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Nokia today announced its new Launchpad mobile software developer offering for the broad range of software developer companies seeking a fast-track for creating applications that target the millions of devices based on Nokia mobile platforms in the market today. It has 800 euros annual fee. Read the full press release.

Nokia is very pleased to offer Launchpad to any software developer company seeking to build mobile applications and services for the growing global smartphone market, said Lee Epting, Vice President, Forum Nokia. By addressing the particular needs of these developers through Launchpad, both in terms of technology access and support, we will be helping them accelerate their development cycle to bring new and exciting applications to Nokia mobile platforms.

Dale calls for Flash Lite animations to distribute through Moket Content Network. If you have some animated Flash Lite content that you keep under your pillow and would like to turn them into cash, contact Dale.

The MCN is now looking for more Flash Lite content to feed into this large global pipeline. We are looking for high quality Flash Lite animations that can be used for screensavers, wallpapers or animated ringtones - right now! These animations need to be very creative and of a high visual standard, ready to catch the imagination of a global market that are used to animated GIFS for personalisation content!

I watched No Plan, No Capital, No Model… No Problem video on Guy Kawasaki’s blog recently. It is almost 2 hours of talk about start ups that neither has a business plan nor a business model with a capital between $0 to $100K and succeeded that well you cold not expect. Especially the story of PlentyOfFish touched me very bad :) I highly recommend you to watch this video and listen what these guys say; it’s very motivating and pushes your buttons of motivation and courage.

I’ve moderated many panels in my time, and if I had to choose one that entrepeneurs should watch, this is it. If you’re one guy/gal or two guys/gals in a garage, it will push all the right buttons, and you’ll love it. However, if your plan is to raise several million dollars from venture capitalists and then hire five engineers, one vp of biz dev, one CTO, two testers, and a vp of marketing to ship a product in a year, you probably shouldn’t spend your time watching it.

Alessandro leaded the way to Flash Mobile and Devices group on LinkedIn. If you already use LinkedIn and would like to expand your network with Flash Lite developers, please join.

Nokia announced that they are re-organizing their company organization; Devices, Services & Software and Markets. This seems much logical than the previous one. I think they need such changes and improvements to reduce the internal problems. Read the press release.

Nokia today announced that it will introduce a new company structure from January 1, 2008. The move, driven by Nokia’s strategy, is aimed at creating an organization aligned with the opportunities Nokia sees for future growth, and to increase efficient ways of working across the company.

Under the new organization, Nokia’s current business group and horizontal group structure in the device business will be replaced by three main units: Devices, responsible for creating the best device portfolio for the marketplace; Services & Software, reflecting Nokia’s strategic emphasis on growing its offering of consumer internet services and enterprise solutions and software; and Markets, responsible for management of Nokia’s supply chains, sales channels and marketing activities.

A recent acquisition; On2 acquires Hantro. Ok, you are wondering why I post this as a news; 2 good reasons:

1) Hantro is a Finnish company based in Oulu. ( See where is Kuneri located )

2) On2 is a company that powers VP6 codec that is leveraged in Flash video. Hantro specializes in video for mobile. Which looks like On2 is on something about Flash Lite video.

See the press release and post for more detailed information about the acquisition.

Here is a good news:

Few weeks ago, Adobe announced with ASPire and China mobile that, China Mobile is now offering Flash Lite content download service for their subscribers. Subscribers with supported handsets can access and download Flash Lite content from five different categories via their Monternet service which is available through their phone’s web browser. With 350 million subscribers for China Mobile there’s a lot of opportunity for Flash Lite developers to sell their content to subscribers and we’re really excited about the opportunity in China for growing a Flash Lite ecosystem.

You can go to the 1:39:34 time mark in the recorded Adobe financial analyst presentation from 28 March to hear more about China Mobile and their Flash Lite download service.

Check out Bill’s blog post if you have any questions related to this issue.

Nokia today announced their new mobile advertising services with a press release. More information is available from the adservice web site.

Nokia today announced two mobile advertising services. Nokia Ad Service is a fully managed service for advertisers to conduct targeted advertising on mobile services and applications. Nokia Ad Service consists of a group of mobile publishers forming a mobile ad network and a platform to deploy, manage and optimize mobile advertising campaigns. Nokia also introduced Nokia Advertising Connector, a private label service for third party Publishers and Advertising Aggregators that want to extend to relevant mobile advertising. Nokia Advertising Connector operates as an intelligent switch, selecting between text, visual, audio and video ads - depending on the user’s context - and feeding the ad to the device.

via Aniway

It’s tough for a (mobile) game developer, both to develop and sell a game. Development and business are two different aspects and both might get way too complicated. You might be a thrilling developer and make an amazing game, but how good it is if you can not sell as it deserves, or not at all?

Lauro started a topic on Forum Nokia about how to make money with mobile games. Many people telling their ideas and experiences on the subject. If you have some words to say, please contribute.

I would also recommend that you read gameProducer, where you can get to know many practical information about game business.

Also we learnt that, refreshmobile has a mobile game contest for their mobizines with £2000 prize.

Adobe announces today that Handango is now one of the first ecosystem enablers to monetize Flash Lite content. Developers now can join Handango’s content partner program and start participating with their content for Nokia S60 and Series 40 platforms.

Handango is one of the leading providers of smartphone content globally and is now working with Adobe to enable developers to make money. Handango handles selling, marketing, distributing, and sales reporting for your Flash Lite applications and content.

via Bill