Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Openwave transferred assets of its client business to Purple Labs on June 27, 2008 in exchange for $30 million in cash, an additional $2 million if certain conditions are met, and warrants to purchase 2% of Purple Labs common stock.

Additionally, Openwave will provide transition services to Purple Labs for up to six months, and will bear the first $2 million of such expenses.

Based in Chambéry, France, Purple Labs is funded by three European venture capital firms: Sofinnova Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Partners Group.

Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations. This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development.  Plans for the Foundation have already received wide support from other industry leaders.

Vivendi Games Mobile, a division of Vivendi Games, today announced the release of Cake Mania 2: Bake Off! for mobile, an exciting spin-off of the wildly successful PC Franchise, Cake Mania, which has claimed more than 70 million downloads to date. Cake Mania 2: Bake Off! allows players to show off their baking skills in the zany and exciting new baking experience for mobile phones.

Cake Mania 2: Bake Off! for mobile is based on the best-selling casual PC game, Cake Mania 2, where the game's iconic baker, Jill, is back to baking and decorating cakes in a new mobile adventure. In the hit sequel, players will explore six far-flung bakery locations and serve up delicious original creations to quirky customers, ranging from federal agents to mysterious aliens.

Players will choose which path Jill pursues, with each decision leading to new baking challenges and dilemmas. The game includes 72 levels of baking and frosting madness, multiple endings and a branching, non-linear thrilling storyline.

Mobile Digital Media (MDM), provider of mobile solutions, today announced it plans to bring many of its most popular software titles from the traditional mobile device and smartphone markets over to Apple's hugely popular iPhone.

Moreover, MDM will forego merely porting existing product code, but rather will rewrite applications from the ground up especially for the iPhone in order to take advantage of its advanced technologies and unique capabilities to ensure
the ultimate user experience.

Mobile Digital Media's first product for the iPhone will be the extremely popular Advanced Brain Trainer Deluxe, followed by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with Franklin Thesaurus. MDM hasalso slated the hugely popular Atkins Carb Counter for release on iPhone during 2008, with other major titles to follow thereafter. Pricing information will be forthcoming, as will complete release date and title availability information. 

Digia has created a first fully finger touch controllable web browser finger touch controllable web browser for UIQ based mobile phones. Designed for UIQ 3 and Symbian OS the Digia Web provides user oriented mobile browsing experience. Browser is based on the open-source webkit browser engine ported to UIQ by Digia, and a whole new browser UI that gives powerful and intuitive access to true web content.

Mobile browsing is gaining huge popularity due to flat rate 3G data access and possibility to use WLAN connections. Digia @Web allows mobile phone users with browser designed to give the optimal mobile browsing experience. Direct access to true web content is achieved through the first full finger touch browser interface designed by Digia.

Digia @Web 1.0 browser engine is based on the open-source S60 webkit engine version ported to UIQ platform by Digia. Other users of the webkit browser engine include Apple Safari browser, iPhone, Google Android and Nokia S60 browser.

Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access.

Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile - and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include:

SEGA Mobile, a division of SEGA Corporation, today announced that its classic game Sonic the Hedgehog has surpassed more than 8 million downloads since launching on mobile phones in North America and Europe.

The venerable video icon has been a stellar performer since launching in early 2006. In North America, the game has enjoyed its biggest success and consistent Top Seller status on Verizon Wireless' V CAST service.

SEGA's legendary mascot, and one of the most popular video game characters of all time, blazed onto mobile phones with a re-creation of the best-selling first title for the SEGA Genesis console system. Packing in all the ultra-fast action and gameplay of the original, Sonic the Hedgehog was first launched exclusively with Verizon Wireless in the U.S. Additional major carriers in North America and Europe followed, where the game remains a consistent top seller.

The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.

Opera Software today released the Opera Widgets SDK beta, enabling Web developers to deploy Web applications on any device. The Opera Widgets SDK is based on open, W3C-set standards to employ common web technologies such as HTML, CSS and media queries, JavaScript and Ajax, in creating advanced Web applications.

The SDK features an emulator, libraries, documentation and Opera Dragonfly for debugging. The Opera Widgets SDK beta is available at:http://www.opera.com/widgets/sdk.

