
November 10, 2009 (Tokyo, Japan)—Acrodea, Inc. (President: Junya Tsutsumi), headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, and SoftBank Mobile Corp. (CEO and President: Son Masayoshi), headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, have executed a license regarding the providing of Acrodea’s Emoji Lite.
Acrodea’s Emoji Lite features the automatic insertion to mobile email of invariably necessary picture fonts. This breakthrough middleware solution has been adopted under Raku Deco offered by SoftBank Mobile and enables the easy creation of decorative email. For SoftBank Mobile handsets implemented with Emoji Lite, the feature can automatically insert picture fonts in the context of the message, including picture fonts and personalized picture fonts with the single press of a key. The use of Emoji Lite enables sending of decorative email easily without losing the opportunity. Expressively richer, more enjoyable correspondence can be accomplished.

About Emoji Lite
Acrodea’s Emoji Lite features the automatic insertion to mobile email of invariably necessary picture fonts. This breakthrough middleware solution further enhances email as a communication tool. Emoji Lite can eliminate the manual effort, and generate email containing picture fonts quickly and easily. The operation is quite simple. After an email message is drafted, the feature can automatically insert picture fonts with the single press of a key. Emoji Lite has independently compiled dictionary files, based on frequently appearing words. Upon identification of such words referenced from the dictionary, picture font characters that match the email message content are automatically inserted.
Acrodea, Inc., is a software technology R&D firm involved in middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly focused on interface technologies connecting between the user and terminal, and currently provides UI (user interface) technologies and email enhancement technologies to the market. We are also applying R&D energy towards the enhancement of graphics performance, which is indispensable in facilitating usage of mobile platform interfaces. Listed on the Mothers Market (Code: 3823, TSE), Acrodea is headquartered in Tokyo, and maintains an overseas presence in Seoul, Korea; Helsinki, Finland; and Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. For more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.
For inquiries about this release, please contact the following:
IR-PR Group, Administrative Dept. at Acrodea, Inc.
TEL:+81 3-5768-8606 Email: products@acrodea.co.jp