mobile software: May 2008 Archives
Dilithium, announced the Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA), a high capacity and scalable solution that automates the real-time adaptation and delivery of video content over multiple networks to any device. Dilithium’s patented technologes perform real-time, on demand media conversion with minimal latency, avoiding the need for costly off-line transcoding. DCA enables service providers and content owners to deliver a superior customer experience, increase revenue streams, and attract and retain new customers with minimum capital investment.
The DCA includes a number of key features and benefits including:
- Real-time Media Transcoding: Conversion and delivery of streamed media (on-demand) as it is downloaded or streamed from the content source.
- Flexibility: Easily integrated with external platforms such as subscriber databases, billing systems and content management systems. Scripted applications allow control over the content to be played, target bitrates, frame sizes, codecs and file formats from a wide range of sources.
- Easy Integration: DCA uses the industry standard PHP as a common scripting language leveraging the wide range of standard interfaces to other systems. DCA supports a wide range of service and billing models, including dynamically generated content, subscription services and pay-per-view.
- Scalability: DCA can be scaled from small scale trial installations of tens of sessions through to distributed systems suitable for very large scale services through the use of service node clusters.
- Efficiency: Innovative caching facility means that content need only be transcoded once for a specific device or network and can be served to a large number of clients with minimal additional overhead.
- Reliability: A comprehensive management application allows all elements of the system to be monitored and configured and a wide range of performance statistics recovered.
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones.
The integration of Windows Live services into the BlackBerry platform will allow customers who use Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on their BlackBerry smartphone to benefit from the BlackBerry platform architecture with the ability to communicate in real time using push technology. Customers will also be able to seamlessly access their Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger account from their BlackBerry smartphone by simply entering their Windows Live e-mail address and password once.
Funambol, a provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by
open source, and Laszlo Systems, a Rich Internet
Application (RIA) software and developer of the OpenLaszlo open source
development platform, announced that they are integrating the
commercial versions of their award-winning Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0 messaging
solutions.
The joint offering combines Laszlo Webtop, a unified web-based
communication suite that includes email, contacts and calendar, with
Funambol’s push email and PIM sync software, which is deployable across 1.5
billion mobile phones. The combined solution enables service providers to
rapidly transform their email operations into a compelling new way for
consumer and business users to access email, contacts and calendars over
the Internet and on mobile devices. The offering also enables service
providers to leverage an ad-based model for online and mobile users,
providing an important new revenue stream.
SNAP Mobile, an end-to end solution for connected mobile gaming in Java technology, has announced its latest Software Development Kit (SDK 2.0) for Nokia devices. After several years of market deployment and continuous technology development based on developer feedback, the SNAP Mobile SDK 2.0 has evolved to make game development even more intuitive with a simpler API, faster emulation and testing tools. The SDK is free of charge and available through Forum Nokia, the largest mobile development community worldwide with 3.4 million registered members.
The SDK 2.0 can be downloaded at http://www.forum.nokia.com/snapmobile
Adobe Systems announced the Open Screen
Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM,
Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola,
Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson,
Toshiba and Verizon Wireless.
The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Also supporting the Open Screen Project are leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to reliably deliver rich Web and video experiences live and on-demand across a variety of devices.
The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment — taking advantage of Adobe Flash Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and devices, including phones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. Adobe iwill remove all license restrictions on swift file format and FLV/F4V specifications, and remove all license fees on embedded players.
The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by enabling the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment is intended to provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers.
