Team Signbook: Who are you and what does your App?
We are 3rd year Information Technology students from the Turku University of Applied Sciences. Members of Team Signbook are: Tomi Härkönen, Kimmo Koski, Petteri Lehtonen and Johannes Maliranta. We participated in Imagine Cup 2010 Finnish semifinals with the Signbook application. The challenge it solves originates from the sign language interpreter students at Diak: they needed an application that eases and boosts the studying of sign language. Signbook is basically an open bank for sign language terms.

You can follow the development of Signbook in Facebook:...

Ari Jaaksi has been involved in the mobile communications industry for more than 15 years and is currently Vice President, MeeGo Devices, for Nokia. In this role, Ari Jaaksi is responsible for the strategy and implementation of Nokia’s mobile Linux and open source based products, and software platforms. He heads the development of Nokia’s Linux-based devices, software and Nokia’s open source developer operations on www.maemo.org.

Ari Jaaksi joined Nokia in 1998 and has held various positions including the head of Nokia’s mobile browser development and the head of Nokia’s software research lab. At Nokia, Ari Jaaksi was instrumental in creating Nokia...

Julien calls himself a Catalyst, a Visionary and a Social Animal. As Director of Le Catalyst, his primary role is to support their clients in making things happen and enabling them to refine their vision and deliver their products.

While at the Symbian Foundation, he worked as a Technology Catalyst, helping shape and communicate the value proposition and the future of the Symbian platform. Prior to moving to London to take up this position, he worked at Nokia, initially joining the E-Series division in 2007 before moving into the newly formed Devices Organization. During his time at Nokia, he developed his productization expertise...

In addition to Software, BizSpark members get support and visibility opportunities. Eitbit Ltd, based in Finland, was selected as startup of the day. 

Timo Poikolainen, Managing Director of Eitbit Ltd:
“Between nomination and selection as a BizSpark startup of the day, Eitbit released updated versions of all of its accessory programs including Eitbit Picture Resize, Eitbit Tree and Eitbit Study. These updated versions were digitally signed and Windows 7 Logo tested; that is something we learned from a Microsoft partner meeting last year. Since that, code signing and logo-testing have been an important part of Eitbit...