INSIDE and Mobile Distillery’s partnership project aims to design a software
solution for the development of portable NFC/Java Mobile Applications across
multiple NFC phones. Based on Mobile Distillery’s Celsius architecture, the solution
is dedicated to Mobile Software developers who will need to cope with multiple
implementations of NFC technologies, which adds yet another complexity to the
development of Java ME applications across multiple handsets.
By using the new, NFC Celsius module, the developer will work on the NFC/Java ME
application once, and run it across all NFC phones without any further
modifications. Accelerated time-to-market, reduction of costs and an easy transfer
to upcoming NFC phones will be the great advantages of NFC Celsius module, which
will enable easier and faster adoption of NFC technology.
The partnership is divided into two phases: firstly in the short term –the two
companies will be developing a Celsius NFC prototype within the Q3 2007 timeframe.
The second step, planned for Q1 2008, will consist of the joint development of NFC
Celsius module, a complete set of Java ME NFC tools covering the commercially
available NFC handsets and ones for the near future.
“The NFC Developers Summit shows that there are great expectations from developers,
content and service providers to supply mobile users with innovative applications
based on NFC. As a reference mobile execution platform, Java ME enjoyed a
tremendous success over the past 5 years, it is widely recognised by the mobile
developers community, but it also undergoes an irresistible trend to fragmentation,
with significantly different implementations in handsets from various vendors. As
an NFC pioneer and market leader, INSIDE believes that interoperability is a key
success factor in delivering NFC-based services. We have a role to play and the
proper expertise to bring the full benefits of the NFC standard to the NFC
developers community.” comments Philippe Martineau, INSIDE’s EVP of the NFC
Business Line.
“We are very pleased to partner with a leading NFC company such as INSIDE
Contactless. By combining both leading edge expertise, a typical mobile application
developer won’t have to adapt his application weekly to cover Europe and the US,
since one new NFC phone is expected every week in 2008.” Said, Vincent Berge,
Co-Founder & general manager, Mobile Distillery. ” With this turn-key Celsius NFC
solution, mobile developers will focus on their added value, while accessing a new
range of mobile applications in a few clicks. ”
During the summit, INSIDE Contactless spokespeople will be available on booth A7 and
Tim Baker, INSIDE’s Advanced Marketing Director will be giving a panorama of
NFC-related execution environments, “The driving forces in handset architecture”, on
Wednesday, April 18th at 2:30 p.m. On the same day at 4:30 p.m., Vincent Berge will
speak about "Developing NFC application across multiple handsets".
About INSIDE Contactless
Founded in 1995, INSIDE is headquartered in France and with global presence in
China, Singapore, Poland and the USA. INSIDE is uniquely positioned as the only
fabless semiconductor company solely dedicated to the advancement of contactless
technology, leveraging one of the industry’s largest intellectual property
portfolios. Through strategic emphasis in Contactless Payments and Near Field
Communications (NFC), INSIDE has been on a rapid growth track over the past two
years with more than 15M chips delivered for contactless payment cards in the US
market and a dominant position in driving NFC standardisation and pilot deployments.
For more information, www.insidecontactless.com.
About Mobile Distillery and Celsius
Specialised in mobile Java and Brew technologies, Mobile Distillery develops and
sells a software solution suite, called Celsius, enabling the optimisation and
porting of mobile Java applications across more than 550 (April 2007) Java handsets
in just a few clicks. These solutions radically simplify and optimise applications
development processes, reduce porting cycles whilst generating cost savings, and
accelerating time-to-market. Mobile Distillery’s customers include mobile marketing
agencies & mobile Java engineering companies (Atos Origin, Business Anywhere,
Prylos, Altexia, CubeX, Playfone, …), and game and mobile application publishers and
developers (Visiware, Lexis Mobile, Touchlink, Recreate, Wizarbox, Exkee, …), an a
worldwide basis.
For more information, please visit, www.mobile-distillery.com
About NFC
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new, short-range wireless connectivity
technology that evolved from a combination of existing contactless identification
and interconnection technologies. Products with built-in NFC will dramatically
simplify the way consumer devices interact with one another, helping people speed
connections, receive and share information and even make fast and secure payments.
Operating at 13.56 MHz and transferring data at up to 424 Kbits/second, NFC provides
intuitive, simple, and safe communication between electronic devices. NFC is both a
“read” and “write” technology. Communication between two NFC-compatible devices
occurs when they are brought within four centimetres of one another: a simple wave
or touch can establish an NFC connection which is then compatible with other known
wireless technologies such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.. The underlying layers of NFC
technology follow ISO, ECMA, and ETSI standards. Because the transmission range is
so short, NFC-enabled transactions are inherently secure. Also, physical proximity
of the device to the reader gives users the reassurance of being in control of the
process.
NFC can be used with a variety of devices, from mobile phones that enable payment or
transfer information to digital cameras that send their photos to a TV set with just
a touch. The possibilities are endless, and NFC is sure to take the complexities out
of today’s increasingly sophisticated consumer devices and make them simpler to use. |
