Mobile technology firm Mobile Distillery is supporting the French Governments drive to offer  free services and information via all mobile phones to French citizens. The Proxima Mobile initiative aims to bring a range of information such as health advice, citizen and consumer information, and even the details of the CO2 footprint of consumer products, to all people in France. Mobile Distillery is supporting the project by offering a free version of its Celsius automatic porting technology, tailored to Proxima Mobile, to ensure that all information can be relayed to the widest possible range of handsets.
Mobile Distillery is offering all Proxima Mobile projects free access to a Celsius licence, including NFC and Bluetooth modules, Alembic for Celsius, BlackBerry and Android. Included are also two days training to automatically optimise each application for each phone using Parametric Development, as well as the automatic porting to as many phones as possible iPhone and Windows Mobile porting are optional. Parametric Development is a technique developed by Mobile Distillery which allows a single source code to automatically generate optimised code for each handset, without resorting to using the least common denominator. Instead, executable code can be created which can use the maximum of each handsets possibilities.
This initiative, launched by the French Minister of State Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, is a great way to bring mobile services and technology closer to the public, says Mobile Distillery CEO, Vincent Berge.This is the first time weve come across such a project and (we) are proud that France is leading the way. If its a success it would be great to see it rolled out across other European countries, including Britain.
Any company interested in the Mobile Distillery offer for Proxima Mobile should email [email protected] to claim their free Celsius software, before filing their Proxima Mobile application. Those projects chosen by Proxima Mobile will be given the free licence and dates for training.