Teleca’s SurfKitchen Mobile Internet Platform Powers TelstraOne App for Android
Malmö, Sweden,– July 27, 2011 – Teleca, a world-leading supplier of solutions and services to the mobile and connected devices industries today announced that its SurfKitchen Mobile Operator division has extended its relationship with Telstra, to provide the TelstraOne application for Android smartphones.
The TelstraOne app for Android brings news, sports and weather feeds direct to a Telstra customer’s smartphone homescreen. Customers can set up general news or sports widgets. Or, if they’re interested in specific news categories, such as Entertainment, or a particular sport such as NRL, they can set up mini widgets dedicated to this content. TelstraOne also includes two handy weather widgets and, for the first time, a My Account widget that makes it easy to see at a glance how much included data a customer has remaining. TelstraOne content is unmetered on the Telstra Next G® network.
The TelstraOne app for Android builds upon the successful delivery of Telstra MyPlace and TelstraOne Experience leveraging the existing SurfKitchen Mobile Internet Platform.
Telstra has continued to lead the mobile market with high speed mobile networks, and innovative services. TelstraOne builds on this by providing Telstra content and services directly to the subscriber on the home screen.
"Telstra has an outstanding record of innovation in mobile communications, and SurfKitchen has worked extensively with Telstra to improve the usability and discoverability of data services on feature phones” says Michel Quazza, chief executive officer, Teleca. “The TelstraOne app for Android extends this learning to create a compelling and easy to use experience on smartphones. This is an exciting prospect as we leverage the wide range of Android devices with the SurfKitchen Mobile Internet Platform."
The SurfKitchen Mobile Internet Platform is designed to enable mobile operators to deliver an intuitive and compelling experience to users across an unrivalled range of handsets. It includes sophisticated content delivery, application launcher and carrier-class mobile server which enhance mobile application/service acquisition and usability.
TelstraOne app launches on the HTC Sensation, the HTC Wildfire S and the LG Optimus Black and is available to download via the Android Market for customers with an existing Telstra Next G® Android smartphone.
For more information on the SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform, please visit: www.surfkitchen.com/v5/products-overview.html
About Teleca
Teleca is a world-leading supplier of software solutions and engineering services to the connected devices industries. Teleca's global scale and reach is unique. Using tailored solutions, systems design, integration and testing we help drive down development time and deliver value. Teleca has approximately 2,000 employees in 11 countries.
For more information, please visit: www.teleca.com
SurfKitchen – the Mobile Operator division of Teleca is uniquely focused on providing mobile operators and their partners with the ability to deliver the optimum mobile user experience for mobile Internet applications and services. SurfKitchen provides a Mobile Internet Platform that delivers a personalized, compelling and intuitive on device experience for subscribers to discover, acquire and use the broadest catalogue of mobile internet applications and services on the widest range of smart phones and feature phones including Symbian Series 60, Microsoft Windows Mobile 5,6 and 7, Java J2ME MIDP2, BREW, RIM BlackBerry and Android platforms.
SurfKitchen's solutions have been deployed by major operators throughout the world including Orange Group, Telstra, Telefonica Moviles Espana, Maxis, Cincinnati Bell Wireless and ALJAWAL (Saudi Telecom). For more information, visit: www.surfkitchen.com
Telstra Corporation
Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, and one of the best known brands in the country. Telstra offers a full range of services and competes in all Australian telecommunications markets, providing more than 8.5 million fixed line and 11.4 million mobile services.
One of Telstra’s major strengths is the company’s vast geographical coverage across Australia through both fixed and mobile network infrastructure. This infrastructure underpins the carriage of the majority of Australia's domestic and international voice and data telephony traffic.
Telstra has a number of business interests in Asia, and owns 50% of Australia’s pay-TV company, FOXTEL®.
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