News & Press | Archives 2001-2003
The Forum Nokia website features
an extensive case study on Leiki. The document describes in detail our general philosophy, technological foundation and the productised applications.
Click here to download!
7.11.03 Leiki technology matches participants of Nokia conference
The Mobile Matchmaker service helps participants at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference (NMIC) to easily find each other. As in our Leiki Focus for Matchmaking product, the users type in a free text description which is automatically profiled. Instead of dating preferences, the ontology in the NMIC case describes in detail the mobile value chain and the participants' roles.
5.11.03 National Technology Agency funds Leiki R&D
The Finnish Technology Agency (Tekes) has decided to grant funding for Leiki R&D.
Leiki has been supported since 2000 by the Agency for two previous R&D projects in the USIX program.
The focus of the current project in the FENIX program is on implementation of new technologies for the Leiki Targeting engine.
The aim is to further enhance our competitive advantage by improving personalisation of future content services and integration with emerging ontology standards. A significant part of the project is continuing co-operation with leading research institutions such as Universities of Helsinki and
Oulu and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
 22.10.03 Leiki's Virtual Agent in Nokia Game 2003
A central character in Nokia Game 2003 is Flo, an animated virtual personality you can chat with.
She's a clever girl who likes snowboarding, mobile online gaming and traveling.
Flo is powered by Leiki's Virtual Agent product coupled to Leiki Answer and she is pre-installed on N-Gage game decks shipped in late fall and winter of 2003 in the EMEA region. The application is also available by download for the Nokia 3650 phone.
 7.10.03 Leiki announces Virtual Agent and Virtual Assistant
Virtual Assistant provides an intelligent and friendly user interface to automated customer service applications powered by Leiki Targeting. It answers questions without human help and can deliver fully personalised information streams to your customers.
Virtual Agent provides similar functions to entertainment applications, such as fanclub services. It can take on the look and personality of any popular person, whether human or artificial.
6.10.03 Patents applied for on key technological advances
Two new patent applications on significant technological advances in Leiki Targeting and Virtual Agent products have been filed. "Our continuing progress on the IPR protection front should comfort both customers and partners on the unique advantages of their investment in Leiki technology", states CEO Pennanen.
1.8.03 First half of 2003 profitable
Three years have passed since the founding of the company and the financial result for 1H/03 is profitable. "In the current market profitability for a mobile software developer is exceptional. Leiki's success has been built on a correct vision of unique concepts, strict cost control and most importantly very talented and motivated personnel. Instead of building hype, we have concentrated on listening to our customers and giving them a real value add," comments CEO Petrus Pennanen.
 17.4.03 Leiki on National TV
Leiki is covered today in the IT-News program of the Finnish National Broadcasting channel YLE24. Leiki's CEO Petrus Pennanen introduced the Leiki product portfolio and spoke about Leiki's bright insights. Juha Ihalainen, Concept Manager at Radiolinja (a leading Finnish mobile operator) was interviewed about the success of Leiki FreeDate (based on Leiki Focus for Matchmaking) at Radiolinja's mobile fun portal.
10.2.03 Leiki UK London office opens
Leiki UK Managing Director Mark Bembridge is happy to announce the availability of Leiki's groundbreaking products in the UK market: "We're miles ahead of the competition and there's a high level of customer interest." Mark can be reached at mark.bembridge(at)leiki.com, +44 207 598 9790.
30.1.03 Leiki Focus for News in a positioning WLAN pilot
Leiki Focus for News with Reuters quality content is online in the PDAs of a positioning WLAN pilot running in the northern Finnish town of Oulu. The SmartRotuaari system has been organised by University of Oulu, City of Oulu, Mobile Forum, several local businesses and mobile developers. One key Leiki R&D area is co-operation with such pilots on both core technology and end-user application development.
