LONDON, United Kingdom and VANCOUVER, Canada: February 27 2006:
Majinate Limited today announced the appointment of Meme Education to administer the Accredited Symbian Developer (ASD) examination program in North America.

 “The recent announcement of changes to the Symbian pricing model will appeal to the feature phone market segment and we now see the potential for a massive uptake of Symbian-based phones in North America.  This provides an ideal opportunity for North American businesses to exploit the great potential of the platform and create new products and services. The demand for competent Symbian OS C++ professionals is set to rise considerably”, said Mark Jacobs, Founder, Meme Education.

The online Accredited Symbian Developer exam simulates the challenges faced when developing for the Symbian mobile device environment, testing both theory and practice.  The exam is based on a core curriculum that will remain in step with the requirements of developers and their employers as Symbian OS evolves.

Ian Weston, Founder of Majinate Ltd said: “The Accredited Symbian Developer (ASD) exam represents independent third party affirmation and recognition of an individual or organisation's Symbian OS experience.  It also provides a developer with a means of differentiation from the competition.”

"Symbian welcomes Meme Education as an official re-seller of the Accredited Symbian Developer scheme in North America.  Accreditation to this agreed standard, allows developers to demonstrate their proficiency and expertise in Symbian OS to the industry", said Bruce Carney, Head of Developer Marketing, Symbian.

Meme Education will provide both on-line and supervised ASD exams to candidates in North America.  "Meme Education is in an exciting position within the Symbian ecosystem and has extensive Symbian OS and C++ expertise and experience.  Majinate is working with Meme Education in the ongoing definition of the developer accreditation program. By selecting Meme we have chosen a Partner that can reliably administer a program well-suited to the needs of North American Symbian developers", said Weston.

Mark Jacobs said: “Having assisted in the creation of the ASD exam, Meme Education are well-placed to work alongside Majinate in providing the emerging North American Symbian ecosystem with a proven method of assessment of Symbian OS development skills.”

Unsupervised ASD exams will be available online from March 2006 at www.meme-education.com, both for individuals and organisations. For information about volume purchasing and supervised exams, please contact info@meme-education.com.

About Majinate

Founded in 2004, Majinate is a specialist software engineering and consulting company for the mobile industry which uses an in-depth understanding of partnership approaches to rapidly bring together project teams to implement solutions using best of breed components, leading to long term business engagements and substantial project risk reduction.
Majinate operates the Accredited Symbian Developer scheme on behalf of Symbian.