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Acrodea Releases Its OpenKODE 1.0 Core Implementation to the Developer Community

    TOKYO, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Acrodea delivers its free OpenKODE 1.0
Core desktop implementation kick-starting the development of OpenKODE
applications on March 7 at Game Developer Conference 2007, San Francisco.
    Acrodea is pleased to announce the availability of its OpenKODE 1.0
Core implementation to help developers and OEMs to develop applications on
top of OpenKODE. The software library package for desktop Windows(R)
systems is available for download at the Khronos Group website.
    As a member of the Khronos Group, Acrodea has been an active
participant in defining the OpenKODE standard and has started to license
its implementation to a number of key partners.
    "OpenKODE is the key to growing the mobile content market and
defragmenting the content market enabling high-performance implementations
of multimedia to handsets without any additional hardware modifications,"
says Yoshio Kuniyoshi, CTO and Vice President of Acrodea Inc. "We are glad
to see leading developers and partners targeting OpenKODE and our
implementation in a wide range of devices, enabling advanced graphics
applications to run everywhere to create significant opportunities for
content developers."
    Founded in 2004 and based in Japan, Acrodea is a software company at
the forefront of developing and licensing graphics technology solutions for
handheld consumer devices. Acrodea's customers are key players in the
mobile industry world wide.
    About Acrodea
    Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software company
focused on middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is
particularly concentrated on interface technologies connecting the user and
terminal, and currently provides user interface technologies and messaging
enhancement technologies to the market. Acrodea's efforts are a continual
commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which the
company has received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea,
Acrodea is engaged in business on a global scale, including China, Europe,
and North America.
    The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19,
2006, just two years and three months after its establishment in July 2004.
    The company has offices in Seoul, Korea; and Espoo, Finland.
    For more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp .

    About Khronos
    The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the
creation of open standards such as OpenGL(R), OpenKODE(TM), OpenGL(R) ES,
OpenMAX(TM), OpenVG(TM), OpenSL ES(TM), OpenML(TM) and COLLADA(TM) to
enable the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on a wide variety of
platforms and devices. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the
development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various
stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of
their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to
specification drafts and conformance tests. Please go to http://www.khronos.org
for more information.
    Khronos, OpenKODE, OpenVG, OpenMAX and OpenSL ES are trademarks of the
Khronos Group Inc. COLLADA is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment
Inc. used by permission by Khronos. OpenGL and OpenML are registered
trademarks and the OpenGL ES logo is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc.
used by permission by Khronos. All other product names, trademarks, and/or
company names are used solely for identification and belong to their
respective owners.
    Contact:
      PR Desk
      Acrodea, Inc.
      +81-3-5798-4885
      http://www.acrodea.co.jp


SOURCE Acrodea, Inc.




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