2.12.02 Leiki headquarters move to center of Helsinki
The Finnish headquarters of Leiki have moved to an impressive Jugend style house built in 1905 in the heart of Helsinki. The new street address is Pohjoinen Makasiinikatu 7 A 4, 00130 Helsinki. The phone numbers and electronic addresses remain unchanged.
1.11.02 Leiki introduces automatic profiling with MeSH
Leiki has developed an automatic profiling and personalisation system for biomedical content based on the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ontology developed by the National Institute of Health.
The classification structure has about 20 000 categories (headings) and more than 100 000 word patterns connected to them. Our first application for the ontology has been Leiki News with Reuters medical sciences content, where very comprehensive profiles are formed of each article. The feed is then personalised by learning from user actions and feedback. With features such as intelligent profile based search included we are excited about connecting the product to biomedical databases.
14.6.02 Machine learns customer service (Tekes press release)
"Where does the bus to the airport leave from?" It is often difficult to get quick answers to simple questions. A personalisation solution developed by Leiki Ltd automatises answering of questions sent to customer service.
This press release (pdf) by the National Technology Agency emphasises the cost-effectiveness of our unique personalisation technology.
20.5.02 Presentation at National Technology Agency spring day
Leiki CEO Petrus Pennanen's presentation at a National Technology Agency USIX program spring day generated considerable interest. See the presentation here (pdf) and send us a note for more material.
15.2.02 News is the most popular service in Sonera Mspace
News in Mspace is a version of Leiki News for PDAs. Like our other services, it uses the Leiki Targeting personalisation technology to continuously adapt a news feed to the user's interests. A special point in this implementation done for Sonera is the unique level of privacy provided by a user-held, user-controlled personal profile.
In a user survey News was found to be the most popular service of the many 3G candidates offered in the pilot. As we have observed with our other services, our continuously learning personalisation approach significantly increases intensity of use and product lifespan for all content services. This success and the privacy advantages are discussed in this Digitoday article - in Finnish only, sorry!
30.11.01 Radiolinja and Aktivist launch the world's easiest mobile dating service
Freedate ("Vapaahaku" in Finnish) is a mobile dating service that combines an extreme ease of use with detailed profiling and matching of users. It is the first dating service where profiling is done on the go from free-form SMS messages instead of time-consuming WWW forms filled with a PC. The SMS interface doesn't use hard-to-remember parameters which enables spontaneous, instruction-free mobile dating for the first time.
Radiolinja currently has 1.2 million subscribers in Finland. Its network was used for the first GSM call in the world in 1991. Aktivist serves local information through magazines, WWW and mobile internet in seven countries. The service uses adaptive personalisation technology developed by Leiki.
2.11.01 CityInfo in Sonera Mspace
CityInfo gives you a personal view on music, movies, restaurants, sports and cultural events in major Finnish towns. It uses Mspace Personalisation to update your profile based on your actions and to find out which items are personally relevant. The same profile is shared by the News service, so if you e.g. read about the "A.I." movie in CityInfo you're more likely to get news on Artifical Intelligence in the News service. The content for the service is provided by Aktivist.
11.10.01 Leiki Answer applied for brand enhancement
A popular Finnish entertainment brand, Extremeduudsonit, has chosen Leiki Answer for its multifaceted SMS query service.
2.10.01 Sonera Mspace Personalisation and News
Leiki and Sonera Mspace launch a pioneering client-based personalisation service. It is accompanied by a personalising News reader for Finnish News Agency content.
The applications run in the Mspace Mstation 3G pilot environment. The hardware is a Compaq iPaq with a motion-sensitive bluetooth sleeve and a Nokia 6210 phone with a bluetooth battery. This is the closest you can get to 3G at the moment, so try it out yourself by registering at the site!
14.6.01 Leiki Targeting
Our technology platform Leiki Targeting goes public. An STT News service using the Targeting software is online - contact us for access! See the technology and products sections for more information.
14.6.01 Partnerships announced
Partnerships on research and business development are announced. See partners section.
For more information please mail to info (at) leiki.com
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