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Plans for the Symbian Foundation and the evolution of Symbian OS™ as the leading, open platform for mobile innovation continue to receive strong support from companies throughout the mobile ecosystem. Among new supports are Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corporation, Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, TapRoot Systems and UIQ are adding their endorsement for the planned foundation.
Since June 2008, 40 companies have confirmed commitment to the initiative, including the ten initial board members: AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.
"The mobile phone industry is a very dynamic industry that continues to evolve and develop,” said Mats Lindoff, Sony Ericsson Chief Technology Officer, on behalf of the initial board members.
"As a long time member of the Symbian Platinum Partner Program, Acrodea is excited by plans for the Symbian Foundation," said Junya Tsutsumi, President & CEO of Acrodea.
"Brycen welcomes plans for the Symbian Foundation", said Masaru Fujiki, President and CEO of Brycen Co., Ltd.
“HI CORPORATION sincerely welcomes plans to establish the Symbian Foundation, which will unify the platform and enable leading-edge development for the mobile industry", said Kazuo Kawabate, President & CEO of HI CORPORATION.
"Ixonos welcomes plans for the Symbian Foundation and is committed to becoming a member," said Kari Liuska, Vice President, Business Operations at Ixonos Plc.
“KTF welcomes the Symbian Foundation initiative,” said Tae-Sook Ha, Vice President, Head of Terminal Laboratory in R&D Group.
"Symbian Limited was one of the first companies to to support Opera's vision of how the Web one day would be available on any device. Today, that vision is becoming reality." said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.
“Sharp welcomes plans for the Symbian Foundation,” said Yuji Arai, Group Deputy General Manager, Communication Systems Group.
"We're excited about the plans for the Symbian Foundation and believe it will increase the proliferation of innovative products and services to mobile consumers," says Bob Bicksler, CEO of TapRoot Systems.
“A common platform for user experience, applications and services, with broad industry governance of its development, will provide opportunities to innovate and differentiate and be an excellent step in the evolution of mobile phones,” said Johan Sandberg, CEO at UIQ Technology.
Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, hundreds of organizations have registered their interest in joining the foundation via the website.
As previously announced, the plans for the establishment of the Symbian Foundation and royalty-free licensing of foundation software are:
10-9-08
At the CeBIT 2008 trade fair, SVOX’s partner Linguatec presented the global innovation Shoot & Translate, the first photo translation programme for mobile phones, smartphones and PDAs. Our mobile phone is our constant companion through all of life's endeavors. When used in combination with the translation software Shoot & Translate, it becomes the practical translator that's always at hand when we need it.
Computer translation software has established itself a useful aid for understanding foreign languages. But what happens when you're on the go and don't have a computer at your disposal? That's exactly when you need a translator the most. The makers of Shoot & Translate realized this and went straight to work. Their solution: the first photo translation software for mobile phones. The software works in three simple steps: take a picture, scan the text, and translate. There is even the option to have the text read aloud thanks to SVOX speech technology.
Time and again, we are faced with situations where knowing Latin can't help us out. Whether it's a newspaper headline or a sign post forest, it's the so-called "false friends" that are especially confusing. False friends are words that look the same in different languages but have different meanings. For example, the German word "Gift" means "poison" in English, and therefore has nothing to do with the Christmas season or birthdays. And, what would a German say when seeing the word "rappel" written on French speed limit signs, a word that means "madness" in his own language? Do the French just add the word "rappel" because the driver goes mad when having to deal with slower traffic? The German driver quickly pulls out his mobile phone, takes a picture of the sign and everything becomes clear: "rappel" simply means "reminder," because the sign is repeated as a reminder every so many meters or kilometers. The French place great importance on precise information.
Any text can, of course, be entered into the phone manually using the keypad. However, when you don't know the foreign language that you're dealing with very well, entering and spelling the foreign words can become a tiresome and tedious task. Shoot & Translate offers a very practical alternative: It uses the picture-taking function of your mobile phone. You just take a picture with the camera. The text from the picture is extracted and recognized using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and is then translated automatically. In the process, the tested and proven SmartTranslationTM Technology of Linguatec's Personal Translator is used. Of particular significance is SmartCorrect's correction function, which can even handle typos in menus. For instance, it can correctly recognize "raost beefe snadwitch" as being "roast beef sandwich." What is more, the text-to-speech enhanced software can even read the result to you out loud. The SVOX voice output of Linguatec's own Voice Reader ensures excellent playback quality.
