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June 7, 2008

Movial, a small Helsinki-based software company that specializes in mobile wireless applications has launched a Linux-based toolkit which enables mobile software developers to use Internet-based technologies to program mobile user interfaces.

Movial's new toolkit is designed to significantly reduce development times.

Since the company was founded two years ago, it has been working mostly as a subcontractor for telecom operators.

The battle for the developer community has increased sharply in recent months in the mobile world with Google and Microsoft pushing hard into the wireless industry with their own mobile and wireless offerings of all sorts.

The wireless industry has started to look increasingly at a much larger Internet developer community, but so far the need for expert knowledge of mobile software has kept wireless developers on the sidelines most of the time.

Nokia, the world's Number One phone manufacturer has offered 84.4 million pounds (US $214.5 million) for TrollTech Inc. at the beginning of the year, in order to get access to the Norwegian firm's software tools and other Linux development toolkits.

Source: IT Direction.

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