OSLO, NORWAY 24 May, 2006 – Beep Science, a leading provider of DRM technology based on the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard, and Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced pre-integration of Beep Science’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) with Trolltech’s Qtopia application platform. The solution enables device manufacturers to quickly deploy an open, industry standard OMA DRM on the leading Linux-based application platform.
Beep Science’s DRM fully supports all copyright protection requirements in Linux enabled mobile devices, as well as interoperability requirements between devices and the operators’ OMA DRM enabled services.
Qtopia is unrivalled as the application platform for efficiently building virtually any type of Linux-based device. Qtopia’s comprehensive product family offers unmatched flexibility and control for customizing the user experience.
The pre-integration of the two technologies will shorten device manufacturers’ time to market and enable them to confidently deploy a pre-tested DRM solution.
Beep Science joins Trolltech’s large and growing community of commercial and open source developers complemented by world-class partnerships.
“We are excited to cooperate with Trolltech providing new opportunities for Qtopia customers in deployment of rights protection in advanced multimedia Linux-based consumer devices. The pre-integrated DRM solution will enable any content copyright protection needs in consumer devices as well as securing interoperability requirements between devices and the Operators’ OMA DRM enabled services. With the fast take-up of Linux in multimedia devices, the rights protection tools become increasingly important to meet market requirements”, says Jan Rune Hetle, CEO at Beep Science AS.
“With the increasing functionality of mobile phones, particularly feature phones, Qtopia and Trolltech’s partners aim to help manufacturers get their product to market efficiently with pre-integrated technology. Our partner relationship with Beep Science demonstrates the strong and vibrant community of Linux partners and developers that exists today,” said Benoit Schillings, CTO, Trolltech.
The DRM solution provided by Beep Science is fully compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) industry standard versions 1 and 2 as well as compliant with the DRM requirements from leading mobile operators. The Beep Science DRM Agent supports any content type, and is supported on most operating systems and hardware platforms, paving the way for a healthy digital content ecosystem across devices and services. The Beep Science DRM Agent can be used for all types of multimedia devices for downloading contents from online services, and the secured distribution and playback of the content, creating a viable business model for the rich-media download services.
Trolltech® is the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use. Trolltech's magic inspires software innovation and drives improved usability. The magic is the combination of efficient software development with an innovative, high-quality user experience. Trolltech's software increases the appeal of our customer's desktop applications and devices while reducing their risks and software development costs. Trolltech's technologies accelerate the evolution of software by unleashing the creative power of the developer.
The company's family of products include Qt®, which sets the standard for high-performance, cross-platform software development; and Qtopia®, the unrivalled application platform for the efficient creation of Linux devices.
Trolltech software is the foundation for thousands of leading products worldwide, many from Global 2000 companies. Trolltech is a second-generation open source company, with a dual licensing business model that supports open source values and methodology in a profitable, sustainable business. For more information about Trolltech, please visit http://www.trolltech.com.
Beep Science AS is a leading provider of Mobile Digital Rights Management software solutions. Founded in 2000, the company represents one of the largest specialist resource centers into mobile DRM technology. Beep Science has its head offices in Oslo, Norway, and has Research & Development site in Szeged, Hungary. Beep Science operates in Europe, Asia and America.
Beep Science is an independent software vendor providing client and server side DRM software products based on open industry standard from Open Mobile Alliance. The company’s DRM vision is to support any content format, media player, operating system, device, network and content delivery platform with state of the art open standard DRM technology for both the client and server side. Beep Science has partnerships with leading technology providers and infrastructure vendors, and co-operates with leading software integrators and solutions providers in customer projects for end-to-end solutions. Beep Science has world-class brands in the Media and Telecom Industry as customers. For further information, please visit: www.beepscience.com.
Sissel Henriette Larsen, Marketing Director
Phone: +47 932 88 888
Mail: sissel@beepscience.com
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