04 Oct 2010

JIL Ownership Change

On October 1st, the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) and JIL completed the transaction announced on July 27 to join forces in order to deliver WAC enabled application stores. For more information click here. The terms and conditions have been updated to reflect the change in organization name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

15 May 2010

JIL Compliance Program official launch

As previewed during the GSMA 2010 Congress in Barcelona, the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) today announces the launch of its official compliance program.

As part of JIL's goal of enabling developers to easily write applications and services for a large range of handsets we need to address the fragmentation of the mobile device space. Our Compliance Program aims to provide the developers with the assurance that the JIL specifications will work consistently across JIL-enabled handsets and helping the handset manufacturers check their runtimes and devices to ensure the best experience for their users.

During the beta version of our Compliance Program we have worked with different handset manufacturers to consolidate a set of tests for the JIL runtime platforms. We would like to thank all of them for their collaboration.

Now manufacturers that want to develop a JIL-compliant runtime in their device can register in http://compliance.jil.org and have access to the test assets that will help them ensure their implementation is consistent with others.

We hope this initiative will help us address the needs of developers and users and provide a consistent experience across all our JIL range of handsets. 
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15 February 2010

HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE Support the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) Widget Initiative

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, February 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Leading Handset Manufacturers Announce Support for the JIL Widget Specification, Allowing Support for Richer Applications

The Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) today announces that handset manufacturers, HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE will support the new JIL 1.2 specification. Future handsets from all of these manufacturers will be capable of running JIL apps.

The support of HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE will offer developers a broader range of devices that support JIL widgets. Customers will benefit from a wide range of useful and innovative mobile applications as well as an enhanced experience with seamlessly integrated apps that can be launched from the home screen of the device.

"The decision from HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE to include the JIL widget runtime in their future devices demonstrates the strength of JIL's efforts to establish an open mobile development environment," says JIL CEO, Peters Suh. "The decision by HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE to deliver JIL compliant handsets will ensure that customers are in line for an even better experience on their devices."

JIL has developed a platform for mobile widgets centred on mobile operators' unique capabilities which enable the developer community to create applications for a growing number of handsets as well as give customers access to a range of richer mobile applications and internet services.

JIL was established in 2008 and has drawn support from other handset manufacturers such as LG, RIM, Samsung and Sharp since its inception. With HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE committing to deliver a range of JIL compliant handsets, developers are able to create innovative JIL widget compliant applications that will reach even more customers across the JIL member companies of China Mobile, Softbank, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. The combination of these leading companies has a customer base of more than 1 billion people across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Read more: PR Newswire _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

15 February 2010

Joint Innovation Lab Opens Widget API Specifications and Contributes Them to W3C

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, February 15 /PRNewswire/ --

JIL Continues to Drive Innovation in the Mobile Apps Space by Committing to Offer API Specifications Royalty-Free to Wireless Service Providers Around the Globe The Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) announced today that it will open its widget API specification to other wireless service providers and contribute these API specifications to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). JIL members also announced that they will join the newly formed Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) to ensure that mobile developers can reach as many mobile customers as simply and as cost effectively as possible.

The move demonstrates JIL's commitment to making its applications more open to developers and wireless service providers.

JIL will make the widget API specifications available to any wireless company looking to offer a development platform for mobile Web based applications. JIL expects this will encourage broader adoption of the JIL specification by operators and OEMs and reduce industry fragmentation. JIL believes the availability of an open specification with broad global reach will encourage more developers to create innovative mobile applications, benefiting consumers through improved quality and choice.

JIL currently supports W3C widget specifications, such as the W3C packaging and configuration API. JIL's contribution of the widget API specifications reinforces JIL's commitment to support emerging World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. Read more ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12 February 2010

JIL Compliance for vendors

Today, JIL unveiled a new web portal specially designed for vendors to self-certify their widget runtimes for compliance. The website, compliance.jil.org  provides vendors with JIL Specifications, compliance documentation, test assets, news, and an area allowing vendors to efficiently manage their runtime(s). Membership is free. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

20 October 2009

Leading handset manufacturers to support JIL

LG, RIM, Samsung and Sharp agree to support the JIL widget specification. The Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) announces that leading handset manufacturers LG Electronics (LG), Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung) and Sharp Corporation (Sharp) will support the JIL widget specification in future mobile handsets from Q1 2010.

The launch of a wide range of JIL widget compliant handsets will enable developers to create applications that can be rolled out to customers across the JIL member companies of China Mobile, SOFTBANK, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, who have a combined user base of more than 1 billion across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Customers will benefit from having a wide range of useful and innovative mobile applications to choose from. Read more: PR Newswire