SYSOPENDIGIA Plc and UIQ Technology to strengthen training partnership
SYSOPENDIGIA Plc Press release 17.10.2007
SYSOPENDIGIA Plc, one of the world’s leading Symbian OS training houses, announced today that it has entered into a global partnership agreement with UIQ Technology to strengthen their collaboration in the mobile software business.
With an extensive portfolio of over 30 courses on mobile software development, SYSOPENDIGIA has become one of the world's largest mobile phone technology training houses, providing services to OEMs, ODMs, semiconductor vendors and independent software vendors. In fact, during the past years, SYSOPENDIGIA has been working extensively with the leading phone manufacturers in several Symbian OS phone development programs.
Mika Mankinen, Director, Operational Development, and head of SYSOPENDIGIA’s training organization says: "We are delighted to be partnering with one of the world’s leading technology companies. This partnership will increase the collaboration between SYSOPENDIGIA and UIQ Technology in several areas: in addition to the widened scope of UIQ and Symbian OS specific trainings to the UIQ developer community, the training partnership will strengthen the training offering targeted at UIQ licensees with courses covering areas specific to UIQ phone creation such as HW adaptation and telephony integration.”
Carina Lindberg, Head of Partner Management at UIQ Technology says: “The extensive and flexible course offering from SYSOPENDIGIA is really adding value to everyone working with Symbian and UIQ. By making the SYSOPENDIGIA training more visible to our business partners we hope and wish for more people to use the excellent offering to build their UIQ competence.”
Find out more at the Symbian Smartphone Show
SYSOPENDIGIA will discuss UIQ3 Application Development at the upcoming Symbian Smartphone Show (ExCeL Centre, London, October 16th – 17th). This developer training session will consist in a hands-on workshop focused primarily on writing UI configuration independent code for UIQ3 phones such as the Motorola Z8 and the SonyEricsson W960.
The session will take place on Wednesday October 17th, from 12.30 – 15.00, in the Developer Training area.
For more information or should you want to organize a meeting with SYSOPENDIGIA, please contact Mika Mankinen, Director, Operational Development, SYSOPENDIGIA Plc, e-mail: mika.mankinen (at) sysopendigia.com
For further information, please contact
Mika Mankinen, Director, Operational Development, SYSOPENDIGIA Plc
Tel. +358 40 830 9486, e-mail: mika.mankinen (at) sysopendigia.com
Carina Dietmann, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, UIQ Technology
Tel +46 457 46 48 20, e-mail: carina.dietmann(at)uiq.com
SYSOPENDIGIA in brief
SYSOPENDIGIA is a modern, 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. The company is based in Finland, operating globally and employing over 1,100 professionals. SYSOPENDIGIA is listed on the Nordic Exchange. For further information: www.sysopendigia.com
UIQ Technology in brief
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. For further information: www.uiq.com