagine your brand in front of a person for more than 20 times a day. That’s what we call high impression.” he continues.

Pikkoo is available on an invitation basis and expected to be publicly available before the end of 2008. Downloading, creating and sharing content is free of charge. With the first release, a selection of widgets such as time, date or battery/signal strength data can be served with the content; followed by RSS and location based data in the following  releases. Furthermore, easy content management and distribution channels are available for different platforms starting with Symbian S60.

More information can be found by visiting www.pikkoo.com or contacting Kuneri.

About Kuneri

Kuneri Ltd. is a mobile innovation company based in Oulu, Finland. Kuneri creates cutting edge mobile applications and enabling technologies; highlighting user interface, interaction and innovation utilizing Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and Symbian S60 platforms. Kuneri is a privately owned company founded in 2006.

Media Inquiries

Kuneri Ltd.
Tel. +358 400 22 5958
Email: pr@kuneri.net
www.kuneri.net

Oulu, Finland – 9th October 2008 – Kuneri, the leading mobile innovation company, today announced the public beta release of their newest product SWFPack, an online mobile development tool for Flash Lite developers. This release is a milestone for the company carrying mobile development to the web.

Flash Lite is the emerging mobile technology of Adobe, estimated to reach one billion devices in 2009. Content created for this technology needs to be packaged as installers for distribution. Packaging has been a hassle on Windows, and impossible on other operating systems. Kuneri’s SWFPack is a novel online service offering a cross platform, zero-install and easy to use Web 2.0 solution.

“We have a vision to make things simpler for mobile application developers. In this way they can focus on the content quality and better user experience. SWFPack is the first milestone on our roadmap and will be followed by a series of other innovations” says Ugur Kaner, CEO of the Finnish company.

SWFPack is available as a beta service for Flash Lite developers without a cost. With the first release, Flash Lite content can be deployed to Symbian devices in SIS format, followed by Series 40 devices in NFL and Windows Mobile devices in CAB formats in the following releases. Kuneri aims to make SWFPack a standard tool, providing more enhanced features in the future. More information can be found by visiting www.swfpack.com

About Kuneri

Kuneri Ltd. is a mobile innovation company based in Oulu, Finland. Kuneri creates cutting edge mobile applications and enabling technologies; highlighting user interface, interaction and innovation utilizing Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and Symbian S60 platforms. Kuneri is a privately owned company founded in 2006.

Media Enquiries

Kuneri Ltd.
Pakkahuoneenkatu 12 A, 90100, Oulu/Finland
+358 400 22 5958
pr@kuneri.net
www.kuneri.net

Adobe Mobile Products to Ship with Windows Mobile Phones

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.

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 !

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:

• The touch user interface in S60 smartphone
• Motion and orientation to proximity and light, sensor technology is expanding
• New UI Accelerator toolkit
• Complete Web video experience as Flash Video

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 3^rd 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