INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open standard
contactless chip technologies, and leader in NFC technology, announced
its partnership with Mobile Distillery, a specialist java mobile porting
Software Company, to develop an interoperable Java ME solution for NFC
developers.
INSIDE and Mobile Distillery’s partnership project aims to design a
software solution for the development of portable NFC/Java Mobile
Applications across multiple NFC phones. Based on Mobile Distillery’s
Celsius architecture, the solution is dedicated to Mobile Software
developers who will need to cope with multiple implementations of NFC
technologies, which adds yet another complexity to the development of
Java ME applications across multiple handsets.
By using the new, NFC Celsius module, the developer will work on the
NFC/Java ME application once, and run it across all NFC phones without
any further modifications. Accelerated time-to-market, reduction of
costs and an easy transfer to upcoming NFC phones will be the great
advantages of NFC Celsius module, which will enable easier and faster
adoption of NFC technology.
The partnership is divided into two phases: firstly in the short term
âÃÂthe two companies will be developing a Celsius NFC prototype within the
Q3 2007 timeframe. The second step, planned for Q1 2008, will consist of
the joint development of NFC Celsius module, a complete set of Java ME
NFC tools covering the commercially available NFC handsets and ones for
the near future.
“The NFC Developers Summit shows that there are great expectations from
developers, content and service providers to supply mobile users with
innovative applications based on NFC. As a reference mobile execution
platform, Java ME enjoyed a tremendous success over the past 5 years, it
is widely recognized by the mobile developers community, but it also
undergoes an irresistible trend to fragmentation, with significantly
different implementations in handsets from various vendors. As an NFC
pioneer and market leader, INSIDE believes that interoperability is a
key success factor in delivering NFC-based services. We have a role to
play and the proper expertise to bring the full benefits of the NFC
standard to the NFC developers community.” comments Philippe Martineau,
INSIDE’s EVP of the NFC Business Line.
“We are very pleased to partner with a leading NFC company such as
INSIDE Contactless. By combining both leading edge expertise, a typical
mobile application developer won’t have to adapt his application weekly
to cover Europe and the US, since one new NFC phone is expected every
week in 2008.” Said, Vincent Berge, Co-Founder & general manager, Mobile
Distillery. ” With this turn-key Celsius NFC solution, mobile developers
will focus on their added value, while accessing a new range of mobile
applications in a few clicks ” .
During the summit, INSIDE Contactless spokespeople will be available on
booth A7 and Tim Baker, INSIDE’s Advanced Marketing Director will be
giving a panorama of NFC-related execution environments, “The driving
forces in handset architecture”, on Wednesday, April 18th at 2:30 p.m.
On the same day at 4:30 p.m., Vincent Berge will speak about “Developing
NFC application across multiple handsets”.
About INSIDE Contactless
Founded in 1995, INSIDE is headquartered in France and with global
presence in China, Singapore, Poland and the USA. INSIDE is uniquely
positioned as the only fabless semiconductor company solely dedicated to
the advancement of contactless technology, leveraging one of the
industry’s largest intellectual property portfolios. Through strategic
emphasis in Contactless Payments and Near Field Communications (NFC),
INSIDE has been on a rapid growth track over the past two years with
more than 15M chips delivered for contactless payment cards in the US
market and a dominant position in driving NFC standardization and pilot
deployments.
About Mobile Distillery and Celsius
Specialized in mobile Java and Brew technologies, Mobile Distillery
develops and sells a software solution suite, called Celsius, enabling
the optimisation and porting of mobile Java applications across more
than 550 (April 2007) 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
mobile marketing agencies & mobile Java engineering companies (Atos
Origin, Business Anywhere, Prylos, Altexia, CubeX, Playfone, âæ), and
game and mobile application publishers and developers (Visiware, Lexis
Mobile, Touchlink, Recreate, Wizarbox, Exkee, âæ), an a worldwide basis.
About NFC
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new, short-range wireless
connectivity technology that evolved from a combination of existing
contactless identification and interconnection technologies. Products
with built-in NFC will dramatically simplify the way consumer devices
interact with one another, helping people speed connections, receive and
share information and even make fast and secure payments.
Operating at 13.56 MHz and transferring data at up to 424 Kbits/second,
NFC provides intuitive, simple, and safe communication between
electronic devices. NFC is both a “read” and “write” technology.
Communication between two NFC-compatible devices occurs when they are
brought within four centimeters of one another: a simple wave or touch
can establish an NFC connection which is then compatible with other
known wireless technologies such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.. The underlying
layers of NFC technology follow ISO, ECMA, and ETSI standards. Because
the transmission range is so short, NFC-enabled transactions are
inherently secure. Also, physical proximity of the device to the reader
gives users the reassurance of being in control of the process.
NFC can be used with a variety of devices, from mobile phones that
enable payment or transfer information to digital cameras that send
their photos to a TV set with just a touch. The possibilities are
endless, and NFC is sure to take the complexities out of today’s
increasingly sophisticated consumer devices and make them simpler to use.
