mBricks winner of Telenor Partner Prize for 2009
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - (Fornebu, 27 November 2009) Fighting off stiff competition from 15other companies, mBricks came out as this year's winner of theTelenor Partner Prize and NOK 100,000. In collaboration withSuperOffice, mBricks developed an ideal solution for providing PCsolutions on mobiles.This is the first time that Telenor has awarded the partner prize."Telenor wants to stimulate innovation of new solutions and services.This prize was established in order to highlight particularlysuccessful solutions created by our partners. We hope that the prizewill stimulate continued collaboration and growth with our partners,"explains Abraham Foss, Head of Business Markets at Telenor Norway.In the partner competition, mBricks put forward a framework for thedevelopment of applications for mobile phones and demonstrated theuse of the framework with a solution that it had developed withSuperOffice. mBricks' technology is designed to enable PC solutionsto be provided on mobiles. The technology helps developers to createa single application that can be used on the great majority ofmobiles phones, with a very good user interface, and that makes useof the mobile's various resources, such as its camera, memory andGPS."We are very grateful for the recognition that the jury has givenmBricks with this prize. We are now looking forward to continuing ourexciting collaboration with Telenor in order to realise our commongoal of making our companies' PC solutions available on ordinarymobile phones, both in Norway and internationally," mBricks' CEOSvein Therkelsen says. "Telenor is one of the leading operators thatboth stimulates innovative solutions and, very importantly, actuallyimplements new technology for its customers. We value ourcollaboration with Telenor highly and we are making every effort tocontinue to develop technical solutions that will provideuser-friendly services for its customers," Therkelsen continues."With mBricks' technology, developers can create a solution thatfunctions across all mobile phones that can operate Java, and in sodoing to reach the great majority of mobile users," says Frank Elter,who heads up the jury at Telenor. Elter believes that mBricks'development platform will stimulate the development of advancedmobility solutions. The collaboration with SuperOffice shows thatsuch solutions are now commercially mature. Developers can focus on asingle platform instead of producing adapted solutions for the greatvariety of different types of phones. The solution also has apotential for internationalisation. "The jury believes that thissolution will enable a great many companies and users to benefit frommobile solutions both in Norway and internationally," Elter says.The Telenor jury consisted of Stein Tømmer, Pål Normann Johannsen,Hans Christian Hauglie and its foreman Frank Elter.For further information:Frank Elter, Director of Business Development at Telenor Norway, tel.+47 90175829Svein Therkelsen, CEO of mBricks; tel. +47 90125826This announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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