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How easy it’s to start browsing a web site on your mobile browser? Launch the browser, type the address (how many clicks?), go! Well, if you want people to visit your web site; you have to make it easier to access. Many people will be way too lazy to type your address (especially if it’s long), if you want traffic, you have to make it dead simple. Then the question is: How? Now there is a new and handy tool for anyone to create website launchers for popular Symbian phones with WRT (Web Runtime Widget) support online.

1. Go to Website Launcher Generator

2. Specify your launcher widget’s name

3. Specify the URL to be launched

4. If you have one, upload an icon for the widget

5. Optionally, change the widget’s version number, and its unique ID

6. Click “Generate!” and download your new widget

Kudos to Alessandro, now we can offer our visitors to access our web site with one click from application menu.

On top of my wish-list; I have J2ME support, where you can create a J2ME based launcher for your website, which would let us to reach much more phones.

Pikkoo introduces interactive Live Screensavers and partners with Foreca to bring weather-cast of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers

Oulu, Finland, 30th June 2009 – Pikkoo, an innovative Finnish startup, today introduced the ground breaking Live Screensaver concept, streaming information to mobile devices without ever pushing a button. Using Pikkoo Live Screensavers, mobile users will not only be served up-to-date information anytime, anywhere without a need to launch an application, but also will be able to interact with their screensaver just as any other mobile application.

With the introduction, the first live screensaver is launched in partnership with Foreca, leading Finnish digital weather service company. Foreca Live Weather Screensaver will bring up-to-date, geographic-specific weather information of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers. Users will also be able to get detailed information from foreca.mobi, the most comprehensive mobile weather service, using the screensaver.

“Here at Foreca, we’re very excited to offer such a novel concept to our audience together with Pikkoo. With an ever increasing demand from the mobile audience for accurate, up-to-date weather information; it will be possible for Foreca to bring weather-cast into everyone’s pocket with minimum effort” says Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development, Foreca.

Utilizing Adobe Flash® Lite™ and its own proprietary technologies, Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers are able to brings contextual content to mobile devices, reducing information delivery to the simplest form possible for today’s mobile devices.

“Why should you launch an application to access information, while information could be served right in front of you?” asks Mr. Ugur Kaner, CEO of Pikkoo. “Our partnership with Foreca is one great example of how weather information could be brought to users, without users needing to go and get themselves. Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers can similarly be applied to a multitude of uses to a variety of industries as a value-added service that can capture any mobile user today.” he continues.

For more information, visit www.pikkoo.com/foreca-live-weather-screensaver.html or contact Pikkoo.

About Pikkoo

Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009. Pikkoo launched private beta in November 2008, and opened to the public in May 2009.  For more information, go to http://www.pikkoo.com

About Foreca Ltd.

Foreca Ltd. is a full-scale weather company based in Helsinki, Finland. Foreca has more than ten years of experience of forecasting weather and providing internet and mobile weather services. Foreca specializes in weather services for digital media and especially mobile devices. Foreca’s first commercial mobile weather service was launched already in 1997, and it is still steady revenue creator. Thanks to its world-wide partner network Foreca is able to provide accurate weather information for any market. Today, Foreca’s mobile weather services have users across all continents. For more information please visit http://corporate.foreca.com

About Adobe® Flash® Lite™

Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content. Flash Lite has shipped on 1 billion devices (40% of all new handsets in 2008) and will reach more than 2.5 billion devices by the end of 2010.

Contact Info

Pikkoo Ltd.
Mr. Endale Mitiku, VP Marketing & Sales
Tel: +358 443 19 1259
Email: dale[at]pikkoo[d.t]com
Adress: Pakkahuoneenkatu 12 A, 90100, Oulu, Finland

Foreca Ltd.
Mr. Tuomo Kolehmainen, Business Manager, Channels
Tel. +358 44 3300646
Email: tuomo.kolehmainen[at]foreca[d.t]com
Address: Tammasaarenkatu 5, FI-00180, Finland

via Pikkoo blog

Just back from London Smartphone Show 2008 with a great award in my hand from a jury of Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Navteq, Orange and Symbian. Instead of pitching SWFPack (as I mentioned before), I pitched Kuneri and our next and the biggest product Pikkoo, which we will be announced soon. Feedback was very positive and am happy we got a success from our first ever meeting with big corporations. Let’s see how second round goes next week.

We always believe in our ideas and products, as all companies (should) do. However your ‘great’ might not be that ‘great’ in reality or to others.

To challenge ourselves, we applied to pitch SWFPack – our online Flash Lite packaging tool – at SpeedNet@DevFest challenge which will take place in Symbian Smartphone Show 2008 in London. Couple days back I got the news that our product was found interesting and we were selected from a competitive group of entries and welcomed to pitch to an audience composed of Forum Nokia, Samsung, MOTODEV, UIQ, Navteq, Orange and key Symbian decision makers. I am personally excited to test myself and our product in front of such an audience and surely for the possible feedback and business opportunities that might create.

What is SpeedNet@DevFest?

SpeedNet@DevFest will provide companies or individuals with the opportunity to pitch their products and services.

Format

Each pitcher will be allocated 5 minutes to present using either product demos or Powerpoint. Audience members will move from table to table every 5 minutes and will receive contact information for each presenter at the beginning of the session.

Audience

SpeedNet@DevFest will be attended by representatives from Forum Nokia, Samsung, MOTODEV, UIQ, Navteq and Orange and key Symbian decision makers.

Guys behind Joiku, our distribution and promotional partner, have done a great job and brought a new innovation to S60 world. Meet JoikuSpot; a free, instant and easy way to turn your S60 smartphone into a portable Wi-Fi router!

JoikuSpot is a free mobile software solution that turns Nokia Smartphones to WLAN HotSpots.

JoikuSpot software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops and ipods can establish instant and fast wireless internet connection via smartphone’s JoikuSpot access point using phone’s own 3G internet connection.

Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.

Thanks to Miky from mobileDesign.it for publishing his great Valentines day Flash Lite screensaver on KISS60.

Enjoy!

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

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

Gideon Multimedia launches innovative free mobile travel quide mobiEXPLORE Croatia. It is available for S60 (2nd and 3rd edition), Series40 and PocketPC devices.

I just installed it and liked it a lot! Very stylish and good design, must say.

Read complete press release of product launch here.