Today the Opera Widgets repository contains over 1,200 widgets for desktop, mobile phones and devices such as ARCHOS portable media players.

These widgets include games, news feeds, information widgets for travel and weather, as well as Web developer tools for color pickers, pixel rulers and more. The Opera Widgets SDK makes it even easier to create widgets of various complexity, using known and practiced Web standards, that can run across devices.

Opera Software announced today the availability of Opera Mini 4.1 from beta testing, the newest version of the award-winning browser that works on nearly every mobile phone. Opera Mini 4.1 revolutionizes the way people get the Web on their Mobile phone. People can now enjoy instant access to websites from any location and any device. Opera Mini is freely available from http://www.operamini.com.

Opera Mini 4.1 introduces the following new features:

• Opera Mini 4.1 is up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0
• The new Opera Mini will automatically suggest URL completions, making address input easy and intuitive
• Web pages can be saved for later off-line viewing
• Opera Mini 4.1 gives you quick access to the word or phrase you want in Web pages
• Images, ringtones and other content can be downloaded without leaving Opera Mini.

View the guided tour of Opera Mini 4.1 http://www.operamini.com/tour.

Sprint and Google are committed to providing users with the most dynamic mobile experience possible. Both companies have actively advocated the importance of an open mobile ecosystem and understand that users should have more choice when it comes to selecting and accessing content on a mobile phone.

Nokia and Ikivo, a supplier of rich media application enabling solutions based on open standards, today announced the joint creation of a complete tool chain that simplifies and allows efficient collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile devices.

The new tool set integrates Nokia's Platform SDKs for Java, Adobe Illustrator, Ikivo Animator and Sun's NetBeans to enable user interface designers to add their GUI designs directly to an application project and avoid the time-consuming process of "translating" those designs into Java code.

Utilizing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to capture visual designs for optimized integration into software development projects, the new solution dramatically improves the productivity of mobile Java development, and reinforces the attractiveness of Java as an environment for creating compelling mobile applications with rich graphics and interactivity.

Hook Mobile today announced the availability of its MobileHook API for Web 2.0 application developers to push multimedia, including photos, video, audio, and slideshows, from social networking applications to mobile phones.

This API provides open access into Hook Mobile's MAX 2.0 platform that provides Multimedia Messaging (MMS) delivery into wireless carrier networks, with the potential to reach nearly 200 million phones in the US and Canada.

Hook Mobile's REST-based API removes the complex layers of application integration, media transcoding, wireless carrier approval and message delivery that previously made it nearly impossible for application developers to use MMS. Hook provides access to the MAX 2.0 platform for seamless mobile delivery across an endless variety of device types, media formats, diverse carrier network connections and user handset capabilities.

Opera Software today announced that its Opera Mini browser for mobile phones is available for the Android platform. The technical preview release is available at labs.opera.com, inviting the Android development community to test the fresh build and share feedback with Opera for the forthcoming beta.

Android is Google's open source platform that is open for developers to create new and innovative applications for cell phones. 

Opera Mini, boasting more than 40 million users worldwide across mobile platforms, enables Web browsing from low-to-high resource handsets by compressing data at a remote server before sending content to the phone applet for rendering.

With a simple, user-friendly interface, Opera Mini powers innovative features for real, desktop-like Web browsing from a mobile phone, including Small Screen Rendering, Zoom, synced bookmarks and integrated Google search. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, open handset developers can include a tried and tested, full Internet experience.

Bluefire recently announced that its Bluefire Mobile Defender, the first mobile security solution designed for mass-market consumer and enterprise deployments, will be available through OEM partners.

It equips handset manufacturers, wireless operators and mobile application providers with a robust mobile security platform that addresses the burgeoning use of mobile online services among consumers and business users.

According to IDC, 80% of wireless devices are purchased by consumers rather than corporations or government agencies and mobile functionality has provided more opportunity for malware, malicious attacks and data theft.

Mobile Defender combines a network-grade stateful firewall with malware blocking, spam blocking and other features that provide multi-layered protection without requiring user authentication, encryption or server-based updates that are impractical for mass market deployments.