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Play, share and compete via the N-Gage(TM) Arena Wednesday, August 20 2003
Online and mobile game play has become a reality today, as Nokia reveals the N-Gage(TM) Arena service. Available globally, the N-Gage(TM) Arena will be the home for the worldwide virtual community of gamers, to share their experiences and to find other players for mobile online fun. The service will go live on October 7, 2003 the date when the Nokia N-Gage game deck will be commercially available globally for consumers. The content services are initially offered as free of charge to consumers for a trial period, allowing them to trial the N-Gage(TM) Arena. While content will be offered free of charge, the data traffic fees are applied according operator specific
data plans. For operators, the service will enable fast and easy access in the N-Gage business. And for publishers, the service will open new revenue opportunities for their game titles.
"Mobile online elements form a key strategy in the Nokia N-Gage total games experience. The N-Gage(TM) Arena will be the place where gamers meet and create virtual communities, share their experiences, find new challenges and make friends with players all over the world," said Ilkka Raiskinen, Senior Vice President and the Chief N-Gager, Nokia Mobile Phones. "For the first time, a gamer sitting in a park in London can find another player and 'shadow race' against a player in Los Angeles or even Singapore, who has posted a shadow image of his game character in the N-Gage(TM) Arena. The London gamer can in
turn post a clip of the game on the site, showing his victory and simultaneously challenge the rest of the game community. We are incredibly thrilled by the versatility of opportunities by this virtual games arena."
The ability to play, share and compete over the air makes the N-Gage(TM) Arena unique in the mobile industry, complementing the games experience and extending business strategies for operators and publishers alike. Nokia will host the service and it will be offered to the gamers through operators. Nokia will also provide publishers
and developers the tools to create new and compelling online content for their games.
Some of the key launch features of the N-Gage(TM) Arena include: cheats (downloads that boost the characters abilities or help the player out of a sticky situation), game clips (gamer records a game sequence and uploads it for other players to view), Shadow Gaming (gamer posts a "shadow" of his/her character, which other players can
contest), strategy guides and walk-throughs (game recordings to demonstrate how a game challenge is solved), high score posting, as well as 2-player gaming in a live situation. All of these N-Gage(TM) Arena services take place in a mobile environment allowing gamers on-the-fly, immediate access that only N-Gage can provide.
Source: Nokia
Adellion : Publishing and Management Deal Signed Wednesday, August 20 2003
HonourBound Ltd and Alchemic Dream Inc have just concluded an agreement concerning the publishing and management of the game Adellion in German, Spanish, French and English. Alchemic Dream Inc will take care of the server hosting, payment management, marketing and community management.
Adellion is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game) in a medieval setting.
Adellion will be a diverse and vast world with many possibilities and options for the player. In fact anyone with enough dedication should be able to directly affect Adellion's future. Founding a town, leading an army and farming land and many more things will be possible for the player to do.
The permadeath, the building of Empires, the technology tree and the multiple innovations are some of the unique and original elements of Adellion. For more information concerning Adellion, please visit the website http://www.adellion.com
Source: Adellion
PalmSource and M-Systems Advance Memory Storage for Palm Powered Mobile Devices Friday, August 8 2003
PalmSource, provider of the popular operating system for handheld and smartphone devices, and Palm OS(R) subsidiary of Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM), and M-Systems (Nasdaq: FLSH), an innovator of flash-based data storage products, today announced plans to enhance the memory solution for Palm OS handhelds and smartphones. Joining the Palm OS Ready Program, M-Systems' NAND flash-based memory storage technologies will be made available to Palm OS licensees. M-Systems' approach to managing flash memory is designed to allow licensees to speed time-to-market and lower overall device costs for Palm Powered(TM) handhelds and smartphones. M-Systems joins the list of Palm OS Ready Partners that include Intel, ATI, MediaQ, Motorola, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
"With the increasing demand for storage-heavy multimedia usage, we believe that M-Systems' addition to our Palm OS Ready Program delivers the depth of storage components our Palm OS licensees have been requesting," said Larry Slotnick, chief product officer for PalmSource. "M-Systems' expertise in memory-storage technology will enable Palm OS licensees to deliver a wide range of Palm Powered mobile devices with cost effective memory management solutions needed to efficiently store a variety of multimedia formats."
