2nd Apr 2009 07:00
Artilium and Microsoft Partner on Mobile Application Innovation
Artilium Announces ARTA8 General Availability on June 30, 2009
Amsterdam April 2, 2009 - Today, Artilium plc, developer of advanced Mobile 2.0 software for telecoms networks, and Microsoft Corp., announced their partnership to build a mobile application developer ecosystem today at an oversubscribed developer evangelism day at Microsoft's Dutch subsidiary headquarters outside Amsterdam, where attendees will be taught how to best utilize familiar Microsoft tools and technologies to build unique experiences for Artilium's ARTA Mobile Applications Platform via the Windows Mobile platform including the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and .NET Compact Framework 3.5. With more than 20,000 applications already in market, Windows Mobile is among the most popular platforms for developers. Windows Mobile 6.5, the next generation of the Windows Mobile operating system, will allow developers to build innovative mobile applications without having to learn new skills or programming languages, by leveraging familiar desktop and server development tools such as Win32, Active Template Library and Microsoft Foundation Classes (Visual C++), Visual C#, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET and asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).
"Microsoft's strong relationship with developers has led to some of the most exciting innovations in the software industry" said Ruud de Jonge, Director of Development and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Netherlands. "We'll continue our collaboration with Artilium to engage developers. The response to this seminar is evidence of the incredible opportunity that mobile represents to applications developers."
At the event, Artilium announced the June 30, 2009 general availability of ARTA8, the next generation of its mobile applications platform, with industry leading innovation that includes:
1. Flexible and fast mobile network connectivity via ARTA Direct Network Access (DNA), a cloud-based media orchestration architecture and session control infrastructure, enables rapid connectivity, secure mobile network access, and cross-network interoperability, enabling 'always-on' intelligent signal and content processing/routing, cross-network
2. Real-time subscriber data extraction and pattern matching via ARTA Mobile Presence, a behavioural profiling system based on continuous, intelligent, capture, combination and categorization of geo-spatial location, status and connectivity data to enable intelligent mapping and routing of highly relevant social networking, advertising and content delivery services
3. Rapid applications delivery infrastructure via ARTA AppLAB, an online collaborative ecosystem and commercial marketplace that unites applications developers with operators, advertisers, brands, and service providers, centralizing, harmonizing and structuring cooperation, providing legal regulation and financial brokerage services to speed time-to-market and safeguard payment
Artilium's Chief Executive Officer, Robert Marcus said,"Today marks achievement of a key milestone for Artilium, directly engaging the developer community with Microsoft to demonstrate the ease and speed of application and mashup development for mobile networks on ARTA. We're thrilled also, to announce that ARTA8, the output of a powerful new wave of engineering innovation at Artilium will release to general availability on schedule by June 30, 2009. Developers at today's event will be working on pre-release versions of ARTA8."
About Artilium
Artilium develops advanced Mobile 2.0 software for telecoms networks. The Company's ARTA Mobile Applications Platform opens mobile telecoms networks to third-party applications and connected social media, generating a new value-chain that includes advertisers, content providers, Internet service providers, social networks, mobile network operators and software developers.
Founded in 1995, the Company has more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of users in 11 countries. Artilium is a publicly listed company on AIM of the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA) with offices in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit: www.artilium.com
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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