Open Screen Project Involves Adobe, Nokia & Palm

These big names are all teaming up on an open screen project that has $10 million to give out in grants.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2009 in Barcelona, Spain kicked off today and with it comes a glut of information from various mobile phone and related companies on new products and offerings. One of the things that many hoped to hear from Adobe at MWC was Flash for the iPhone.

While the iPhone Flash announcement hasn’t been made, Adobe announced it is extending the reach of the Flash platform with a new joint effort with Nokia called the Open Screen Project. Adobe and Nokia have funded the project with $10 million that the companies say will be given in the form of grants. Adobe’s Anup Murarka said, “This is an effort to foster the creation, distribution and marketing of applications. It is a vehicle for grants; it is not a VC [venture capital] fund.”

Adobe and Nokia will be taking applications from developers for grant money. Concepts submitted will be required to work on multiple screens including mobile screens, desktop and other consumer electronic devices. Applications will be judged for how robust the application or planned implementation is, how well it exploits the capabilities of Nokia devices and those of Adobe Flash and AIR platforms.

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Open Screen Project Involves Adobe, Nokia & Palm