DataViz, Inc. today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS^TM. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global industry standard operating system for smartphones, to the world's leading handset manufacturers. As a Platinum Partner, DataViz is extending Documents To Go?‚ÂŽ and RoadSync^TM?‚ to the Symbian OS ecosystem. With smartphones based on Symbian OS, users have secure and wireless access to corporate e-mail, calendar, contacts, attachments and other office documents using innovative DataViz technology.

DataViz, Inc., leading provider of Office compatibility solutions for over 21 years, today announced that Documents To Go for Symbian UIQ is now available in German and French localized versions and includes support for Motorola A1000 and A925 smartphones. Documents To Go allows owners of Symbian UIQ devices, such as the popular Sony Ericsson P910 smartphone, to use, edit and create actual Microsoft Word and Excel files as well as view PowerPoint files. In conjunction with these new localized versions, Documents To Go for Symbian UIQ now includes additional spreadsheet enhancements, such as the ability to insert and delete rows and columns, freeze panes, and format cells using alignment, bold, italic and color options as well as TrueType font* support.

At Microsoft TechEd 2005 Europe, DataViz, Inc., leading provider of Office compatibility solutions for over 21 years, today announced that its new RoadSync solution for Symbian UIQ smartphones is shipping. Based on the Exchange ActiveSync protocol licensed from Microsoft, RoadSync is the first commercially available software solution to provide secure, wireless and direct synchronization with Exchange Server 2003, thereby extending the existing mobile benefits of Exchange Server 2003 to reach non-Microsoft devices. RoadSync for Symbian UIQ offers full mobile access to corporate Outlook e-mail, attachments, calendar and contacts, making the popular Sony Ericsson P900/P910 series smartphones the first non-Microsoft devices to support the full Exchange ActiveSync implementation.

DataViz, Inc., leading provider of Office compatibility solutions for over 21 years, announced today that its award-winning mobile Office suite, Documents To Go, is now available for Sony Ericsson P800/P900/P910 smartphones. Building on the market success of the number one selling Documents To Go for Palm OS, DataViz has extended the product line to now offer owners of these Sony Ericsson series of smartphones the ability to use, edit and create actual Microsoft Word and Excel files as well as view PowerPoint files. Developed for the Symbian UIQ platform and specifically for Sony Ericsson P800/P900/P910 smartphones, this new edition is also the first to incorporate DataViz™ unique InTact Technology. This groundbreaking technology ensures complete document integrity when Microsoft Office files are opened and edited by users on mobile platforms, eliminating the need for conversion or desktop computer synchronization. Any edits will be intelligently merged with a files existing formatting to create an updated document that can be e-mailed or exchanged with others directly from the smartphone.

Last week we looked at Project Professional, an application which used the Sony Ericsson P910i's Java support for project management. Sony Ericsson have a comprehensive Java strategy, from their Symbian OS powered phones down. This paper from Sony Ericsson explains the strategy.

Sony Ericsson has adopted a Java platform strategy for its mobile phones which we believe is key to supporting content developers in their struggle to create applications for a multitude of phones. Currently, there are five Java Platform versions used for Sony Ericsson feature and mass-market phones, and two for Sony Ericsson smartphones. By making Sony Ericsson's Java Platform Strategy public to the developer community, our aim is to help developers concentrate on enhancing the game-playing experience for the end-user instead of spending all of their time on porting issues. When new Java Platform versions are introduced in the future, we plan on making these public also.