We have been through a lot since the very first launch of Tricast Mail in 2006 when it was better known as Pegasus. Ticast Mail was released for a small price on our webite.

It has always been in our roadmap plan and we are pleased to announce that finally, V1 is completely FREE for download

But that’s not all, we are about to launch version 2 of Tricast Mail which is better and bolder than its predecessor and that too will be completely, totally, and Irrevocably FREEEEEEE!! 

V2 is absolutely gorgeous and beats any mobile email application out in the market.  Try it out for yourself in a few weeks time. Stay tuned to www.tricastmedia.com

One of the main reasons for success of traditional internet may be its openness and uniform platform for PCs. Browsers are relatively standardised and the tools to create databases and complex systems, such as Linux and SQL, are widely and freely available as open source software (OSS) through General Public Licenses (GPL). This environment has made it easy to develop for the web and has enabled the community to focus on what they do they do best - create fresh and compelling contents, rather than worry about how to deliver it.

With the mobile internet, however the market has been highly fragmented. As smart phones are getting smarter and newer platforms like Googles’s android and Apples’s iPhones, recently-continue to enter the market. This will widen the gulf between high-end devices and low cost, mass market handsets. In this environment, content developers and application developers need access to the right kind of enabling technology to reach the mass market. They need software that can overcome fragmentation issues as well as scale to support applications as they become successful across multiple markets in the longer run.

A UI platform like TWUIK can allow developers to create beautiful applications across billions of Handsets worldwide that cover Java ME, BlackBerry Java, DOJA, BREW and Open platforms like Windows Mobile and Symbian. Popular desktop application or web application/service providers can easily bring the same experience to the mobile space using technology like TWUIK. Our rich UI framework can assist developers quickly deploy mobile solutions. Examples of some of the demo applications developed using this UI are provided on our web site under the video gallery. Feedback and comments highly appreciated

Last month we were back in San Francisco. Sunny San Francisco with beautiful sea side views always makes an everlasting impression on us Glaswegians .

One thing about San Francisco is that we had to take a crash course in the formula for tipping in CA. Although a friend who lives locally advised us about the tips requirement during our early trips but we did not take a serious note of that. During the last few visits we have learnt that tipping does not mean any thing unless it meets the 15-20% formula. In one of the restaurant during our dinner on the first night we were asked about the service more than a dozen time. We had to make sure that we tip before leaving.

Leaving the tipping issue aside we enjoyed the technology show. The choice of food in down town area is great. San Francisco is definitely a good place to visit for business and leisure.

We arein Barcelona this week for the annual Mobile World Congress… lotsa meetings lined up. If you want to meet us, just drop an email to “info@tricastmedia.com”. Plenty of demos to showcase.

Here is a snippet from an article of a recent interview with Igor Jablokov CEO of YAP (TWUIK Customer)…

“Independent of those activities, we are continually upgrading the client and are happy to be partnered with Tricastmedia (they are based in the UK); they allow our crazy visions for next generation visual user interfaces to be possible on low resource devices. By the time we are finished, a child will be able to open up their parent’s mobile phone, ask “why is the sky blue?” and we will answer them a second later. This dream of bringing all human knowledge to you within a single click makes all these late nights worth it…”

To read the full article click here -> http://www.servicesmobiles.fr/services_mobiles/

We took this video to show TWUIK Transition Effects (”Transition” is one of 3 Visual Effects Library available, the other being “Transformation” and “Motion”) run on a low-end Nokia S40 handset. Tomorrow, we are going to post videos of TWUIK running on Motorola K1 (ARM 7 55MHz), and some other non-smartphone devices. Pictures speak a thousand words.

Check out our podcast with Sun Microsystems where Dr. Brian Lee and Dr. Salmon Ahmad give an in-depth insight on Tricastmedia, introducing TWUIK , Tricast Mail and covering our business model.

URL: http://download.java.net/mobileembedded/podcasts/mobileandembedded026.mp3

We are currently facing some problems with Hotmail and Gmail access for Tricast Mail. All existing Tricast Mail v1 cucstomers, please bear with us while we get this fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Latest update: 20/11/07 - The server has been patched and fixed. Let us know if you face any problem accessing these webmail accounts, email: support@tricastmedia.com.

We are thrilled and honored to have won the “Audience Choice - Infrastructure Category” at “Under the Radar | Mobility” conference. Thanks to the hundreds of attendees who turned up there and voted for TWUIK and not forgetting to all the team at Tricast who put in many hours of hardwork.

Winning this award, is a great recognition for the good folks at Tricastmedia and also a strong vote of confidence from the people in the industry that User Interface plays a big part in your application.

And to top this good news, our friends at Yap also won accolades for their Yap9 client (UI also created with TWUIK) as the audience picked them as the winner.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Prudential Inc (US)’s first offshore technology division - Pramerica Systems Ireland, has become a customer. They had licensed TWUIK for Blackberry and planning to use it to build rich application for RIM devices. I can’t hide my excitement, and I look forward to seeing cool stuff brewed from this partnership.

This is scaled down version of our preview teaser for the coming “Under the Radar” event.


For the complete version, click here -> http://www.tricastmedia.com/undertheradarHere’s a list of companies presenting at the event.

Tricast Mail v1.6.2 is launched, buy it from our online shop. This is the final version of v1. We are most excited about v2, powered by TWUIK, our in-house Graphics and Animation platform for rapid UI development on JavaME/DOJA/BREW devices.

