DiVitas Networks Brings its Mobile Unified Communications Expertise to the Symbian Ecosystem
DiVitas Joins the Symbian Partner Program
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., May 12, 2008 – DiVitas Networks™, a leader in Mobile Unified Communications (Mobile UC), today announced that it has joined the Symbian Partner Program giving it better access to Symbian developers and developer tools. This closer relationship allows DiVitas to support the growing market for Symbian mobile phones by extending the DiVitas Mobile UC solution to the Symbian ecosystem.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the market-leading open operating system for mobile phones. To date, over 188 million Symbian mobile phones have been shipped worldwide by the world’s leading handset manufacturers.
Symbian enables a thriving ecosystem of partners, handset vendors, network operators, developers and other key mobile players to create added value for the growing mobile phone market. This value is cultivated by the continuing development and commercialization of new and innovative software solutions and award-winning applications for Symbian OS and its user interface platforms including MOAP, S60 and UIQ.
“Our partnership with Symbian reflects our commitment to the Mobile UC market and our dedication to enhance our mobile strategy further,” said Vivek Khuller, President and CEO of DiVitas Networks. “By becoming a Symbian Partner, we can expand our Mobile UC solution and strengthen our relationships with the Symbian ecosystem of users, application developers, handset manufacturers and carriers.”
“Unified Communications has the attention of companies worldwide. With IDC predicting that global shipments of smartphones should reach the 1 billion units mark by 2011, it’s clear there’s s lot of untapped potential in this market,” said Mike Whittingham, VP, Ecosystem Development, Symbian. “With the DiVitas solution in the Symbian ecosystem, we’ll continue to offer best-in-class products and services to our customers.”
About Symbian Partners
Symbian partners with companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partner
About Symbian Limited
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for smartphones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q4 2007, 22.4 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 31 December 2007 to 188 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and Japan. For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.
About DiVitas Networks
Founded in 2005, DiVitas Networks has rapidly become the leader in Mobile Unified Communications. DiVitas offers the first solution to mobilize corporate voice and messaging (deskphone, IM, contacts and presence) for businesses by unifying them onto a smartphone. DiVitas’ “seamless roaming” enables its solution to operate transparently over cellular or WiFi or both. DiVitas provides organizations complete management and control over its mobile solution by providing IT the ability to track usage, customize features and implement policies. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, DiVitas Networks is backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. More information is available at www.divitas.com.
DiVitas Contact:
Jenni Adair
Sr. Director of PR
650.605.0909
jenni.adair@divitas.com
Symbian Contact:
Val Breslow
V. Breslow Communications (for Symbian)
858.337.4217
valbreslow@earthlink.net
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