Today, UIQ Technology announced Monotype Imaging and Cybercom as new partners in the UIQ Alliance program, adding to the many service, application and content providers world-wide who enhance the value of the UIQ product.
Ronneby, Sweden, 12 September 2007 - These partnerships will allow for increased font technology and text rendering, as well as application development and content for mobile phones based on UIQ.
Monotype Imaging, with head office in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, is a global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras, as well as software applications and operating systems.
"The UIQ platform is ideally suited to empower developers with the benefits that our mobile text solution provides," said John Seguin, EVP of Monotype Imaging. "Through our compact rendering technologies and scalable fonts engineered for high-quality display on mobile phones, UIQ will provide opportunities to enrich user experiences and deliver crisp readability on small screens in multiple languages."
Cybercom is a high-tech consulting company that concentrates on selected technologies and offers business-critical solutions, primarily to the telecom sector. Cybercom serves leading enterprises that are on the cutting edge of technology, often within the areas of portal development, billing solutions, or embedded systems.
"UIQ provides a flexible solution that simplifies the integration of mobile applications like push email, internet browsing, end user personalization and more. This partnership means that we can strengthen our offer to our customers and also be part of the development of new mobile phones for the future" said Johan Strid, Vice President at Cybercom South.
"UIQ Technology's partnership with Monotype Imaging and Cybercom means that we will be able to provide our customers a wider choice of services and applications in the development of software for new mobile phones" says Carina Lindberg, Head of Partner Management at UIQ Technology. "We would like to welcome these two partners to the alliance, and we are looking forward to a most rewarding cooperation".
The purpose of the UIQ Alliance program is to add value to the industry with attractive applications and services for and around UIQ, and to make it easier for licensees to find UIQ compatible solutions. More partners will be announced in the near future.
About UIQ Technology
UIQ Technology AB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. UIQ Technology creates and licenses the open software platform, UIQ, to leading mobile phone manufacturers. The flexible and customizable user interface and development platform is pre-integrated and tested with Symbian OS, the leading industry standard operating system for mobile phones.
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