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May 2003 - Nokia added momentum to the growing mobile
content publishing market today by announcing its Mobile
Internet Toolkit 4.0. The announcement propels rich
mobile content further along the path to widespread
acceptance by providing several new features that enhance
the environment for mobile application and content developers.
Chief
among these is the incorporation of the content publishing
feature of Digital Rights Management version 1.0 from
the Open Mobile Alliance. The use of this industry-wide
standard allows developers and publishers to protect
the intellectual property value of applications and
content they provide to mobile devices. The OMA DRM
version 1.0 standards provides three digital rights
management methods to enable secure mobile content delivery:
via forward lock (one-time, non-forwardable content),
combined delivery (content that includes usage rules),
and separate delivery (content can be forwarded, but
has DRM protection).
In
a recent report Zelos Group Senior Analyst Seamus McAteer
highlighted integrated support for DRM as a crucial
concern for developers and publishers. In the report
McAteer maintained, "Basic DRM is an essential component
necessary to encourage major media companies to make
branded content available on wireless networks."
Version
4.0 of the Mobile Internet Toolkit also gives developers
several improvements in versatility and ease-of-use.
These include an Update Manager that informs users when
new tools, add-ons and SDKs become available through
the Forum Nokia website, as well as added support for
non-Latin content character encodings to create content
in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.
The
Toolkit features support for a wide variety of protocols
including WML, xHTML, WAP, and multimedia messaging
service (MMS). MMS allows users to send messages combining
text, images, graphics and sound in a single "rich"
message. The toolkit offers further ease-of-use through
its integrated MMS wizards, which generate MMS content
in several different modes, including automatic generation
from SMIL content and step-by-step part selection, streamlining
the process for rapid content development. The Nokia
Mobile Internet Toolkit Starter Pack offers a complete
"self-contained" solution for out-of-the-box development,
including a WAP gateway simulator that eliminates the
need for an external server or gateway.
According
to Lee Epting, vice president & general manager, Forum
Nokia, "The enhancements in Mobile Internet Toolkit
version 4.0 provide a compelling argument for developing
and distributing mobile applications and content on
Nokia devices. The increased DRM protection improves
the ability to generate revenues, while all the ease-of-use
features and added versatility make it very easy to
begin developing."
Nokia
Mobile Internet Toolkit has a long-running history of
excellence. Version 3.0 ranked as the most often-used
wireless application tool in a survey by independent
software development research firm Evans Data Corp.
In addition, the predecessor toolkit - Nokia WAP Toolkit
2.1 - was recognized as the "SDK of the Year" at the
2001 Wireless Developer Conference. The new Mobile Internet
Toolkit 4.0 is available via a free download at www.forum.nokia.com/tools.
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