Kuneri bloggy

Do you remember our How to Draw N95 8GB using MS Paint KuneriLite viral video on YouTube?  It’s been more than 8 months we released this unique piece of art and it received 25.000 unique views in 1 month after the first release. Recently, we started to receive mass amounts of comments to the video, and saw that it got more than 10.000 views in less than a week, moreover featured as #1 video in Hong Kong in Film & Animation category. “Wow” was our first reaction. Well, this is the power of a social/viral advertising, and the proof that a great art does not depend on time or die.

2008 has been very positive and great year for us, especially through the end. New products, projects, goods and bads. We hope it’s been as positive for you as it did to us, and wish 2009 brings even better for all of us, together with health and happiness!

We are happy to see Kuneri is featured with “Small mobile start-up with big success” article on Helsinki Times, an independent weekly newspaper covering news and events in Finland.

For such a small company, Kuneri is definitely attracting a lot of attention. Kuneri is an Oulu-based mobile innovation company known for its Flash Lite-oriented technologies. Earlier this year telecom giant Nokia chose Kuneri along with eight other companies to join its Forum Nokia Innovation Series. The company has come a long way in two years.

David interviewed me last week and article is already on the paper this week.

We have been working with Forum Nokia to create new resources for Flash Lite developers and designers, and Kuneri’s latest work is just got published on their portal. These are the very first resources addressing touch and key based issues with Flash Lite, therefore please let us know your comments and feedback here. If you like them, do not forget to rate them in the end of each document ;)

Flash Lite UI Design Guide for Keypad and Touch Devices

This document approaches the problem of making a single application available for both touch and keypad devices from both the developer and designer perspectives, briefly collecting knowledge related to Flash Lite UI design. This document addresses Nokia devices supporting Flash Lite instead of a specific platform, and the focus is on maintaining great user experience across all devices.

Sudokumaster – Designing a Flash Lite Game for Keypad and Touch Devices

This document discusses creating a basic Sudoku game to demonstrate the design and implementation of a Flash Lite application with dynamic layout control for multiple screen resolutions and input methods (key, touch, and key & touch).

Flash Lite Sudokumaster Example

This example application demonstrates how to design a simple Flash Lite Sudoku game, add dynamic layout control for multiple screen resolutions, and use several input methods (key, touch, and key & touch).

I just got an email from Antti about a short video clip from LeWeb’s backyard. In the video you can see Peter shortly interviewing Scred and Tommi joining them fresh-from-the-oven :)

For the video, jut follow the white rabbit

You possibly heard about LeWeb 2008, the 2 day conference in Paris bringing many interesting speakers and subjects aroung the Web 2.0. But you might not have heard that hottest Finnish startups are about to rock the conference in Finnish way: Sauna.

To promote the hotness of the Finnish Startups there will be a Sauna-Truck in Halle Aubervilliers right next to the conference hall. Sauna is the secret weapon of Finnish Startups – there are few innovations that Sauna can not improve. Sauna will be open for all Le Web participants during the conference. There will be special treats and revelations on both Tuesday and Wednesday from 4.30pm to 6.30pm.

Come to chat with hottest Finnish startups, enjoying a unique Sauna you might never see again. Check the list of the hot startups on ArcticStartup and we will be present among them with Pikkoo.

Symbian just released a white paper analysing the combination of different mobile development principals (C++, J2ME, Python, Flash Lite and Widgets). Apart from great projects such as Flyer Framework and Jarpa, KuneriLite is covered in “Flash Lite and C++” part extensively.

Check out the papers on Symbian Developer Network;

Part 1 : Bernd Wiegmann’s paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of runtime environments

Part 2: This paper is the second in a series examining how to build applications by mixing languages

After revamped interface of Forum Nokia is released to public recently, we are proud to see Pikkoo Screensaver Manager took it’s place among mobile applications that have exceptional user interface. Pikkoo Screensaver Manager is used to manage screesavers created on Pikkoo and developed using Flash Lite and KuneriLite, and is licensed KISS60 product.

For more information and other applications, check out Forum Nokia Design gallery.

Here is a simple example for to create a moving ball with Flash Lite using KuneriLite accelerometer plugin by Flash Lite Effort Project.

In this post we’ll see how to use accelerometer in Flash Lite with Kuneri Lite. We’ll do a small example of the moving ball application, however simpler than the original application.

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.