See some v2 screenshots here.

Excuse us for the hiatus, this blog has been looking pretty sparse since September, here’s proof that we have indeed been busily toiling away to bring you more cool UI examples… check out mika’s blog.

Latest… we have been working with the fine folks at Yap, using TWUIK to create their UI. The past months of labour has bore fruits. They just won the most no. of votes at Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch40 event. Read full story here.

Yap was the only one of the five mobile companies to score a 4.0 or above on a five-criteria scale that included “idea,” “execution,” and “presentation.”

Source: Mobile Messaging 2.0

Development of v1.6.2 of Tricast Mail is nearing completion. With already 80 supported devices, we are happy to announce that with this new version, we have also coincided with the release of the 5 most requested devices!

These devices are: Nokia N95, E65, Motorola A1200, Sony Ericsson K810i & LG U400

Although V2 is just round the corner, V1.6.2 has been updated to include the following features/upgrades:

Support of Windows Live - Hotmail (classic)  version.

Improved ‘webmail’ (Gmail, Yahoo) connection  and functionality.

Simplification of Email Account settings, which includes the re-introduction of ‘Partial Download’ functionality

& general bug fixing.

We have been nominated and chosen to present at the “Under The Radar - Mobile” (UTR) conference on 15th Nov ‘07. Matt Marshall of VentureBeat called Under the Radar the “American Idol competition for startups”… to be in the final is already an honor. We’d travelling to Mountain View, CA and would also stay there a couple of days for other business meetings. If you happen to be in the valley and want to meet up, just ping us.

UTR conferences showcase 32 of the most disruptive companies in a sector. We take a hands-on look at the true innovators fueling an explosion of emerging technology and new business opportunities. Each company demo’s their product to a panel of industry experts who are active in the sector, along with an audience of early-adopter technology insiders.

We are glad to announce that TWUIK 1.5 is ready as a BETA. Our teams are busy putting the finishing touches to the system. We expect to be ready to leap into the public beta-testing phase in the coming weeks.

Our no. 1 fan and developer shows how the porting of one of TWUIK applications to run on a Motorola K1. K1 is a ARM 7 55 MHz processor.

TWUIK scales… you can see here one of our old demos running on a K1. More demos to come showing the performance of TWUIK on low-powered handsets.

We are excited about the coming release of TWUIK 1.5. It’s been 3 months since we released TWUIK and we had signed up customers at a rate of almost one every month. Customers are telling us how much they love TWUIK and how our technology makes it so easy to create the kinda UI, not possible with other products.

By end next month, we are going to launch TWUIK 1.5. This is a major release as it’d feature our new rendering engine, a slick layout manager and component APIs to create “widgets” type of mobile applications, connecting to web services and mashups.

TWUIK also has a much-improved code base over previous versions. Improvements are still happening, you’ll notice significant improvements. Prepare to be (pleasantly) surprised!

We like the new version much better, and hope you will too.

After weeks of preparation, the new website is finally ready. We launched it yesterday. There are a couple of new stuff other than just the new look. We have created a video gallery for you to browse all the TWUIK and Tricast Mail demos we have put up on YouTube. And also we are going to let you try out Tricast Mail LIVE, before you buy via an online emulator.

New website…

TWUIK ported on Blackberry… DOJA ported earlier this year… next on the list -> BREW…

Performance can get better… overall, we are happy, it’s proving really easy to port for v1.5 (the upcoming next major release). What’s the secret sauce?? Read this blog.

More motorola devices added last week…… total no. of supported devices 73 as of today. Watch this space for update next week, Blackberry platform completed porting.

More devices added to our growing list of supported devices for TWUIK and Tricast Mail.

Just migrated to the latest WORDPRESS…. new blog theme coming up… new website to be launched soon… and watch this space for announcement of several major deals in the coming weeks… we are psyched.

You probably expected this. Yes, we had started Blackberry porting work. So far so good, it looks like we should be releasing a build pretty soon.

Another heartening news, we are going to announce another 30 devices to our list of supported devices, making it more than 100 JavaME phones capable of running TWUIK. Supported devices mean that we had actually tested and the tests passed our internal QA. As for Tricast Mail, another 32 devices would be added this month, surpassing the 100 target we set for ourselves. Announcement to come shortly. Check back a little while.

Wow! It was an amazing show for us. Great turnout, overwhelming response, lotsa emails to follow up, lotsa interests coming for TWUIK and even our Tricast Mail v2 (Still in development). Many people came, saw, and walked away impressed, especially with the UI mockups (iPhone, Widsets, ZenZui, Yahoo GO) we created. It was good to know that developers like TWUIK and the powerful animation engine it provides to drive User Interface for JavaME applications. We saw lotsa Sun Microsystem staff coming to our booth, it was flattering, really.

Please bear with us if we don’t blog as often for next couple of days as we are busy preparing the re-launch of our website v2.

Setting up the booth - JavaONE 2007. More photos on our FLICKR album.

And yes, it’s official, you had seen TWUIK customer list at the show - France Telecom/Orange, Khazana Japan, Jayway, Ascenna, XCE, EziTime and Neotilus. These have all signed up in just the short 3 months since we launched our preview beta. And we have more to announce in the pipeline. Watch this space.