GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

InfoLab21 globally acknowledged accomplishments place it at the cutting edge of developments in software, internet and telecommunications technology. This deserved reputation for academic excellence and entrepreneurial innovation has resulted in major research & development partnerships with corporate giants including:

• BBC
• BT
• Ford
• BAE Systems
• Cisco
• Microsoft
• Nokia

In collaboration with the world's most technologically advanced businesses, InfoLab21 is recognised for expertise in a broad, yet deep spectrum of pioneering initiatives such as:

• Multimedia communications
• Future internet technology
• Mobile and wireless systems
• Systems dependability
• Human-computer interaction
• Communications signal processing technologies
• Deployment of broadband networking

Nokia has been working with the Communications Systems department for many years - starting with the development of advance learning and training materials for mobile applications development and expanding into a wide variety of research into innovative mobile commerce systems and applications.

This research partnership equips the department with the very latest phones, software and development tools - often prior to their commercial release - which enables researchers to produce cutting edge applications for mobile phones such as mixed reality game PAC-LAN which is helping to shape a whole new genre in game development and the live Premiership Football results service MFOOTY which provides anytime, anywhere information as it happens.

Nokia supports the University's MSc in Mobile Game Design and M-Commerce Systems - one of the leading courses in mobile applications in Europe.

For more information about R&D at InfoLab21 see www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/research