Nokia Recognizes 8
Mobile Innovations
Nokia has recognized the initial group
of mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series
program. The program provides select small- and mid-sized developers with
key business and market support and facilitates access to applications and
services to target the mobile device market. Each participant was required
to demonstrate that a clear market demand existed for their solution.
The first group of developers in the Innovation Series was recognized for
solutions ranging from a mobile web widget development platform to
applications for location-based social networking, mobile video streaming,
mobile TV-shifting and device data backup, as well as secure
enterprise-grade mobile instant messaging. As part of the program, the
2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series applications and solutions are
showcased in video demonstrations created by Forum Nokia and hosted online
at Share on Ovi:
http://share.ovi.com/channel/Forum_Nokia.Innovation.
The developers recognized today for the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series
include:
Application: Plusmo
Developer: Plusmo, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
Plusmo provides standards-based mobile widgets that deliver personalized
experiences for consumers on a broad range of mobile devices.
Application: Whrrl
Developer: Pelago, Inc.
Seattle, WA
Whrrl is a location-based social discovery tool that gives users access to
more than 6.5 million points of interest in the U.S. using Nokia's
Assisted-Global Positioning System (A GPS) service.
Application: Qik
Developer: Qik, Inc.
Foster City, CA
Qik is a multimedia communications service that enables users to stream
video, audio and IM live over the Internet, from S60 3rd Edition devices
to any PC, laptop, or mobile device that has Internet connectivity.
Application: WebMessenger Mobile
Developer: WebMessenger, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
WebMessenger provides a native Symbian client application for Microsoft
Office Communications Server (OCS) that extends OCS functionality to Nokia
S60 devices.
Application: Backup-Pal
Developer: Advanced Wireless Solutions
Burbank, CA
Advanced Wireless Solutions' Backup-Pal. provides a solution to the
problem of data loss resulting from lost, stolen, and damaged cell phones,
as well as data transfer problems associated with cell phone upgrades and
switching carriers.
Application: Hava Mobile Player
Developer: Monsoon Multimedia
San Mateo, CA
Hava Mobile Player is a TV "place shifting" application that leverages
Monsoon Multimedia's Hava device to let mobile users watch live home TV or
their own recorded content on their mobile device, wherever they may be.
Application: JoikuSpot
Developer: Joikusoft Oy Ltd.
Espoo, Finland
JoikuSpot is a free mobile application that can be installed directly onto
a 3G connection-enabled S60 3rd Edition device to turn a user's 3G mobile
connection into their own secure WLAN hotspot, virtually wherever they are
- whether stationery or in a moving train or car.
Application: UbiSafe
Developer: UbiEst.
Treviso, Italy
UbiSafe is a location-based services (LBS) application built on Java
technology that enables mobile device users to easily address their own
personal security and emergency needs, as well as those of family, friends
and individuals with special needs, such as children, the elderly and
invalids.
The Forum Nokia Innovation Series was launched by Nokia in late-2007 as an
ongoing developer discovery, selection and go-to-market program, designed
to support small- to mid-sized mobile developers as they strive to bring
applications and services built to run on Nokia device platforms to the
global mobile marketplace.
Among the benefits to developers, the program offers marketing and
promotional assistance to create and increase general marketplace
awareness of their application among consumers and within the mobile
industry. It also provides assistance with placement of the application in
Nokia and Nokia partner distribution channels and delivers informed
feedback to the developer on industry and consumer considerations
involving application features, functionality, and distribution.
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