As Palm Powered mobile devices continue to expand into multimedia, wireless and enterprise usages, higher-capacity storage systems become increasingly critical. Through the Palm OS Ready Program, M-Systems and PalmSource will provide pre-integrated support for M-Systems' mobile DiskOnChip product family to offer a high capacity, non-volatile, flash memory storage system for Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones. Based on M-Systems' family of products that introduced NAND and Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND technologies and a built-in ultra thin controller, mobile DiskOnChip provides high memory system performance, enables reliable storage, saves on power consumption and reduces overall system cost. M-Systems' unique storage architecture also ensures data reliability guaranteeing that users never lose their data even after power failure.
"Mobile DiskOnChip, based on the most advanced NAND technologies, allows Palm OS licensees to provide the storage requirements for new features and capabilities such as cameras, color screens, voice recognition, games, and video," said David Tolub, vice president and co-manager of M-Systems' DiskOnChip business unit. "Our expanded role within the Palm Economy ensures that licensees and consumers, using this new storage capability, will have improved access to the cost reduction, power savings, increased performance, and data integrity that Mobile DiskOnChip offers."
"The Palm OS Ready program allows PalmSource to offer its licensees a strong selection of established technology partners," said Tim Bajarin, analyst for Creative Strategies. "M-Systems expertise in flash storage technologies allows PalmSource to enhance its offerings to include reliable internal data storage at increased capacities -- a key component to new Palm Powered devices."
Palm OS Ready Program
Launched in July 2001, the Palm OS Ready program allows industry-leading component providers to drive faster innovation of Palm Powered Devices and foster growth throughout the Palm Economy. Combining access to key components of Palm OS technology with in-depth technical training and resources, the Palm OS Ready Program allows silicon providers to deliver more complete solutions to the Palm OS licensee community enabling Palm OS licensees to bring innovative and differentiated Palm Powered mobile devices to market faster and more efficiently.
About M-Systems
M-Systems is a leader and innovator of flash-based data storage products known as flash disks. M-Systems' flash disks provide the functionality of a mechanical hard drive in a silicon chip. M-Systems' products are based on its patented TrueFFS(R) technology and target applications in a vast array of markets, including connected devices, mobile and telecom. M-Systems' products include the DiskOnChip(R), DiskOnKey(R) and Fast Flash Disk (FFD(TM)) product families. For more information, please contact M-Systems at www.m-sys.com.
About PalmSource
PalmSource is the company behind Palm OS, the popular operating system for handhelds and smartphone devices. Licensed by industry leaders -- including Aceeca, AlphaSmart, Fossil, Garmin, GSL, Handspring, HuneTec, Kyocera, Legend, Palm Solutions Group, Samsung, Sony, Symbol and Tapwave as well as Palm OS Ready Partners including ATI, Intel, MediaQ, Motorola, Samsung, Texas Instruments -- Palm OS has been shipped to date on more than 29 million handhelds and smartphones, and given rise to a large community of users, enterprises, developers and manufacturers, who together make up the Palm Economy. PalmSource is a subsidiary of Palm Inc. More information about PalmSource is available at www.palmsource.com.
NOTE: Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm Powered is a trademark of PalmSource Inc. a subsidiary of Palm Inc. Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: Palm
Palm Moves One Step Closer to Closing Handspring Acquisition Friday, August 8 2003
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) and Handspring, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAND) today announced that the waiting period required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Anti-Trust Improvements Act for Palm's proposed acquisition of Handspring has expired. The acquisition is expected to close in the fall, subject to certain conditions, including approval from both companies' stockholders.
"Passing the HSR waiting period moves us another step toward delivering what we believe is the broadest portfolio of mobile computing and communications solutions from the most-experienced leadership team in the industry," said Todd Bradley, Palm Solutions' president and chief executive officer. Bradley will lead the company that will result from Palm's acquisition of Handspring.
Related information can be found in Palm's news releases dated June 4, 2003, (http://ir.palm.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=palm&script=411&layout=- 6&item_id=418770 ) and July 3, 2003, (http://pressroom.palm.com/InvestorRelations/PubNewsStory.aspx?partner=Mzg0TlR FMU1BPT1QJFkEQUALSTO&product=MzgwU1ZJPVAkWQEQUALSTOEQUALSTO&storyId=90417 ).
Source: Palm
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