TOKYO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
HI CORPORATION (hereinafter "HI") (JASDAQ:3846), a leading company for mobile 3D graphics announced today that HI will collaborate with Lotaris SA (hereinafter "Lotaris") to accelerate the development of their products that are aimed at further activating global smartphone applications and the content market.
Through this collaboration, HI will be able to deliver to content providers Lotaris' behavior-based mobile applications management platform "LME (Lotaris Licensed Mobile Environment Platform)" that uses advanced DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology, which allows the distribution of both premium (pay) and freemium content secured by DRM.
In addition, an integrated solution of HI's 3D rendering engine "MascotCapsule®" and LME platform will be available for developers.
Lotaris LME Platform has been widely adopted by major global ISVs for their security-sensitive AndroidTM applications. Supporting operating systems such as Android and BlackBerry®, LME Platform enables various payment methods such as credit cards, PayPal, and scratch cards (license key entry). Its tracking feature allows content providers to use the usage information for their content planning and development.
Lotaris CEO Robert Tibbs said, "I am very pleased that we are working with HI that has a de facto standard 3D rendering engine and has partners around the world. We believe that the LME Platform is the solution to distributing content with safe billing which is essential for the rapidly growing smartphone market. Cooperating with HI, we are committed to expanding LME in the game and content industry as well as developing products that will be well accepted by the market."
HI is committed to continued efforts to provide an environment that allows content to be distributed safely and securely as well as contributing to the development of the content business.
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BlackBerry is a registered trademark of Research In Motion Limited in the United States and other countries. |
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MascotCapsule is a registered trademark of HI CORPORATION in Japan. |
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About Lotaris
Founded in 2006, Lotaris SA is pioneering behavior-based mobile applications management from one ubiquitous global platform, its Lotaris Persuasive Engine (LPE). Developed in Switzerland over the past 3 years and launched in early 2011 on PCI Level 1 compliant infrastructure. The Lotaris technology is currently licensed by major global ISVs and it is easily and seamlessly embedded within the app to provide delivery, activation, user activity analysis, interactive messaging, subscription, billing, and payment, all based on real-time, fine-grained user behavior from within the application. For further information, please see Lotaris web-site, http://www.lotaris.com/.
About HI CORPORATION
Founded in 1989, HI CORPORATION is a leading 3D graphics company with its headquarters in Tokyo and subsidiaries in the U.S., South Korea, and Singapore.
Our flagship product, a real-time 3D rendering engine "MascotCapsule", has been shipped with more than 600 million units as of March 2010. A variety of console-quality 3D content and 3D user interfaces using MascotCapsule are distributed worldwide. HI will continue to actively provide MascotCapsule for home and car electronic devices other than mobile phones.
For more information, visit our website at http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english.
CONTACT:
HI CORPORATION
Toyomi Masuda, +81-3-3710-9376
Public Relations: press@hicorp.co.jp
Technology: support@hicorp.co.jp