TOKYO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
HI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata; hereinafter "HI")(JASDAQ:3846) announced today that HI has signed a MOU with Obigo Inc. (Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea; CEO: David Doeyun Hwang; hereinafter "Obigo") on the collaboration to develop and sell Obigo's browser-related products and their consulting for the Japanese market.
HTML5 is the latest HTML standard that is a predominant markup language for web pages, and it is now drawing a lot of attention from various industries including the Web industry because it has potential to become one of the application development platforms for smartphones, digital home electronics, etc.
Through this MOU, HI and Obigo are committed to offering the most promising innovative HTML5 web technology for services provided through mobile phones, home electronics and on-board electronics in Japan.
Obigo's CEO David Doeyun Hwang said, "We are very pleased to collaborate with HI who ensures a wide range of partnerships in the embedded industry as well as abundant experience and knowledge of application development for the embedded environment. We want to provide services for Smart TV (*1) and WAC solution (*2) that caught the attention of many visitors at the 2011 CES and MWC as they are increasingly popular in Japan. In addition, we would like to work actively with HI to provide a browser service that requires a high-level of knowledge for development for the Japanese market."
Also Kazuo Kawabata, CEO of HI said, "We are encouraged that HI was able to become a partner of Obigo who is familiar with browser technology and has quickly started working on a HTML5 browser. This MOU will strengthen our web services and help us make proposals on the next generation GUI that combines our 3D technology and WebGL (*3) for the market."
[Information about Event Exhibition]
HI is planning to showcase the products developed through this collaboration at ESEC. It will take place 11-13 May 2011 at the Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo. You will find examples of HTML5 implementation and application demos using HTML5. Please visit the website to find our booth (West 1-72): http://www.esec.jp/en/Home/.
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*1 Smart TV |
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A service that provides various contents through the integration of the internet into television sets through cloud computing. |
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*2 WAC Solution |
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A solution that supports the specification of WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) that aims to maintain the application environment for an open mobile device. |
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*3 WebGL |
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Standard specifications to generate 3D graphics with any compatible web browser. It is managed by Khronos Group. |
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[About OBIGO]
OBIGO INC (www.obigo.com), running its offices in Korea, Taiwan, China, US and EU, is a leading Web technology company with over 700 million devices commercialized in the market today. Obigo's latest technologies and solutions include HTML5 Browser, Widget Runtime (W3C, WAC), Web Application Development Tools and Web-based services. Today, its customers include major handset, automobile and CE manufacturers.
[About HI]
HI CORPORATION (http://www.hicorp.co.jp/english/) is a leading research and development company in middleware development for embedded devices. Its flagship product, a 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.
CONTACT:
HI CORPORATION
Toyomi Masuda, +81-3-3710-9376
Public Relations: press@hicorp.co.jp
Technology: support@hicorp.co.jp