Monaco 24^th April 2009 - Mobile Distillery, the leading NFC porting platform for NFC embedded phones and NFC enabled phones (via BT or other systems) and Stollmann, the leader in portable, modular protocol stacks for NFC, ISDN and Bluetooth, which can be used in mobile phones, embedded and PC-based devices, announced at WIMA 2009 that they are cooperating to ease the adoption of NFC technology.

NFC has two contrasting reputations. One for being a technology that will revolutionize the way that consumers will use electronic devices, particularly mobile phones, and the other that the industry forecasts for start of the “NFC revolution” have been pushed out several times. All the numerous trials worldwide have returned unanimous and enthusiastic consumer acceptance yet much of the talk in the NFC sector today is about how the ecosystem can work together to launch mainstream consumer services. This is where the association between the Mobile Distillery and Stollmann cooperation comes into play.

“During conversations at previous NFC events we realized that we were both working on a common goal but at different levels of the software architecture. Both of us are working to ease the use of NFC technology by smoothing out the difference in hardware or software implementations. By coordinating our research and development efforts we can ensure that an application using NFC could be ported with the maximum reliability and minimum effort across a large number of hardware platforms” commented Vincent Berge CEO of Mobile Distillery.

“We have been involved in embedded software for almost 30 years and we know that non-compatibility despite the existence of standards has seriously limited the domains of application and the quality of the user experience in technologies such as Bluetooth” said Christian Lührs, CEO of Stollmann E+V GmbH. ”Our cross platform NFC stack removes this blocking point and allows device manufacturers to concentrate on their core business.”

Writing applications using the Celsius framework will give automatic benefits to phones using Stollmann’s stacks. Developers using the Celsius framework benefit from time saving on creating their applications and ease-of-use when porting Stollmann’s stacks across mobile devices.

It may sound all rather abstract for the man in the street, but this cooperation between two leading engineering companies in their own field means that the long awaited NFC revolution could happen just that much sooner, and the technical difficulties of implementing the same consumer application across different NFC platforms can be reduced to a minimum.

About Mobile Distillery

A specialist in mobile technologies and in-depth handset knowledge, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to solve the platform and handset fragmentation issue that developers face when developing Mobile content and services. Its software solutions reduce porting cycles by up to 80%, generate cost savings, and accelerate time-to-market of Java mobile applications while ensuring their easy updates to new devices in European, North-American and Asian markets. Its Testing Services allow corporations to ensure quality of their mobile applications and products with professional QA Testing to Mobile, NFC or SIM card applications.

Mobile Distillery’s customers include developers, publishers and system integrators across the mobile application ecosystem, web specialists, mobile game publishers, mobile marketing agencies and IT service companies.

Mobile Distillery has offices in Paris, Marseille and Singapore.

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