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SiRF Technology and Openwave Systems recently announced to have signed a definitive agreement to slot in SiRF’s SiRFstudio location capabilities with Openwave MIDAS, a mobile AJAX-enabled application development platform. The objective is for wireless operators, content publishers and software designers to more simply install location context while generating mobile widgets, rich data services and online idle-screen UIs on mobile devices. Openwave’s location-based MIDAS application development platform has specifically been brought about to make available a consistent method for content publishers and designers to make access to a range of location features, from location determination to mapping and routing. The Openwave MIDAS application development environment is also integrated with tools to generate idle-screen widgets and a framework for widget finding, delivery, and lifecycle management. Openwave MIDAS has been developed to be operated on Windows Mobile, Symbian, BREW, QTopia, Linux and any feature phone platform. Openwave’s Nara Rajagopalan was quoted as saying, A key part of creating mobile services with a highly targeted and personalized experience is knowing where subscribers are, and the integration of the SiRFstudio APIs with MIDAS is designed to bring high-accuracy location technology within the reach of content publishers and developers. When combined with other existing content feeds and services in addition to other applications, location adds the geographic dimension and filtering needed to create compelling and highly relevant mobile data services that can drive Web content consumption on mobile devices. For its part, SiRF makes available a speedy location-enabled service app growth platform for software designers to implant location potentials into latest and current apps or services. SiRFstudio is part of the SiRFecosystem, a complete suite of tools and resources to accelerate growth, testing and marketing of LBS apps that bring about application diversification and make available a gripping locative experience for users. Image Read