Intel partners with Infraware on MID software
2009/05/19 16:11
South Korean mobile software firm Infraware has signed a new partnership to develop middleware for Intel’s Mobile Internet Device (MID) initiative. The deal also includes Intel Capital investing $5 million dollars in Infraware and SK Telecom developing a mobile application store for MIDs. They expect the first details and public display of the product to be at CES 2010.
Infraware also signed a strategic alliance agreement with Qualcomm in February to optimize their browsers for the Brew Mobile Platform. Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs was in Seoul in April where he also announced plans to use Qualcomm Ventures to invest in wireless and/or healthcare companies in Korea.
Korea Times: Phone and Beyond:
``What we are seeing is a convergence between communications, computing, consumer electronics, productivity, Web services and entertainment. All these things are coming together and we are positioning ourselves well to compete in those spaces with new capabilities on multimedia, processors and wireless technologies aimed at these different areas,'' Jacobs said in an interview with The Korea Times at his San Diego office.
``We are going to see both 3G and 4G as we go forward and more devices connected to the network, so we are working together with our partners on new computing devices and new entertainment devices.
