SymbianOne And Cognima Snap Together At Symbian Expo; Cognima Snap provides effortless photo upload for SymbianOne's Expo coverage.

We are pleased to announce that we will be bringing live images from the Symbian Expo show floor with the assistance of Cognima and Orange Partner using Cognima's revolutionary Snap technology. Right now a demonstration page is available and full coverage will start 5th October.

UK and New Zealand (PRWEB) September 24, 2004 -- Leading Symbian ecosystem web site SymbianOne and Cognima have combined forces to bring images and commentary from the Symbian Expo conference floor instantly to the web with Cognima Snap. Symbian Expo -- the smartphone show - is the only tradeshow dedicated to every aspect of the smartphone industry and takes place in London, UK, on the 5th and 6th of October 2004.

Cognima's Snap technology will provide regular updates from the Symbian Expo by enabling photos from the show to be uploaded onto the SymbianOne website instantly. The SymbianOne team will take photographs, add commentary, and immediately upload images to a web based blog to provide a unique insight into the show and meet SymbianOne's goal of providing its readers with comprehensive, up to the minute information on the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian Expo is the premiere event in the Symbian calendar and this year promises to be the biggest and most comprehensive gathering of the leading companies supplying Symbian OS products and services as well as the broader wireless market.

"The advantage of Cognima Snap is that it immediately provides the option to upload a picture to the web straight after it has been taken and then handles the whole upload invisibly in the background. The convenience of Cognima Snap will allow us to quickly gather high quality images and add commentary without worrying about complex upload procedures," says Richard Bloor, SymbianOne co-founder. "This will allow us to concentrate on covering the show."

"The Symbian Expo is a great place for us to join forces with SymbianOne to show Cognima Snap in action", said Simon East, CEO of Cognima. "A busy mobile phone exhibition like Expo tends to saturate the local mobile network coverage but Cognima Snap is designed to work in exactly these kinds of conditions to make sure the photos get delivered to the destination online photo album without any extra input being required from the user".

The project is being sponsored by Orange Partner - the global partner and developer programme from Orange, which fosters the development of new mobile technologies and services. As well as the SymbianOne team, several Cognima and Orange employees will also be using Cognima Snap to post their personal images and thoughts on the Expo via the SymbianOne web site.

A demonstration page is now available http://beta.cognima.net/expo and links to the SymbianOne photo coverage and additional pages from Cognima and Orange will be found at http://www.symbianone.com/symbianexpo

About Cognima

Cognima was established by Simon East, previously VP of Technology, Symbian, in 2001. A privately held company based in London, Cognima develops effortless mobile services.

Cognima believes that in order to create uptake of mobile data services they must be effortless to use and meet real user needs. Cognima has developed a set of innovative new services that meet these user requirements and therefore allow Network Operators, Handset Manufacturers and Service Providers to derive new revenue from their customers.

Cognima's patented data replication technology makes the operation of these services totally invisible to the user.

Cognima Snap has been selected by BonusPrint in the UK and OurPictures in the USA to provide the effortless photo upload to their photo services from mobile phones. Cognima Safeguard has been selected by CPP Group Plc to enable their Mobile Phone Data Protection service which is currently running as a pilot programme in a major Network Operator. Cognima is running trials of is services with 15 major Network Operators and Service Providers.

Cognima's website is www.cognima.com

About Cognima's data replication technology

Cognima's patented data replication technology was designed with a focus on reliability, minimal phone ROM footprint and cost-effectiveness. The client software in the phone is written in highly optimised C++ and has a very small ROM footprint. The client software is running on Symbian OS- based phones, Microsoft Smartphone 2002/3 based phones, Palm OS based devices, and TTPcom's phone development system. The server software is designed for integration with external systems through the use standard technologies such as J2EE, SyncML and Web Services and runs on industry standard server platforms for carrier grade availability and scalability. The back-end is built around BEA WebLogic 8.1 application server and Oracle 9i database server.

About SymbianOne

SymbianOne.com is the complete resource for keeping an eye on the Symbian market place with regular news and a weekly newsletter for up to date coverage of developments. This is complemented by in depth coverage of market sectors, such as games, development tools, usage case studies, and market analysis and employment opportunities. A joint venture with offices in Canada and New Zealand SymbianOne provides a unique global view of the Symbian economy. See www.SymbianOne.com

About Orange Partner

Orange Partner is a global partner and developer program from one of the world's leading mobile operators - Orange. The program provides mobile application developers with online training, a research database, tools, testing processes, application programming interfaces and peer-to-peer contact via the Orange Partner portal - http://developers.orange.com. It also provides access to Orange global development centres and a whole range of other support services to members of the program. Orange Partner has been created to provide support to developers wishing to develop and propose solutions for possible distribution to a 50m-plus customer base in 19 countries.

by SymbianOne/Cognima/Orange Partner

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