"This announcement not only demonstrates our continued commitment to provide accessible partner applications and services for our customers, but also the rapid growth and market acceptance of our partner program and our product, UIQ" says Elisabet Melin, VP Marketing. "We are very pleased to welcome our new partners into the UIQ Alliance and look forward to a good cooperation."

The purpose of UIQ Alliance is to shorten time-to-market when creating UIQ phones. UIQ Alliance is a business case driven partner program giving early access to UIQ releases, roadmap updates, joint marketing, technical support and other.

New members:

Visto enables "on-the-go" professionals to have instant and secure access to personal and corporate information from the convenience of their mobile phone. They provide messaging services to a broad set of mobile devices. www.visto.com

Epocware is a subsidiary of Paragon Software Group and supply the mobile market translation dictionaries, personal productivity & information management applications www.epocware.com

ARM By using ARM, developers can create a wealth of mobile phone applications, allowing data-enabled (2.5G and 3G) mobile phone users to stay in contact, in control and informed wherever they are. www.arm.com/markets/mobile_solutions/

weComm is a world leader in interactive mobile data solutions, including interactive mobile TV, rich mobile media applications, betting & gaming and financial trading applications, and has over 40 patents/patents-pending for Mobile Quality of Service over variable wireless networks. www.wecomm.com

Flander is one of the world's leading companies dedicated to the development and testing of mobile communications software and devices. Flander will guarantee that ported solutions are developed according to the best technical approach and according to UIQ guidelines. www.flander.com

Neustar NGM is one of the world leaders in next generation communication solutions for Mobile Operators. NeuStar's Mobile IM, Presence and portfolio of communications solutions are deployed to over 30 Operators globally. NeuStar NGM is headquartered in London and is part of NeuStar, Inc. www.neustar.biz/ngm

Inmote is a new training and development services company. Inmote is a Certified Symbian Training Partner and can deliver a complete portfolio of Symbian courses to its customers. Inmote provides development services to complement existing development teams. www.inmote.com

EMCC Software is a provider of mobile software solutions, consultancy services and training. EMCC are already members of the UIQ Alliance as a Competence Centre. The new membership deepens the cooperation as they are now also becoming training partners in the UIQ Alliance. As a renowned UIQ Competence Center, EMCC is a preferred supplier to many platform providers and handset manufacturers. www.emccsoft.com

SysOpen Digia is an agile software house providing and implementing ICT products, services and technologies for its customers to improve their competitive advantage - solutions for the needs of a transforming world. Apart from being members in the UIQ Alliance as a Competence Centre, they are now also deepening their UIQ Alliance membership by also becoming training partners. www.sysopendigia.com