LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --     Ideaworks3D, a leading developer of native mobile technology and 
applications, today announced that its Airplay native execution environment 
has been certified as a conformant implementation of the OpenKODE(TM) 1.0 API 
standard from the Khronos(TM) Group.

OpenKODE is a royalty-free, open standard that combines a set of native
APIs to increase source portability for rich media and graphics applications.
OpenKODE reduces mobile platform fragmentation by providing the OpenKODE Core
cross-platform API for accessing operating system resources, and a media
architecture for portable access to advanced mixed graphics acceleration.

The Airplay OpenKODE implementation has been certified as conformant on
Symbian OS (Series60 and UIQ3), BREW (2.x, 3.x), Windows Mobile (5, 6) and
mobile Linux. In addition, the Airplay desktop simulator environments,
running Windows x86 code or simulating ARM code using ARM's Real-Time System
Model debugger are also conformant. This is by far the widest range of
platforms available from one implementation of OpenKODE today. Furthermore,
the Airplay implementation of OpenKODE is unique in offering developers a
single native application binary that can be deployed unmodified to all
supported platforms.

Ideaworks3D believes that, as an open industry standard which is
independent of platform vendors' proprietary APIs, OpenKODE will encourage
the growth in development of native mobile games and multimedia applications.

"Ideaworks3D's real-world experience with Airplay has been invaluable in
guiding the detailed design of the OpenKODE Core specification. Now that
Ideaworks3D has certified that Airplay is OpenKODE-conformant across so many
platforms, we expect developers to be strongly attracted by the proposition
of using an industry-standard API to deploy rich-media applications to an
enormous number of handsets, all from a single application binary," said Neil
Trevett, president of the Khronos Group and chairman of the OpenKODE working
group.

Designed to speed deployment across multiple software environments and
hardware architectures, Airplay is a cross-platform portability technology
and run-time execution environment that delivers a single application binary 
across all ARM-based mobile devices. The resulting application can be 
deployed over-the-air to multiple operating systems and run-time environments 
without further porting or any requirement for additional graphics rendering 
engines on the mobile device.

Markus Tremmel, worldwide wireless ecosystem manager, Texas Instruments,
Says, "TI strives to see developers take full advantage of the multimedia
power of our OMAP(TM) platform. Airplay allows multimedia developers to
harness that power, both on platforms with hardware graphics acceleration
like the OMAP2430 processor, and mid range platforms such as OMAP-Vox(TM).
Airplay's OpenKODE conformance means developers can be confident of
consistent behaviour when targeting all the current open native operating
systems with a single application binary, using an industry-standard API, in
a cost-effective manner."

By supporting the OpenKODE 1.0 API, Airplay gains the advantages of an
industry-standard API, allowing OpenKODE content developed on Airplay to be
easily ported to other OpenKODE implementations, and allowing applications
developed on other OpenKODE implementations to be ported to Airplay. All the
traditional advantages of Airplay are available to OpenKODE; zero additional
porting effort between all supported platforms and handsets, and true native
performance unencumbered by any kind of Virtual Machine.

With unparalleled experience in mobile operating system abstraction,
Ideaworks3D was chosen as a leading member of the OpenKODE working group, and
the Airplay System API provided the first draft of the OpenKODE Core API.
Ideaworks3D will continue to be involved in the development of OpenKODE as
extensions and new versions of the standard are available.

The Airplay 3.5 SDK, which includes OpenKODE 1.0 support, is available
immediately for evaluation from Ideaworks3D.

About OpenKODE

More information is available at http://www.khronos.org/openkode/.

About Ideaworks3D

Ideaworks3D is a privately held technology and game development company
headquartered in London. Founded in 1998 with a strong Oxford and Cambridge
computer science and electronic engineering pedigree, the company has an
unparalleled track record of creative innovation and technical leadership in
the field of high performance mobile gaming. Ideaworks3D's Airplay(TM)
platform is the result of over 7 years of research and development into
high-performance native multimedia applications on mobile devices.
Ideaworks3D's Studio is the recipient of multiple industry accolades
including "Best Game" and "Operators' Choice" awards at IMGA 2008, and two
consecutive BAFTA Games Awards in 2005 and 2004 for best handheld and mobile
games. More information can be found at: http://www.ideaworks3d.com.

Khronos and OpenKODE are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc.

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