A traveler giving a clueless, somewhat shy look at a menu that he can't understand is the classic scenario for someone on vacation. Do you trust yourself when ordering a new and completely unknown dish – even when the waiter is trying to convince you that it is extremely delicious? You should be able to decide that for yourself. After all, who would really want to accidently end up eating the testicles of a bull or sheep? Well, that's exactly what would happen if someone ordered "Rocky Mountain Oysters" off of an American menu. So much for tasty morsels of seafood!
For over 10 years, Linguatec has been developing top-class translation solutions for computers and the Internet. "The current trend is obvious: Mobile phones and smartphones are becoming increasingly important in everyday life. For this reason, it is clear that a translation function also needs to be made available on mobile terminal devices. The brilliant idea associated with this concept is the seamless integration of techologies," says Dr. Reinhard Busch, CEO of Linguatec, as he explains the interaction of the language technologies (text recognition, automatic translation and SVOX voice output) used in the new software. "Now, everyone with a mobile phone can have a translator with them at all times and can confidently leave their dictionary at home. All they have to do is make sure that their phone is always charged."
Source: SVOX (14-3-08)
On2 Technologies, Inc. unveiled plans for Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, February 11 – 14 2008. Following its recent acquisition of Hantro Products Oy, a leading mobile video company, , On2 will present a complete portfolio of video technologies that enhance the web video experience and bring it to the palm of your hand.
Consistently at the forefront of web video technologies, On2’s TrueMotion® codecs deliver Internet based video content through applications and services provided by companies such as: Adobe, Skype, AOL and Move Networks, amongst others. With wireless Internet access becoming faster and more affordable than ever before, mobile consumers now have unfettered access to this content. As consumers increasingly expect a High Definition experience, On2 is uniquely positioned to offer the technologies for unprecedented mobile video experiences.
“For many years our proprietary codecs and, more recently, our Flix® publishing software have been providing the internet community with high quality, low bandwidth and low complexity solutions for sharing video on their desktops.” says Bill Joll, President and CEO of On2 “Now, with Hantro fully integrated with On2, we uniquely bridge the worlds of web, VoIP and mobile video.”
Joll continues: “Chosen by leading device and semiconductor companies because of their ultra low power, high performance and proven interoperability, the embedded hardware and software standards based codecs Hantro is renowned for are pre-requisites in multimedia handsets. By adding our proprietary TrueMotion solutions to this mix we provide chip and device manufacturers with a one-stop-shop for the video technologies required to bring successful next generation multimedia handsets to market.”
With a common thread of making HD possible in extremely resource constrained environments and low bandwidths, On2 will be demonstrating solutions for the creation, sharing and consumption of video over the web and wireless. Visitors to the booth will see an array of desktop and embedded codec implementations and application solutions targeted for chip and handset vendors, network operators and content site owners.
Planned demonstrations to include:
On2 Technologies ensures a compelling video experience for any video application anywhere. From low bit rate to high definition, On2 provides optimized video compression technology enabling innovative solutions for application developers, content and service providers, chip vendors, device manufacturers, digital signage companies and beyond.
Through continual innovation, On2 satisfies the toughest quality, bandwidth, and power requirements for video. The company's proprietary (TrueMotion® VP6™, VP7™) and standards based (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, VC-1) codecs dominate the video market, with more than 1 billion deployments on desktops worldwide and more than 200+ million in mobile; they are also proven in silicon with over 25 semiconductor manufacturers globally.
28-1-08
CellSpin announced its support for sending ‘tweets’ in all four media types (audio, video, pictures and text) to the popular micro-blogging sites Twitter and Pownce.
Users can post multimedia tweets using the CellSpin mobile application, now available on 300+ mobile phones worldwide, or by using the CellSpin website.
CellSpin lets users move beyond Twitter's 140-character limit and take their expression to a new level. Pownce users can share whole range of multimedia experiences with their friends on-the-go using CellSpin.
According to Bobby Gurvinder Singh, CEO and co-founder of CellSpin, "We're really excited that you can now tweet in your own voice and not be limited to text only. You can also share picture tweets and video tweets of your life as you live it, from anywhere in the world on both Pownce and Twitter. This is the next obvious step in the micro-blogging revolution."
According to Ian Fung, co-founder of CellSpin, "CellSpin makes posting to Twitter and Pownce very easy, and makes it more convenient for users to post multimedia in real-time. This will definitely broaden the base for micro-blogging beyond those who use it only to describe what they had for lunch".
CellSpin is free to users worldwide, and available immediately at CellSpin website. CellSpin supports Symbian, Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0, Blackberry operating systems, with others to follow soon. The software is now available on over 300 mobile phone models worldwide. A list of supported phones is at Internet.
