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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

I2fly released an interactive Flash lite Indian travel guide on “Mysore Dasara” for mobile devices under the Brand of EMO.ZINE.

A compact Mobile travel guide with easy access to all information like:

• What is this festival ?
• Time to visit.
• Weather conditions.
• How to reach by rail, road and air.
• Ticket discounts to save money when you visit this city during the festival.
• Hotel & Travel agents.
• Beautiful picture gallery to see how festival looks.
• Other places surrounding city which are interesting to see.
• News and updates: regarding traffic conditions and routes which updates time to time.
• Events update.

Finally each section includes highlight mark for important things to know and many tips for travel and visit.

I tested it on my and it looks great! Good graphics, smooth effects. For more details and for a free download, click here.

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

Penrillian annouces their new SIS package creation tool.

Penrillian is pleased to announce a tool to make installer files out of your own content. It takes files from your PC, and creates SIS files that will install them in the user-visible file system on each phone.

It supports UIQ 3, Series 60 Edition 3, UIQ 2, and Series 60 Edition 2. It runs on MS Windows and requires .NET 3.0.

Use Penrillian Packager for whatever you will – the applications are limited only by your imagination:

* Create suites of music tracks to install and play.
* Install albums of photos, or videos
* Distribute books written with browser markup (WML, HTML, etc).

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We are proud to announce the launch of Adobe User Group Northern Finland: Augnofi!

We aim to create a warm, active and creative community on the top of the world, spreading our energy to the rest of the world. Global contests, live and online seminars, cool workshops and interviews with the experts from the heart of mobile technology are in our future program.

Spread the word; don’t forget to check it out and join! All welcome!

[Here is the quick link for the list]

It’s essential for every mobile developer to know their target mobile device profiles. This is the only way to ensure effective and reliable development plan and easier porting. That’s also been an issue for us and we often needed to collect technical information for all target devices we aim and up now did that manually combining different resources.

Flash Lite development and porting can be considered as ‘less complicated’ compared to Java and Symbian based platforms. However, that doesn’t change the reality that there is always the need to port. Especially after Nokia introduced S60 3rd edition devices, porting for Flash Lite got little more complicated, compared to S60 2nd edition’s (almost) the same 176×208 display size and specifications for most of the devices. One can claim here that; Flash Lite can scale and fit into different screens easily and that’s why Flash Lite is Flash Lite. Yes, that is true at first sight, however, unfortunately the fact that ‘it can’ doesn’t mean ‘it does’ well. Depending on the application, development will vary, and not everything will be displayed as expected or will perform good when they are scaled. Therefore, the only reasonable solution is to create different versions of the product for different possible screen sizes by defining target devices well and preparing a robust design to ease the pain of porting. To gain more insight about this issue, you can check Dale Rankine’s ‘Quickly create multiple versions of your Flash Lite content‘ article on Adobe web site.

Considering these facts and possible future needs, we prepared a list for developers to have a reference when developing Flash Lite applications. Initially there are only Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices, however, we hope to extend the list further with your help. Please register to our forum, and contribute to Flash mobile device list for developers. There is also performance information for all devices, which will be filled with tests performed by us and other developers.

When you visit the list, you will see some devices are in bold. Bold means that there is a confliction between Adobe and Nokia’s Flash Lite specifications or global knowledge. We hope to clarify these question marks to avoid future misleads for developers. If you happen to have a reliable information about these models, please add your comment on our forum.

We recently got the news that Adobe announced a public beta of Photoshop CS3 together with Device Central. Hopefully this will be a global solution for Flash mobile developers and eliminate further needs in future when things get more complicated with more devices available. However until then, we need clear and reliable information to reduce development risks and reliable marketing.

Adobe announced Device Central beta integrated to Photoshop CS3 public beta release. Adobe Device Central software, an all-new integrated component of Adobe Photoshop CS3, is designed to boost the efficiency and productivity of creative professionals and mobile developers who design engaging content for mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. If you’re a Photoshop user or graphical designer and interested in creating content for your phone or other phones, Device Central is a great way to get started and experiment.

With this integrated version of Device Central, Adobe gives the insight about how they are working to improve mobile content development workflow. There is also an unofficial support page to help beta users with any questions.

• Quickly browse, search, and group device profiles
  Learn about mobile devices prior to designing mobile content through Adobe Device Central. Built-in mobile and device profiles contain detailed information on supported content types (Flash Lite, bitmap, web, and video) as well as phone performance and form factor specifications. Directly compare multiple mobile devices along these dimensions. Browse and search device profiles according to phone manufacturer, carrier, screen size, and more. Group device profiles to create target device sets for mobile projects.

• Preview and test mobile content on the desktop
  Easily preview how your mobile content will look on each device in the context of mobile phone skins. Simulate mobile backlight and sunlight reflections to tune your content for different lighting conditions. Display your mobile designs in these same device skins to pitch or present work to clients from your desktop. Test and optimize your mobile content from Adobe Photoshop CS3 using the now extended “Save for Mobile & Devices” dialog.

• Obtain free and regularly published device profile updates
  Adobe will provide free updates of device profiles on a regular basis after Photoshop CS3 ships in spring 2007, as new mobile devices appear in the market. Device profiles will be available through both the Adobe Update Manager and www.adobe.com. Initially, Adobe Device Central will include select profiles for both mobile phones and consumer electronic devices that have been certified by Adobe for Flash Lite . Updated device profiles plug into Adobe Device Central and enable the same functionalities as built-in device profiles.

• Start a new mobile project in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
  Set up new documents in Adobe Photoshop CS3 tuned for mobile devices. Quickly switch from existing “New…” document and preset workflows to Device Central to specify your target devices and other relevant settings. Alternatively, start a new mobile document directly from within Device Central. Blank documents for mobile devices are created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 once you click on the “Create” button.

via Bill

Don’t miss Adobe’s speciall offer for Flash Professional 8 and Studio 8 until the end of January 2007. You can save 15% on these products. Create and sell engaging Flash mobile content today!

It needs better announcement on the site, very easy to miss (looks like hidden). We just bought one Studio 8, and of course were not aware of that campaign. So, we missed, you don’t miss;)

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