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Australian mobile software technology developer Kannuu has inked its first global distribution deal with US based portable consumer gadget provider Coby Electronics.

Under the strategic alliance Kannuu’s locally developed ‘look up proprietary technology” user interface, will be integrated in new models of Coby MP3 players. Coby is slated to release the new units at retail stores through the U S in Q3 2008. The Kannuu interface helps navigate on devices that can’t accommodate a keyboard and can be applied to a variety of handsets and electronic devices from phones to MP3 players and set top boxes. Kannuu claim that you could find a song or artist three times faster with its interface than you could on an Apple iPod, with its scroll wheel. Coby said that Kannuu enabled devices allow the broadest range of users to make the most of their digital collections with a state-of-the-art, easy to use, low-cost solution, which eliminates lengthy searches or scrolls through hundreds or possibly thousands of files. Kannuu was forged in Australia by founder and CTO Kevin Din a serial tech entrepreneur, former Vodafone and Personal Broadband Australia executive Jonathan Withers who is an executive director, and Adstream CEO Gerard Barron who is chairman. The privately funded company launched straight into the US market late last year, appointing Texas based CEO Sean-Michael Daley and received a global boost in March winning the Nokia Mobile Rules Technology Innovation Award for Best Mobile Multimedia experience.. “With the proliferation of digital content comes the growing need to simplify and accelerate the time-consuming task of searching on the go. Our unmatched lookup technology will give music fans everywhere a better, faster and easier way of accessing their digital libraries, and we are pleased to help Coby ‘turn up the volume’ for consumers, ” Daley said.

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