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Twinlinx partners with Mobile Distillery to bring NFC to mass-market handsets
Company: Mobile Distillery
Date: 27 Oct 2008
Marseilles, France, 27 October 2008 - Mobile Distillery, the leading specialist of mobile application production tools and testing services, today announced that it has been integral in the development of a solution that has the potential to turn Bluetooth-enabled handsets into fully featured Near Field Communication (NFC) devices. As the lead of the project, Twinlinx, a developer of dedicated hardware for NFC mobile phones, selected Mobile Distillery for its technology leadership in helping the industry develop successful mobile applications. The first prototypes and demonstration of the Twinlinx and Mobile Distillery solution will be on show at the forthcoming ‘CARTES + IDentifications’ tradeshow in France from 4-6 November – Twinlinx booth # 4M 111.
Around the world many services are already using NFC to enable quick and simple transactions where users can simply ‘swipe’ a card to pay for a train ticket or coffee. In countries like Japan mobile phones equipped with NFC have become commonplace, with plenty of services emerging, which take advantage of the speed and convenience of NFC. Until now, the lack of NFC handsets has prevented these services becoming a worldwide phenomenon. This new solution developed jointly by Twinlinx and Mobile Distillery removes this barrier, allowing any Bluetooth capable handset (approximately 60% of current devices) to also use NFC.
“A lot has been said about the potential for NFC technology to transform the way we use our mobile phones, but while the technology is out there, the lack of handsets has been the problem. Coupled with this, fragmentation of NFC technology further hinders the deployment of mobile NFC,” said Jacek Kowalski, Twinlinx Founder and CEO. “The solution we have created with the Mobile Distillery’s expertise in mobile technologies means that overnight there are more than a billion handsets out there that can use NFC, rather than just tens of millions. This is a game-changer for NFC technology.”
Using the existing ability of virtually any mobile handset to run software written in Java ME (J2ME), Mobile Distillery has worked with Twinlinx to create a Java ME layer which can access Twinlinx’s unique Bluetooth NFC module named My-Max. This module – which takes the form of a small sticker that fits on the back of the handset – combines a Bluetooth receiver and NFC transmitter, as well as a chip which adds a layer of encryption, making sure any data sent using the module is totally secure. The combination of Mobile Distillery’s software layer and Twinlinx’s hardware and firmware means that any developer who wishes to create applications and services which make use of NFC’s unique benefits will soon be able to do so for almost any handset on the market – all it requires is Bluetooth.
Taking advantage of Celsius‘s platform, Mobile Distillery’s industry-leading automated porting suite, developers of NFC content and services can ensure automatic porting of their applications across all compatible NFC mobile handsets* from one Java ME source code. With today’s announcement, those NFC applications will also be automatically ported to enable Bluetooth handsets.
Celsius’ automatic backfilling also means that those applications will be automatically compatible with all new NFC and Bluetooth handsets as they come to market. The sophisticated platform means that all developers, not just NFC or Bluetooth experts, can easily develop NFC and Bluetooth applications using Celsius because it self-manages high level APIs.
“Today’s announcement should be an incredible boost to all of the companies involved in creating and deploying NFC services. While NFC devices are slowly coming onto the market, there’s a demand for handsets right now. By using the native Bluetooth capabilities of today’s phones, the biggest barrier to NFC really taking off is about to be removed,” said Vincent Berge, co-founder and General Manager of Mobile Distillery.
The first My-Max prototypes and demonstration will be on show at the forthcoming ‘CARTES + IDentifications’ tradeshow in France from 4-6 November. The project has endorsed by two main French competitive clusters.
*Among the +1000 devices included in the Celsius database.
About Mobile Distillery - www.mobile-distillery.com
A specialist in mobile technologies, especially Java™ Micro Edition and BREW, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to solve the platform and handset fragmentation issue that developers face when developing Mobile content & services.
Celsius, Mobile Distillery’s award winning Automatic Porting software solution, radically simplifies and optimizes the Java Mobile application development life cycle - from conception, development, through porting, testing, to deployment and backfilling processes. Thanks to Celsius, only 1 source code and a few clicks are needed to allow developers to create individually optimized mobile applications for more than 1000 Java, Brew and Windows Mobile handsets (to date) and to ensure backfilling for new devices. With Alembic, its groundbreaking device database developers have access to more than 1000 fully tested device characteristics, behaviors and performances from 1000+ devices worldwide. As a leading specialist in mobile testing, Mobile Distillery also provides multiple services for testing mobile applications on real Handsets from OTA Download & install testing to Java ME quality testing, via SIM tool kit application testing.
Mobile Distillery’s customers include web specialists, mobile game publishers, mobile marketing agencies, IT service companies, as well as developers, publishers and system integrators across the mobile application ecosystem.
Mobile Distillery has offices in Paris, Marseilles and Montreal.
