March 7 2007 – Game Developer Conference 2007, San Francisco
Acrodea is pleased to announce the availability of its OpenKODE 1.0 Core implementation to help developers and OEMs to develop applications on top of OpenKODE. The software library package for desktop Windows® systems is available for download at the Khronos Group website.
As a member of the Khronos Group, Acrodea has been an active participant in defining the OpenKODE standard and has started to license its implementation to a number of key partners.
"OpenKODE is the key to growing the mobile content market and defragmenting the content market enabling high-performance implementations of multimedia to handsets without any additional hardware modifications," says Yoshio Kuniyoshi, CTO and Vice President of Acrodea Inc. "We are glad to see leading developers and partners targeting OpenKODE and our implementation in a wide range of devices; enabling advanced graphics applications to run everywhere to create significant opportunities for content developers."
Founded in 2004 and based in Japan, Acrodea is a software company at the forefront of developing and licensing graphics technology solutions for handheld consumer devices. Acrodea's customers are key players in the mobile industry world wide.
Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software company focused on middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly concentrated on interface technologies connecting the user and terminal, and currently provides user interface technologies and messaging enhancement technologies to the market. Acrodea’s efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which the company has received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on a global scale, including China, Europe, and North America.
The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after its establishment in July 2004. The company has offices in Seoul, Korea; and Espoo, Finland.
For more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.
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