Mobile Distillery's Celsius Selected By Visiware As Its Standardized Java Mobile Porting Solution - Speed And Ease Saves Time And Money
November 28th, 2006 - Mobile Distillery ( www.mobile-distillery.com), a specialist Javaä mobile porting software company today announced a three-year agreement with leading interactive TV organisation Visiware ( www.visiware.com). The deal sees Visiware licensing Mobile Distillery's Celsius V3 open architecture software to enable it to effortlessly port existing and future Java games to more than 450 mobile European, US and Canadian handsets.
Mobile Distillery's solution uniquely addresses the time and expense associated with making Java mobile games available across multiple mobile devices. These issues have widely been identified as major barriers to innovation and creativity, as developers spend a massively disproportionate amount of effort 're-creating' their games for the most popular handsets.
Access to Celsius' extensive 'handset behaviour and bugs' database of over 450 global handsets, through its pre-processor and optimisers provides developers with a competitive advantage, gaining time and reducing cost. Now, Visiware's developers no longer need to tailor source code for each handset available. Once written the intelligent Celsius software processes the source code into the best quality and optimized Java jar/jad for each handset, taking care of keyboard mapping management, text & fonts, sprites, sounds, http connection, accessing heap memory, etc.
Laurant Weill, Executive Chairman, Visiware said, "Having access to the Celsius software enables our contractors and developers to operate within a powerful, unified development framework. We need to produce multitudes of builds under stringent time constraints and Mobile Distillery is helping us make the game porting process faster and manageable across our network of partners and clients."
"We are at a crunch time for the mobile game industry. In order for it to grow profitably, developers need to be able to focus on creativity and not on the base line nuances that make up a mobile phone." said Vincent Berge, co-founder and general manager, Mobile Distillery.
Under the agreement, Visiware will use the Celsius V3 software to port over its games onto mobile devices over three years. Celsius's ease-of-use and scalable architecture enables developers to simply manage and update original source code for all new up-coming handsets, thus playing a vital role in the triple play (TV-MOBILE-BROADBAND) vision that Visiware is dedicated to supplying to the gaming community.
"Working for a leader like Visiware demonstrates the maturity of our technology and the shared vision for the evolution of gaming technologies and accessibility platforms. Enabling all our customers, including Visiware, access to our solution ensures that we can provide them with the ability to keep up with the changing developments within the industry and stay ahead of their competitors." added Vincent Berge, Mobile Distillery.
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About Visiware
Expert in casual gaming, the French company Visiware is the world-leading provider of interactive TV games. It publishes and distributes games for Television, Mobile and Broadband/Internet. Its game TV channels (Playin'TV, Playin'Casino, MiniKids TV, etc.) reach more than 120 million homes within 77 countries, on more than 30 cable, satellite and IPTV networks. Thanks to its unique Triple Play game offer, subscribers have now the freedom to play anywhere, anytime. Visiware addresses the whole family with the first true convergent gaming offer on three platforms and a catalog of more than 200 games. The company develops its own licenses of all genres (classics, cards, arcade, sport, thinking, educational, casino, etc.) and also partners with major entertainment companies such as Universal Studios (King Kong, The Fast & The Furious), Fremantle Media (Family Feud, Price is Right, Going for Gold), Mattel (Scrabble) in order to bring excitement to all the players. More on www.visiware.com .
About Mobile Distillery
Specialised in mobile Java technologies, especially J2ME and Doja, Mobile Distillery develops and sells unique solutions, enabling the optimisation and porting of mobile Java applications across more than 450 (Nov 2006) Java handsets in just a few clicks. These solutions radically simplify and optimise applications development processes, reduce porting cycles whilst generating cost savings, and accelerating time-to-market. Mobile Distillery's customers include game and mobile application publishers and developers, mobile marketing agencies and mobile Java engineering companies.
For more information, please visit, www.mobile-distillery.com or contact:
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