Ronneby, Sweden, March 13, 2008 - UIQ Technology today announced the winners of the UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding and showcasing the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party applications created with the UIQ open software development platform. The UIQ Open is an application competition where software developers and software companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Community website

One of my articles that has gained lots of attention was written about hacking Symbian Platform Security. Although it turned out that reproducing the workaround found by Symbiaali is laborous, requires strong technical knowledge and its wide-spread use is very unlikely, it clearly showed me that people were interested in this topic.

I'm a big fan of Simon Judge's blog, Mobile Phone Development, and I read his article about Q3/2007 Smartphone Market Share with great interest. I agree with his findings, however, I would add my own thoughts to it, too.

UIQ Technology is hosting a third Developer Fast Track event in Budapest on November 29, 30th. Fast-Track events provide mobile application developers with technical and commercial information; you will learn about compelling business cases to be made targeting UIQ 3 and get a deeper technical knowledge about concepts behind the UIQ architecture.

UIQ Technology announced today the start of the second annual UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding and showcasing the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party applications on the UIQ software development platform. The UIQ Open is an application competition where mobile software development companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Program website.

Sony Ericsson and Motorola, Inc. announced a definitive agreement under which Motorola will acquire a 50% interest in UI Holdings BV, the parent company of UIQ Technology AB, which is currently wholly owned by Sony Ericsson. Under the agreement, Motorola and Sony Ericsson will work together and jointly invest in the development of the UIQ open user interface platform.

If the official Smartphone show only opens from 9:00 to 17:30, you should however not expect to stop so early and be able to visit London finish your work on time during the evening. Here is a list of parties hosted by Symbian and licensees to keep you awake during a few more hours.

The night before the Symbian Smartphone Show, Sony Ericsson Developer World is jointly hosting a pub evening with UIQ Technology and Motorola exclusively for developers and partners. Take this chance to enjoy a beer or two with other prominent developers, chat with experts from all three companies about all things UIQ and play with UIQ 3-based phones from both Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Don't forget to bring your UIQ 3 applications so you can show them off.

UIQ Technology announced today Esmertec, Penrillian and Scalado as new partners in the UIQ Alliance program, adding to the many service, application and content providers worldwide who enhance the value of the UIQ product offering. Those partnerships will allow UIQ to offer new and improved Java, imaging and porting experience to its customers.