K3 - fourth Competence Center to join UIQ Alliance

Ronneby, Sweden, 20 June 2005 – UIQ Technology today announced K3, KanriKogaku Kenkyusho, Ltd., as the fourth Competence Center to join the UIQ Alliance partner program. K3 has a solid position in Japan as a profession company providing customers with high performance and cost effective software services, both for international companies and the Japanese market.

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“We are very pleased to have started a cooperation with K3”, says Carina Dietmann, Head of Marketing at UIQ Technology. “K3 is a company highly specialized in mobile phone internationalization and localization, with extensive expertise in developing mobile phones with Symbian OS licensees. This will be a great benefit to our customers in speeding up the development of UIQ based phones”. 

K3 has long and broad experience working with world-leading mobile phone manufacturers. K3 can offer training on UIQ 3, professional consultancy services and software solutions to help UIQ customers reduce product development time and increase productivity.

Members of UIQ Alliance, and their partner solutions, are acknowledged by UIQ Technology. UIQ Alliance partners can join the program by invitation only.

About UIQ Technology

UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. UIQ based phones are powerful and give access to enterprise applications, email, multimedia clips and web pages. UIQ is for example used in mobile phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ and Arima. UIQ Technology, established 1999 in Sweden, is a fully owned subsidiary of Symbian Ltd.

About KanriKogaku Kenkyusho, K3 

Kanrikogaku Kenkyusho is a specialist in mobile phone internationalization and localization. It has expertise in developing mobile phones with Symbian OS licensees, handling local language and optimizing UIs to specific form factors. K3 offers consulting services in special areas including systems programming, Japanese language processing, localization of foreign software, scientific computation, artificial intelligence applications, and microprocessor applications. K3 is based in Japan, with three offices in Tokyo and Hokuriku. 
Kanrikogaku Kenkyusho, Ltd. (K3)

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