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Forum Nokia launched a new global challenge calling all innovators in the world to compete for the best mobile solution and $150.000 total cash and prize.

We are calling for phone applications that solve real problems that face real people. Please submit an application that solves a problem in one of the following areas.

Technology Showcase - “Developer Showdown”: This category offers the opportunity to show off your technical kung fu and introduce the world to your true killer app! Open to all technologies, if it runs on S60 or Series 40, then we want to see it! Regardless if it has just been created or you have been selling it for a while, casual or commercial, we want to showcase the best of the best. Be it on Flash Lite, Java, Python, or open source. If it’s a game, enterprise solution, Web-based widget, or just a cool application that will enhance the mobile user experience, then this is the category to enter.

Eco-Challenge - “Make a Difference”: Here is your chance to join an important world-wide movement! Assist Nokia in creating mobile devices, software and services that reduce our impact on the environment.  Make a difference by submitting the application that will minimize mobility’s global environmental impact and help people make sustainable choices.  Developers who submit for this category will be building tools to help people take care of the environment - from charger reminders to mobile learning applications, from navigation info to recycling tips.

Emerging Markets - “IMAGINE the Possibilities”: Get involved in defining and creating services for the Next Billion mobile users. The mission of the Emerging Markets Challenge is to open up new opportunities for developers to pioneer & monetize services impacting the daily lives of millions in developing nations.  Examples of Emerging Market solutions include applications providing health information and data access, apps offering low-cost infotainment, SMS-driven apps that inform rural agricultural workers of the best time and place to bring products to market, as well as literacy and general education solutions.

Glad to see our innovative product Easy Vote in the list :) And kudos to overall winner CityLite!

Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications. The winners are:

Grand Prizes

Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.

WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing application with MapQuest APIs to let users look for and get directions to places of interest.

Europe/Middle East/Africa

• Flash: Kuneri Easy Vote from Kuneri of Oulu, Finland. One-button mobile voting lets users vote by mobile phone call, text message, or Web service.
• WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K.

Americas

• Flash: CityLite by MSCorp.
• WRT: Fon11 by Mo’Blast of Berkeley, California. A mobile social-networking utility that lets users share their whereabouts with friends and family and determine if their contacts are nearby.

Asia-Pacific

• Flash: WIND from Fieldsystem. This screen saver displays an image of a propeller turning in the wind. If the mobile signal is strong, the propeller spins quickly; if the signal weakens, the propeller spins more slowly. Also, the screen saver’s background scenery changes throughout the day.
• WRT: Nutrition from Singapore Polytechnic. This widget is used for calculating your BMI and also calories burned on a daily basis, and it can help the user to check typical food nutrition in order to maintain a healthy life style.

China

• WRT: Push To Speak from Beijing Motech Technology. This mobile travel guide to China helps tourists search for restaurants, places of interest, streets and more. Also, when the user clicks a word, the software “speaks” the word in Chinese, a useful feature for asking directions and instructing taxi drivers. The latest version includes information relating to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Forum Nokia has launched a new competition for S60 developers. There will be a new programming challenge on a monthly basis and best solutions will be awarded:

Problem for January

S60 supports multiple different runtimes and programming languages. The aim of this month’s competition is to come up with a way to combine different runtimes.

We are asking you to design and implement a framework that unifies S60 runtimes. The goal is intercommunication of runtimes (for example Symbian C++, Java, Flash, Python, Web Runtimes, you name it). With this kind of runtime interaction it is possible to access new features and re-use existing solutions in a manner that is unheard of. Provide us with your framework implementation and also at least one working example of runtimes interworking. If you don’t have time to implement all the necessary parts - let us know your ideas and planned design to score more points in the contest.

The January’s competition is open until 15th of February (15.2.2008) and we hope to have the best solutions published by the end of February.

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Some shameless promotion of our products here:

About frameworks, KuneriLite framework which unifies pure Symbian C++ and Flash Lite, is based on HTTP protocol, giving unlimited access from Flash Lite to S60 features with simple API.
Developer is able to create real S60 application, using powers of Flash Lite in UI development and utilize smartphone features, without thinking of implementatation for platform, in this case for Symbian OS.

When developing on top of KuneriLite framework, it is possible to create hybrid application mixing Flash Lite, Symbian C++ and even Open C runtime modules!

Porting existing C-implementation to S60 environment is dramatically faster, than creating complete Symbian version..

HTTP protocol allows to spread the development to different areas, like using J2ME for development, but there the functionality is limited and access to S60 features is pretty constrained.

We are publishing new release soon with new features!

Riku posted a challenge in Yahoo Flash Lite tech-group:

You can take something you’ve made earlier or create some cool Flash Lite content and package it into a WRT widget, post it on MOSH and tag it as ‘widget’ before the end of this year and you’re in!

Winner gets N95 8GB!

Nokia announced winners in Open C challenge developer contest:

MobiTubia Grand Prize Winner

Mobitubia lets you browse YouTube videos.

It is a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application, developed by Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkog from Thailand (received a cash prize of $10,000.). The developer ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS. Demo was really cool!

Other winners were LiveTraffic and MobiClass. (LiveTraffic is traffic assistance software and MobiClass is a virtual multi-media courseware application)

Gongratulations!

