Ronneby, Sweden, 14 May 2008 - UIQ Technology today announced that Dr. Colin Tucker has been appointed to the role of Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of UIQ Technology. To promote the success of UIQ Technology, Dr. Tucker will, in addition to his role as chairman, serve as a principal advisor and, together with the other Board members, continuously assess the company’s financial standing and constructively challenge and contribute to its strategic development.

“I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Colin Tucker as chairman of the UIQ Technology board, said Johan Sandberg, CEO at UIQ Technology. Dr. Tucker comes with over 30 years of telecommunications leadership experience and it is great for us to get such an experienced chairman”

Dr Colin Tucker has amongst a number of other positions served as Chief Technology Officer and Group Director International of Orange Plc, Executive Director to the Board of Orange Plc, Managing Director 3 UK and Deputy Chairman of Hutchison 3G and was listed by the Financial Times as one of the eight key people to know in the Telecommunications sector.

“I have always had a passion for how people use technology, said Dr Colin Tucker. This is an excellent opportunity for me to be part of the strategic development and help UIQ becoming the innovation platform enabling the best mobile user experience”

Other directors of the UIQ Technology Board are Rob Shaddock and Alain Mutricy from Motorola and Ulf Persson and Mats Lindoff from Sony Ericsson.

Source : http://uiq.com/2888_3029.html

 DreamSpring Releases Touch Friendly Version of DreamConnect 3

Gold Coast, Australia, 13 May 2008 - DreamSpring announced the availability of DreamConnect 3 v3.60, a touch friendly version and upgrade of the award-winning contact manager for Symbian UIQ 3 smartphone users.

DreamSpring today released a vast improvement of DreamConnect 3, featuring finger friendly navigation as introduced in Sony Ericsson’s Developer World at http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/newsandevents/latestnews/newsfeb08/p_dreamspring_dreamconnect_smalleruiq3screens.jsp, and feature and performance enhancements which make the already intuitive DreamConnect 3 even more user-friendly.

New to DreamConnect 3 v3.60 is gesture support, providing quicker and more convenient access to contact details. Users can simply swipe their finger or thumb either to the left or right to scroll through contact details or up and down to scroll through the contact list. On the upcoming Sony Ericsson G700 and G900, this even takes advantage of their accelerated scrolling feature.

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AfterCall application performs various actions after call ends. You can quickly send SMS, MMS or E-mail messages right after your call. Without unnecessary movements you can make a new note, calendar meeting or task.

If you get a call from a new number, you can add this number to your contact list or update existing contact info right after the conversation, without entering the call list once again.

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After weeks of beta testing, the final version of Opera Mini 4.1 is now available for download. According to the Official Opera Mini Blog, since the beta there are more than 150 changes to fix various issues and to ensure that it will run as well as possible on your device. And here is the release statement from the team :

There are no big differences from the beta, but there are a lot of things that have happened behind the surface:
- We have fixed a lot of bugs
- Minor changes to saving pages
- Several adjustments to auto-complete address input and upload/download
- BlackBerry devices with old firmware now get Opera Mini 4.1 without JSR-75.

Get Opera Mini 4.1 final direct to your cellphone by visiting http://www.operamini.com using the phone’s browser or http://mini.opera.com

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Papyrus, one of the calendar alternatives for Symbian S60 smartphones (other alternatives are Handy Calendar and AquaCalendar) just reached version 1.4 which adds some new functions and bugfixes. The highlights are :

New and improved New/Edit Item form - Introducing the improved “New/Edit Item Dialogs”, tabbed with elegance for a more professional use! Easily view/edit your notes within the new “Notes” tab, as if they were Nokia’s notes!

New and improved Grid view - Discover the new grid view after receiving a well deserved face lift, now showing even more details with great elegance! Additionally, header colors are now not only affected by “Special Event” categories but also chosen according to weekdays/weekend!

Lots of great additional improvements and optimizations - This new version brings a myriad of changes and updates, some of which include: Optimized setting handling, Improved note editing, new shortcut navigation, Google calendar categories syncing and more!
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