Korwe’s technology

1. platform-independence,
2. handset independence,
3. network independence,
4. application flexibility, and
5. leverage existing infrastructure.

Until now, mobile applications have been relatively unpopular with non-technical users. Smartphone users are more likely to buy and install apps, and the iPhone’s Application store has been a relative success, but the tendency remains: people don’t like downloading and installing software on their handsets.

Mobile applications are also a challenge for the developer: mobile devices are intolerant of bad coding. Software engineering has to be rigorous. Your code must be highly efficient and bug-free. Each handset needs tweaks to the software for it to run well. It’s difficult, expensive, an ever-moving target.

These problems have mostly gone away with the new paradigm of browser-based applications. Information, productivity and entertainment services for mobile don’t need installed applications – Web-based apps do the same job, better. Powerful built-in browsers with standardised ways to render content has ushered in the age of the mobile browser app. Quicker to develop, easier to get right, and the heavy lifting is done on the back-end, which can easily integrate with your existing technology infrastructure.

Korwe does mobile software development (using Java/J2ME), but more importantly it is skilled in client-client and client-server applications running over the GMS/3G networks. Skills lie in business productivity systems, consumer support systems, mobile gaming and gambling (mGaming), mCommerce and location services. Korwe provides Software Development Kits (SDK) and middleware, custom application development along with software engineering consulting.

Korwe’s long term view is that context will become the most important aspect in mobile software development, mirroring the growth of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 on the traditional Internet.

Korwe is a company at the leading edge of science and technology: it is active in a number of national and international R&D communities, including Real Time Java, 3G air interfaces, software defined radio (SDR) and social network theory.