What is Open C all about:

Sponsored by Nokia’s global developer support program, Forum Nokia, in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge invited developer entrants to submit open source applications built for mobile or desktop environments and ported to S60 on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++ applications developed in the Open C environment.

Open C Plug-In lowers the barriers to entry and reduces the learning curve for developers porting an application’s logic and core components to the S60 platform. Utilizing eight standard C function libraries, Open C enables developers to more easily migrate a broad range of open source and desktop applications to Symbian OS.

More information.

TechCrunch (and a few other blogs) started a competition “The Crunchies“. We would like to give it a try; so if you love Kuneri and Kuneri products, we would appreciate your vote! Just give the name “Kuneri” to convenient category, all set.

Those would be the categories we think we could be nominated for;

- Best bootstrapped startup - we are 100% self funded
- Best mobile startup - we create innovative mobile content and development tools

You can vote here.

The International Mobile Gaming Awards, the largest competition for talented mobile game developers worldwide, sees improvements in mobile games development worldwide.

SAN FRANCISCO October 23. The Judges from the International Mobile Games Awards (IMGA) have shortlisted the 25 titles from 224 game developers across 42 countries who are competing to be the most innovative unpublished game of 2007.

The IMGA is the leading annual competition for mobile games which rewards the most talented games designers and companies for innovation in design and technology. This is an industry led initiative sponsored by major players in the industry including Adobe Movida, Nokia (main sponsors) and AMD, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. The preliminary judging process was completed in Marseille in the Belle de Mai. The results of these deliberations are announced today with a shortlist of 25 games in 5 different categories:

Excellence in Gameplay

Excellence in Connectivity

Excellence in 3D

Best IP-based game

Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)

Each of the 392 games were unpublished titles at time of submission and came from all across the globe. 45% of these entries came from Europeans, 26% came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world. The selection of the nominees is the result of two judging rounds. On the 3rd of October 20 judges based in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, the USA, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK have reviewed the entries. Based on their scores, the IMGA staff has determined a top 100. On the 5th of October 10 jury members have gathered in Marseille, France to review the top 100 and to determine which games are to be shortlisted for the IMGA 2007. The final Judging process will take place in February and requires the nominees to supply fully playable versions of their games by 28th January.

“The quality of this year’s submission was extremely high. We are pleased to see that the studios have invested more time in presenting their games better. The judges have had a very difficult task this year to select the nominees out of such a wealth of quality games. We hope that publishers and operators will pick these games up so they will reach the consumers, because we are convinced that consumers deserve the quality and game play that we discovered in this year’s edition.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.

The full shortlist of 25 nominees can be reviewed on www.imgawards.com and on Monday 22nd of October the public will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite game. This special award will be given at the final award ceremony in February. Further details of the IMGA Ceremony in February will be released separately.

CONTACT:

The International Mobile Gaming Awards

PR and Marketing

Jessica Rei

jessica@imgawards.com

tel: +33 491315217

All nominated games can be reviewed at www.imgawards.com/2007_nominees.php

Everybody is invited to register and vote for its favorite game !

Probably it’s Flash Lite contest season;

SWX contest by Aral;

Create any cool experiment, site, application, and/or mashup that uses SWX RPC, either with SWX PHP or without writing any server-side code at all by using the SWX APIs on the Public SWX Gateway. You can choose to use the SWX ActionScript Library (recommended) or go native with loadMovie()!

All entries must play back in the Flash Player (SWX RPC is supported on Flash Player 6 and above, and Flash Lite 2.x). You cannot use SWX RPC with ActionScript 3/Flash 9/Flex 2 projects at the moment (a version for AVM2 is in the works.)

Mobile Contest in association with Playoo;

Are you a Flash games developer? Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, hobbyist or professional, you can put your Flash Lite games in front of a big audience, with the chance to build a following. Start now by entering the launch contest, and you can also win significant prizes.

Since the 24th of September 6 pm, the International Mobile Gaming Awards is closed for entries and prepares for the judging session, which will take place in Marseille next week. Before this, an international panel of judges, based in Japan, China, Korea, USA, France, UK, Germany and Italy will make a first pre-selection of the 80 best games.

These pre-selected games will then be presented in front of an international jury who gathers in a room in Marseille for a full day of judging. They will select five nominees in each of the 5 categories:

Excellence in Gameplay
Excellence in Connectivity
Excellence in 3D
Best IP-based game
Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)

This year, the IMGA has focused on unpublished games and has requested more work and support material from developers as in the previous years. Despite these important restrictions the IMGA has received almost 400 entries from 33 countries. 45% of all entries came in from Europe, with the UK as the largest number of entries. 26% of the entries came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world.

“This edition is showing a further growth in professionalism and quality worldwide and some astonishing innovations that we can’t wait to disclose to a wider audience, after the judging sessions. We have seen new work of both
the established studios as of small studios and individuals. Excellent work came in from all over the world in all categories: amazing 3D games, clever connected games, cross platform games, but also many Flash games looking a
lot better than the ones we saw last year.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.

The IMGA is sponsored by Adobe, Movida, Nokia and co-sponsored by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Belle-de-Mai Media Park, Marseille and AMD.

Boston, Australia and Brazil Adobe mobile and devices user groups announce winners of the 2006 Flash Lite application contest. Congratulations to all winners!