CellSpin expands the Mobile 2.0 experience by providing a free, secure, intelligent, one-click mobile application that allows users to create and publish any media type - audio, video, photos and/or text - to their favorite blogging, social networking and auction sites including MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces, Twitter, Pownce and eBay, with more to come.
CellSpin was selected one of the Top 10 Companies to launch at the DEMO conference in January 2008. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
Source: CellSpin Soft (11-6-08)
Advertising professionals can maximize the creative potential of modern mobile phones’ rich-media and interaction capabilities without having to worry about the technology.
Cologne-based IT company Communology will be showing a solution for sophisticated, innovative mobile marketing campaigns at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona (February 11-14, at the Fira de Barcelona, Hall 2, Stand 2B68). The company’s Live Media Mobile Marketing platform removes technical barriers for creatives, enabling them to tap into the entire range of rich-media and interactivity capabilities offered by today’s mobile phones, including video and audio streaming, and Web 2.0 features like photo blogs and community marketing. At the same time, the platform supports a raft of communication functionality, including telephony, SMS/MMS, and instant messaging. The solution provides functions for viral and permission-based marketing, as well as customer data and campaign management.
It even supports location-based marketing using Bluetooth connections and positioning information from mobile network cells and GPS. Daimler was the first reference customer to explore the full potential of Communology’s platform – in a rich-media mobile marketing campaign accompanying the launch of the Mercedes C-Class. The C-Class Mobile Special, online at http://www.c-class-mobilespecial.com <http://www.c-class-mobilespecial.com/> , features extensive multimedia and interaction capabilities. The highly successful campaign has been shortlisted for one of the Global Mobile Awards, which will be presented at the Mobile World Congress.
“Communology’s Live Media platform allows advertisers to give their creativity free rein and make the most of mobile phones’ rich-media and interactivity capabilities,” says Thomas Kähler, CEO of Communology. “What’s more, our white label solution keeps costs down and enables customers to launch an international mobile campaign within the space of just a few weeks.”
The mobile marketing platform provides a software client that offers creatives a comprehensive range of design possibilities. The client can either be preloaded on mobile phones or downloaded over the air via a mobile data connection. It has an optimized memory footprint and is available for a variety of operating systems and execution environments, including Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The client/server solution can continuously update videos, pictures, texts and tickers in real-time and automatically plays audio and animations when new a new event occurs. Furthermore, Communology offers an extensive range of processional services that includes software design, client delivery via application services provisioning (ASP), customization to reflect customer branding and the integration of different interaction channels.
At Mobile World, Communology will also be unveiling a new solution called Live Media Mobile Mash-Up. This is a platform that allows the operators of internet communities such as Facebook and Xing to open up their social networks to mobile users and to exploit the possibilities of Web 2.0 to engage in mobile marketing. Location-based services, rich media, and real-time communication and interactive features make social networks powered by Communology an attractive medium. The solution also provides functions to support customer data and campaign management, target group-aligned content and initiatives, viral marketing within the community, and permission-based advertising.
The new platforms for mobile marketing and mobile social networs are part of Communology’s Live Media Solutions portfolio and continue the company’s platform-centric approach that has proven itself in the provisioning of interactive multimedia services such as mobile TV, mobile video and mobile live tickers. Customers using Communology Live Media platforms include major mobile communications industry players like Sony Ericsson, Nokia, T-Mobile and Vodafone, content providers, including the Financial Times Deutschland, news channel n-tv, music broadcaster MTV, and companies like Daimler engaging in mobile marketing.
Communology operates worldwide as a specialist in rich-media mobile communication applications, offering individually customizable platforms designed to simplify and support the creation of sophisticated applications. The company’s portfolio also includes test environments and services for quality assurance of standard software components in mobile devices. Communology customers include AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Nokia, n24, and Sony Ericsson.
11-2-08
Cantabria infinita
Cueva de El Soplao • Año Santo Lebaniego • Turismo y gastronomía
Propuestas en Brasil
Cabo Frío: paraíso a 200 km de Río • Niterói: playas, arquitectura y agenda cultural • El camino de Niemeyer: recorrido arquitectónico
Propuestas en Argentina
Ruta Nacional 40: Recorrido de la parte Norte • Recorrido del Centro (Cuyo) • Recorrido de la parte Sur (Patagonia)
Propuestas de turismo
en la Comunidad Valenciana
Ibi, Onil, Foia de Castalla • Belén de Tirisiti - Patrimonio cultural en Alcoi • Los Baños del Almirante (Valencia del s.XIV) • Mundo Naval en el museo Príncipe Felipe • Arte rupestre valenciano (Museo de la Valltorta)
Transporte aéreo
Air Nostrum • Ryanair • Spanair • Vueling
