Nokia has named the initial group of exceptional mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program, designed to provide select small- and mid-sized developers with key business and market support and facilitate access for cutting-edge applications and services to the largest mobile device market in the world today.

The developers recognized for the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series include:

• Application: Plusmo | Developer: Plusmo, Inc., Santa Clara, CA — Plusmo (pictured)  is a leading provider of standards-based mobile widgets that deliver rich personalized experiences for consumers on a broad range of mobile devices.
• Application: Whrrl | Developer: Pelago, Inc., Seattle, WA — Whrrl is a location-based social discovery tool that gives users access to more than 6.5 million points of interest in the U.S. using Nokia’s Assisted-Global Positioning System (A GPS) service.
• Application: Qik | Developer: Qik, Inc., Foster City, CA — Qik is a multimedia communications service that enables users to stream video, audio and IM live over the Internet, from S60 3rd Edition devices to any PC, laptop or mobile device that has Internet connectivity.
• Application: WebMessenger Mobile | Developer: WebMessenger, Inc., Los Angeles, CA — WebMessenger provides a native Symbian client application for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) that extends OCS functionality to Nokia S60 devices.
• Application: Backup-Pal(R) | Developer: Advanced Wireless Solutions, Burbank, CA — Advanced Wireless Solutions’ Backup-Pal(R). provides a solution to the problem of data loss resulting from lost, stolen, and damaged cell phones, as well as data transfer problems associated with cell phone upgrades and switching carriers.
• Application: Hava Mobile Player | Developer: Monsoon Multimedia, San Mateo, CA — Hava Mobile Player is a TV “place shifting” application that leverages Monsoon Multimedia’s Hava device to lets mobile users watch live home TV or their own recorded content on their mobile device, wherever they may be.
• Application: JoikuSpot | Developer: Joikusoft Oy Ltd., Espoo, Finland — JoikuSpot is a free mobile application that can be installed directly onto a 3G connection-enabled S60 3rd Edition device to turn a user’s 3G mobile connection into their own secure WLAN hotspot, virtually wherever they are – whether stationery or in a moving train or car.
• Application: UbiSafe | Developer: UbiEst., Treviso, Italy — UbiSafe is a location-based services (LBS) application built on Java technology that enables mobile device users to easily address their own personal security and emergency needs, as well as those of family, friends and individuals with special needs, such as children, the elderly and invalids.

For more information, go to the Forum Nokia Innovation Series.

Source: Nokia Corporation