READING, England -- To help mobile operators deliver an intuitive and compelling user experience across a diverse range of devices, SurfKitchen today announced that its market leading SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform is now available as a fully managed service. The new SurfKitchen White Label App Store enables mobile operators and their partners to quickly and easily deploy a complete end-to-end mobile application store across a diverse range of feature and smartphone platforms, including Android, Blackberry RIM, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile 7. By providing the scalability, cross-platform support, reliability and integration required to optimize the delivery and consumption of mobile Internet services and applications, the new release helps operators quickly and easily increase mobile data revenues and enhance customer loyalty.

The SurfKitchen White Label App Store builds on the proven and robust SurfKit Storefront technology that is used by global tier one mobile operators such as Orange Group and Telstra to overcome the discoverability, usability and fulfillment challenges typically associated with the delivery of mobile Internet applications and services. As a complete end-to-end service that includes a sophisticated application storefront, pre-integrated application catalogue, application launcher and carrier-class mobile server, the new managed service offering delivers rapid time to market for operators by reducing the risk and resources involved in building the required IT infrastructure and developer relations that are needed for a successful application store offering.

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READING, England -- SurfKitchen today announced that it is working with NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan's premier provider of leading-edge mobile voice, data and multimedia services and one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, to provide partner operators with an On-Device Portal solution, an innovative platform for 3G mobile services and applications.

Building on NTT DOCOMO's continued success overseas, the SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform will allow NTT DOCOMO Partner Operators to enjoy compelling mobile internet applications via an On-Device Portal, that gives customers quick and easy access to a range of mobile Internet services and applications including mobile TV, social networking and games etc.

SurfKitchen Inc.