Swedish Company Ikivo AB Signes Distribution Agreement With Infineon



Stockholm, Sweden, -/9 March, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- The Swedish software company Ikivo AB (former Zoomon Mobile Solutions AB) has signed a licence and distribution agreement with Infineon Technologies, the world's forth-largest semiconductor manufacturer. Under the licence and distribution agreement, Ikivo's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Player will be provided for Infineon's chipsets and the APOXI application framework.

"The announcement of the cooperation with Infineon provides a valuable extension of the existing sales channels for our products. The cooperation will allow customers to purchase our technology integrated in Infineon's framework solution, hence further reducing implementation time and project risks" said Stefan Elmstedt, CEO of Ikivo.

The Ikivo SVG Player is the market leading solution for mass-market mobile phones that enable a richer media experience based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). With the Ikivo SVG Player solution, mobile phones are enabled for advanced services such as handset personalisation, mobile browsing, screensavers, themes & mobile UI design based on SVG Tiny (W3C).

APOXI? (Application Programming Object-Oriented Extendable Interface) application framework facilitates the reuse of applications over several product generations. It provides an open application protocol interface (API) thus enabling easy integration of third party applications, such as WAP, browsers and MMI (Man Machine Interfaces). Major applications such as WAP, MMS, Java, Voice Recognition, Email and SyncML are available through an extensive partner network.

About Ikivo AB

Ikivo (formerly Zoomon) based in Stockholm, Sweden is the leading developer of software solutions for Mobile SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). These solutions address the needs of mobile device manufacturers, mobile operators and content creators, empowering them to create and enable rich, compelling media services for mass-market mobile phones. Core products include the Ikivo SVG Player, a standard, compliant technology that allows phone manufacturers to enable their devices for Mobile SVG, and Ikivo Animator, a professional content creation tool that integrates into any design workflow to animate static SVG content for mobile phones. Ikivo is an active participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), instrumental in driving industry standards and shaping the future of mobile graphics. http://www.ikivo.com


Further information on Infineon available at http://www.infineon.com