LiMo Foundation(TM) announces SDK strategy

Broad SDK Strategy Builds on Recent Publication of APIs to Set Out Developer Roadmap

Barcelona, Spain (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Mobile World Congress -- LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, today announced the roll out of a comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK) strategy encompassing Native, Java and Webkit SDKs.

Announcing a further strong wave of new LiMo members and 18 initial LiMo handsets from 7 vendors at Mobile World Congress demonstrates that LiMo has attracted wide industry engagement since its launch one year ago, said Morgan Gillis, executive
director of LiMo Foundation. With the lineup of prestigious mobile industry leaders and innovators that now stands behind the platform, LiMo is positioned at the heart of an open mobile ecosystem that will connect developers with mobile consumers across all markets. LiMos open approach and broad SDK strategy recognizes the diverse strengths and talents of existing open developer communities empowering a diverse set of developers to innovate successfully within the mobile communications marketplace.

LiMos SDK suite will roll out from H2 2008 and provide common Eclipse-based tooling environments for supporting widespread development of software for LiMo handsets coming to market from Q4 2008. It will enable mobile software suppliers to concentrate on developing their own value-added technologies, while enabling developers to explore and work with advanced programming models within an open-source
environment. The SDK suite is being readied by LiMo board members, including ACCESS CO. LTD, Aplix Corporation, Azingo, Motorola and Wind River, and further strategic SDK partners will be announced in the near future.

The APIs for the first release of the LiMo Platform(TM) were recently made available to all mobile developers, and the R1 LiMo Platform itself is scheduled to be completed in March 2008, commented Hankil Yoon, vice president of Linux Platform and Devices at Samsung and chairperson of LiMos Architecture Council, who is leading the SDK initiative. Todays announcement is yet another positive step for the LiMo Foundation and the entire mobile community as our SDK strategy will attract significant developer engagement and exposure to the LiMo Platform, thereby stimulating a new wave of innovation in mobile applications, services and next-generation user experiences.

ACCESS has accumulated extensive experience in the provision of SDKs and technical support for large developer communities, said Toru Arakawa, president and chief executive officer of ACCESS. We have recently joined the Board of LiMo Foundation
because we can see rapid industry wide take up of the LiMo Platform and we intend to make strategic contributions that will benefit the whole LiMo ecosystemstarting with a comprehensive Native SDK.

Aplix is very excited by the progress LiMo Foundation has made, said John Rizzo, vice president, Technology Strategy of Aplix Corporation. Aplix's goals are to meet the full needs of Java ECO system and Java runtime environments that are required by commercial LiMo products.

The LiMo Foundation selected Azingo to provide advanced mobile Linux technologies to power its Common Integration Environment (CIE) and now were pleased to be extending these technologies to power LiMos SDK, said Mahesh Veerina, CEO of Azingo. Azingo Mobile is an innovative and comprehensive mobile platform based on LiMos software that is achieving broad industry support. We will leverage our innovations to help LiMo provide an SDK that can help developers create new applications for web 2.0, music, video, vivid graphics and more.

As a founding member of the LiMo Foundation and a leader in Linux-based mobile devices, Motorola is proud to contribute our technical knowledge in platform and tool creation to support the development of these SDKsincluding driving the requirements
behind the WebKit SDK, said Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Software Platforms & Ecosystem, Motorola.

Wind River is pleased that LiMo Foundation will extend the Common Integration Environment (CIE) based on Wind River's commercial Linux technology to enable LiMo's SDK suite for application developers, said Jason Whitmire, general manager of
mobile solutions at Wind River. LiMo's CIE provides the foundation for integrating and managing platform software contributions, and Wind River will work with LiMo Core Members to provide additional tools to facilitate integration and management of application code contributions from OEMs, ISVs and the open source community to support LiMo's rapidly evolving mobile phone stack and ecosystem.

Launched in January 2007, LiMo Foundation is open to all vendors and service providers in the mobile communications marketplace, including device manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, independent software vendors, integrators and
third-party developers. For more information on the LiMo Foundation and its guiding principles and bylaws, please visit www.limofoundation.org.

LiMos technology will be showcased in Booth 8b135, Hall 8 at Mobile World Congress, February 11-14 in Barcelona.

About LiMo Foundation

LiMo Foundation is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance modelwith shared leadership and shared decision makingto deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon Mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. A full description of LiMo, including its vision, goals, charter and membership information, can be found at www.limofoundation.org.

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Norkom software to boost Swedbank`s defences vs money laundering

Sydney, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Leading Northern European bank, Swedbank, is to strengthen its defences against financial crime and enhance its compliance with anti-money laundering regulation by choosing market-leading software from Norkom Technologies.

The bank will be able to use Norkom's software across its group operations in all the markets where the bank is present to increase its protection against financial crime and to ensure effective compliance with national and international regulations including the 3rd EU Money Laundering Directive.

The software will monitor Swedbank's transactions across all customers and accounts to detect, investigate, manage and report suspected money laundering attempts.

In addition to improving detection of suspicious activity using sophisticated analytics, the software's step by step investigation workflows and comprehensive alert and case management capabilities will deliver greater efficiency to the investigation process, significantly reducing costs and improving productivity.

Commenting on the agreement, Katarina Brome, head of operational risk and compliance at Swedbank said: "We have chosen to implement Norkom as an integral part of Swedbank's strategy to combat money laundering and ensuring long-term regulatory compliance. The Norkom solution will be a key ingredient to accurately detect and efficiently investigate money laundering activities.

"Norkom has a strong international track record, a well-proven AML solution combined with competent and highly committed people. The flexibility of the solution to be extended into other areas of financial crime is also an important factor for Swedbank," she added.

Norkom's chief commercial officer, Liam Griffin, commented: "As well as meeting the bank's current anti-money laundering requirements, in the future Swedbank will be able to benefit from the flexibility of our technology platform and its ability to address other types of financial crime across the enterprise. This provides Swedbank with the security of knowing that it can cost effectively evolve its use of the Norkom platform as its business needs change and grow."

The contract with Swedbank builds on Norkom Technologies' expanding blue chip client base, which includes leading financial services organizations such as HSBC, Credit Agricole, DnB NOR, Fortis, Rabobank, Standard Chartered Bank, Washington Mutual and Western Union.

Norkom's award-winning software has been described as 'outclassing its competitors' by the analyst group, Celent, and as an 'effective enterprise wide financial crime management solution' by Gartner. Norkom was also recognized as 'The Best Technology Solution' in Complinet's 2007 compliance awards, the number one for AML and fraud in the OpRisk & Compliance magazine's software rankings survey and 'Best AML Product' in the Banking Technology Awards.

About Norkom Technologies

Norkom is a market-leading provider of innovative financial crime and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry.

We enable organisations to take intelligent action, control their defences and evolve their strategies against financial crime. By combining our unique financial crime and compliance technology platform with our deep domain expertise and extensive client experience, we offer a comprehensive set of solutions which can be scaled and customized to meet clients' current and future needs -- from anti-money laundering and customer due diligence to enterprise investigation of all types of fraud.

Used by clients in over 100 countries, including HSBC, Credit Agricole, Fortis, Rabobank, Standard Chartered Bank, Washington Mutual and Western Union, Norkom is proven to reduce financial losses, protect reputation, improve operational efficiencies and lower the total cost of ownership. Norkom has operations across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe.

To find out more visit www.norkom.com
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