Teleca selected to be a Nokia Series 60 Competence Center

Teleca selected to be a Nokia Series 60 Competence Center Teleca announced today that it has signed a competence center agreement with Nokia. Teleca will supply development and integration services to handset manufacturers licensing the Series 60 Platform. Teleca's Series 60 Competence Center has optimised skills in offering end-to-end software and hardware integration work for the licensees and will manage specific, customised projects as well as entire Series 60 smart phone integration work. Today Teleca is already working on several Series 60-integration projects. "Teleca is delighted to collaborate with Nokia and the Series 60 licensees on the Series 60 Platform. This strengthens Teleca's position as a leading supplier of services to mobile handset manufacturers, and is an important part of our Open Platform strategy, " said Nick Wood, Senior Vice President, Teleca Mobile Devices. "Series 60 Competence Centers, such as Teleca, will expand development support for the licensees of the Series 60 Platform and will benefit licensees with reduced time-to-market," said Jukka Riivari, Director, Sales, Nokia Mobile Software. "We are delighted to have new members joining the Series 60 work." Nokia will provide engineering and technical support to competence centers, including access to programming interfaces and early releases of new and evolving functionalities. The Series 60 Platform is a software product for smart phones that Nokia licenses to other mobile-handset manufacturers. Manufacturers will be able to integrate the Series 60 Platform into their own phone designs running on top of the Symbian OS. The Series 60 Platform includes mobile browsing, multimedia messaging and content downloading, as well as a host of personal information management and telephony applications. In addition, the software platform includes a complete and modifiable user interface library. Nokia, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens license the Series 60 Platform. In a related announcement, Nokia today introduced the Series 60 Product Creation Community designed to accelerate the development and acceptance of standards-based smart phones. Through the agreement Teleca also becomes a member of this community. For more information on the Series 60 Product Creation Community, please visit www.forum.nokia.com/series60. Teleca has been a Symbian Competence Center since January 2000 and offers deep knowledge of Symbian OS, covering applications development, UI modifications, system level software, device drivers and base porting. Teleca is also a technology partner for Texas Instruments' OMAP platform, which delivers voice and multimedia enhanced applications for 2.5 and 3G wireless phones, PDAs and advanced mobile Internet applications. For more information please contact: · Nick Wood, Senior Vice President, Teleca Mobile Devices, mobile +44-7774 723 623 Teleca will be present at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on 18-21 February. Welcome to stand E68 in Hall 2. Teleca is a European high-end consulting group focused on new technology and R&D. Our business concept is to strengthen our customer's market position and time-to-market. This is achieved by providing professional teams with specialist technical expertise, working in partnership with development-intensive companies world-wide. The group has more than 2,300 employees in 13 countries with a strong presence in the Nordic region, the UK and France. Teleca is quoted on the Attract40 list of Stockholmsbörsen. For more information, please visit www.teleca.com. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/02/18/20030218BIT00600/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/02/18/20030218BIT00600/wkr0002.pdf