Akira Technologies Nominated for OnHollywood 100 - a Power List of Top Digital Entertainment and Media Innovators; Flagship Product, Publisher 2.0, Empowers Users with Ability to Create Compelling, Interactive Content for Mobile Devices.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Akira Technologies, a leader in publishing technologies for mobile networks and devices, today announced it has been nominated by the editors of AlwaysOn Networks as a contender for the OnHollywood 100, their list of top digital entertainment and media innovators. Companies are evaluated by innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation. Akira recently announced its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Publisher 2.0, a web-based publishing and content management tool that empowers users with the ability to create compelling, interactive content for mobile devices. Akira customers can use the Publisher 2.0 publishing tool to rapidly deliver any form of industry-standard digital content to mobile devices, including video, audio, images, text, vector graphics The representation of a digital image as points, lines and other geometric entities. All computer-aided design (CAD), drawing and diagramming programs create vector graphics formats, such as AI, DXF and WMF (see graphics formats). , and dynamic data such as blogs and RSS feeds. Publisher 2.0 greatly increases the number of mobile devices that content providers can distribute to by overcoming device and carrier fragmentation issues, increases return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) by speeding up productivity and time to market, and works with inherent bandwidth constraints of mobile devices. Since the introduction of Publisher 2.0, Akira has signed on Nacio Systems as its first customer. Nacio will use Publisher 2.0 mobile publishing Mobile publishing is the act of making something public through mobile phones. One advantage for publishers is the ease of adding the cost of downloading content to the users' phone bills. Mobile music revenues (mostly from ringtones) amounted to $400m in 2005. technology to offer a single, unified solution for visual design, authoring, hosting, deploying, and distributing rich, Akira-enabled content and applications to mobile devices. In addition, Nacio will provide application development and analytics for tracking metrics that are important for markets such as advertising, online marketing, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and entertainment. "We are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the top emerging technology companies and content producers in the digital entertainment, media, and advertising sectors," said Private Companies Analyst Ryan Brenner, AlwaysOn. "Our editorial staff and partners at KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen will be reviewing the nominees and selecting the top 100 digital media companies." The winners of the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at OnHollywood 2006, May 2-4, at The Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA, featured in the Spring issue of AlwaysOn's magazine, and profiled on www.alwayson-network.com. About Akira Technologies (www.akiraone.com) Akira Technologies is a leader in publishing technologies for mobile networks and devices. Akira products enable publishing of rich interactive media that is operating system, hardware, and network independent. Akira technology is based on open standards and solves the problems of device fragmentation, authoring productivity, device constraints, and bandwidth limitations, in the mobile market today. Akira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . For more information, visit our website at www.akiraone.com. Akira and the Akira logo are trademarks of Akira Technologies, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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