TTPCom Licenses Hybrid's Graphics Technology.HELSINKI, Finland & CAMBRIDGE, England -- Hybrid Graphics's 3D Graphics Technology to Be Pre-Integrated into TTPCom's AJAR Mobile Applications Platform Hybrid Graphics and TTPCom today announced a collaboration to pre-integrate Hybrid's 3D graphics and Scalable Vector Graphics (graphics, World-Wide Web) Scalable Vector Graphics - A W3C standard for vector graphics, based on XML. http://w3.org/Graphics/SVG/. Tiny (SVGT (SVG Tiny) See SVG. ) technologies into TTPCom's AJAR mobile application platform. As a result, customers using AJAR will be able to bring cost-effective multimedia phones with 3D and 2D graphics capabilities to the market quickly and with minimal software engineering effort. 3D graphics capability will grow in importance as the mobile gaming industry's growth accelerates. The research firm Strategy Analytics has recently observed a significant increase in the confidence of the mobile gaming market and expects it to grow six-fold over the next five years. Operators are supporting the growth by specifying handsets with 3D gaming functionality to boost average revenue per user figures. Furthermore, the inclusion of the increasingly popular SVGT technology allows handset designers to deliver animated user interfaces, screen savers and background images that match the exciting graphics available for mobile games. "Most new handsets have a lifespan of only a few months, driven by constant consumer and operator demands for the next new thing," says Panu Wilska, Hybrid's VP of Sales. "Consequently the faster the latest functionality, such as 3D graphics and SVGT can be brought to market, the greater the earnings potential for all parties. The pre-integration of our 3D graphics technology into AJAR will enable many more handset manufacturers to maximize the potential of the mobile gaming market as it continues to grow." Morten Iversen, Director, Partnership Programmes at TTPCom adds: "Hybrid's 3D and 2D graphics solutions are the most effective on the market today. They complement the existing technologies already pre-integrated in our AJAR platform, including MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. , Java applications, polyphonic The ability to play back some number of musical notes simultaneously. For example, 16-voice polyphony means a total of 16 notes, or waveforms, can be played concurrently. ringtones and text recognition to provide choice, cost effective development and rapid times to market for future generations of feature phones." The introduction of open graphics standards is changing the face of mobile content development considerably. Open standards make the business more accessible to a large variety of companies, as opposed to the situation where proprietary technologies limited the amount of players able to develop or sell their content to both device manufacturers and consumers. With a more open and accessible content market, operators will have richer, more appealing content and services available. About TTPCom's AJAR platform The TTPCom Ajar Platform combines a comprehensive applications framework, a toolset for the development and testing of applications and user interfaces and a complete suite of applications for today's leading-edge phones. It enables a single applications investment for low-end to high-end multimedia phones and portability across multiple modems and multiple architectures. The reduction in development costs and productivity benefits result in a reduced time-to-market whilst AJAR's flexibility enables handset manufacturers to quickly and easily develop a greater selection of products with a higher level of differentiation. A number of TTPCom and third party applications are pre-integrated, including Java(TM), MMS, email, WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. 2.0, digital camera support, embedded and downloadable games, polyphonic ringtone The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important. and music phone technology, voice recognition and multimedia content. About Hybrid's 3D and 2D graphics technology Hybrid's graphics technology provides an all-inclusive interface for bringing graphics capabilities to embedded devices. It consists of Hybrid's implementations of embedded 3D graphics standards M3G M3G Mobile 3D Graphics (JSR JSR Java Specification Request JSR J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Virginia) JSR Journal of Sedimentary Research JSR Jump to Subroutine (6502 processor instruction) 184), OpenGL ES and JSR 239 as well as 2D vector graphics standards OpenVG, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. , SVGT and JSR 226, all important pieces of a complete roadmap solution. The technology can be used to bring graphics capabilities to any embedded device, from mobile phones to automobiles and home electronics. Hybrid Graphics Ltd. Hybrid Graphics of Helsinki, Finland is the market leading embedded 3D graphics software provider. The company has over 10 years of experience in developing graphics technology solutions for consumer devices, and is the maker of the first official OpenGL ES API software implementation. Hybrid participates in Java JSR standard groups and is a board member of the Khronos Group, the consortium responsible for OpenGL ES and other graphics standards for embedded devices. Hybrid's clients are leading device and hardware manufacturers, who currently command over half of the total mobile phone market. The clients include Nokia, Ericsson, Philips, Symbian, Esmertec, Bitboys, and Fathammer. For more information see www.hybrid.fi TTPCom Ltd. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, TTPCom Ltd. is the principal operating subsidiary of TTP TTP (thymidine triphosphate): see thymine. Communications plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : TTC TTC Trying To Conceive TTC Toronto Transit Commission TTC Trans Texas Corridor TTC Toutes Taxes Comprises (French) TTC Trident Technical College (North Charleston, SC) TTC Temporary Traffic Control ). The company develops intellectual property used in the design and manufacture of wireless communication terminals. TTPCom licenses its technology to leading semiconductor and terminal manufacturers worldwide, including Analog Devices, Intel, LG, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Renesas, Sharp and Siemens. TTPCom has established a world leading position with its GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. , EDGE and 3G-protocol software; offers rapid customization of handsets through its AJAR applications framework; and for those manufacturers for whom a fast time to market is critical, TTPCom also offers complete module designs. More than 40 million devices using TTPCom technology were shipped in 2004. For more information see www.ttpcom.com |
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