About Twinlinx - http://www.twinlinx.com
Based in Aix en Provence France, Twinlinx develops technological platform for an easy integration and development of NFC applications on the existing and future mobile phones. The Company has developed a thin sticker named My-Max for a mobile phone allowing to enhance it with NFC capabilities instead of replacing the phone. The company started and managed by veterans of smart card and contactless card market became is a fast moving organization currently in phase of issuing product prototypes and building partnerships. Twinlinx aims to be highly instrumental in NFC market expansion and in enabling development of NFC applications. Through a combined chips/application offer, Twinlinx is “bringing convenience to People”.
Around the world many services are already using NFC to enable quick and simple transactions where users can simply ‘swipe’ a card to pay for a train ticket or coffee. In countries like Japan mobile phones equipped with NFC have become commonplace, with plenty of services emerging, which take advantage of the speed and convenience of NFC. Until now, the lack of NFC handsets has prevented these services becoming a worldwide phenomenon. This new solution developed jointly by Twinlinx and Mobile Distillery removes this barrier, allowing any Bluetooth capable handset (approximately 60% of current devices) to also use NFC.
“A lot has been said about the potential for NFC technology to transform the way we use our mobile phones, but while the technology is out there, the lack of handsets has been the problem. Coupled with this, fragmentation of NFC technology further hinders the deployment of mobile NFC,” said Jacek Kowalski, Twinlinx Founder and CEO. “The solution we have created with the Mobile Distillery’s expertise in mobile technologies means that overnight there are more than a billion handsets out there that can use NFC, rather than just tens of millions. This is a game-changer for NFC technology.”
Using the existing ability of virtually any mobile handset to run software written in Java ME (J2ME), Mobile Distillery has worked with Twinlinx to create a Java ME layer which can access Twinlinx’s unique Bluetooth NFC module named My-Max. This module – which takes the form of a small sticker that fits on the back of the handset – combines a Bluetooth receiver and NFC transmitter, as well as a chip which adds a layer of encryption, making sure any data sent using the module is totally secure. The combination of Mobile Distillery’s software layer and Twinlinx’s hardware and firmware means that any developer who wishes to create applications and services which make use of NFC’s unique benefits will soon be able to do so for almost any handset on the market – all it requires is Bluetooth.
Taking advantage of Celsius‘s platform, Mobile Distillery’s industry-leading automated porting suite, developers of NFC content and services can ensure automatic porting of their applications across all compatible NFC mobile handsets* from one Java ME source code. With today’s announcement, those NFC applications will also be automatically ported to enable Bluetooth handsets.
Celsius’ automatic backfilling also means that those applications will be automatically compatible with all new NFC and Bluetooth handsets as they come to market. The sophisticated platform means that all developers, not just NFC or Bluetooth experts, can easily develop NFC and Bluetooth applications using Celsius because it self-manages high level APIs.
“Today’s announcement should be an incredible boost to all of the companies involved in creating and deploying NFC services. While NFC devices are slowly coming onto the market, there’s a demand for handsets right now. By using the native Bluetooth capabilities of today’s phones, the biggest barrier to NFC really taking off is about to be removed,” said Vincent Berge, co-founder and General Manager of Mobile Distillery.
The first My-Max prototypes and demonstration will be on show at the forthcoming ‘CARTES + IDentifications’ tradeshow in France from 4-6 November. The project has endorsed by two main French competitive clusters.
*Among the +1000 devices included in the Celsius database.
About Mobile Distillery - www.mobile-distillery.com
A specialist in mobile technologies, especially Java™ Micro Edition and BREW, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to solve the platform and handset fragmentation issue that developers face when developing Mobile content & services.
Celsius, Mobile Distillery’s award winning Automatic Porting software solution, radically simplifies and optimizes the Java Mobile application development life cycle - from conception, development, through porting, testing, to deployment and backfilling processes. Thanks to Celsius, only 1 source code and a few clicks are needed to allow developers to create individually optimized mobile applications for more than 1000 Java, Brew and Windows Mobile handsets (to date) and to ensure backfilling for new devices. With Alembic, its groundbreaking device database developers have access to more than 1000 fully tested device characteristics, behaviors and performances from 1000+ devices worldwide. As a leading specialist in mobile testing, Mobile Distillery also provides multiple services for testing mobile applications on real Handsets from OTA Download & install testing to Java ME quality testing, via SIM tool kit application testing.
Mobile Distillery’s customers include web specialists, mobile game publishers, mobile marketing agencies, IT service companies, as well as developers, publishers and system integrators across the mobile application ecosystem.
Mobile Distillery has offices in Paris, Marseilles and Montreal.
About Twinlinx - http://www.twinlinx.com
Based in Aix en Provence France, Twinlinx develops technological platform for an easy integration and development of NFC applications on the existing and future mobile phones. The Company has developed a thin sticker named My-Max for a mobile phone allowing to enhance it with NFC capabilities instead of replacing the phone. The company started and managed by veterans of smart card and contactless card market became is a fast moving organization currently in phase of issuing product prototypes and building partnerships. Twinlinx aims to be highly instrumental in NFC market expansion and in enabling development of NFC applications. Through a combined chips/application offer, Twinlinx is “bringing convenience to People”.
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