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Ericsson Application Awards page

Just spreading the word and reminding of: Ericsson has the deadline in the end of January, for registration of team for the great opportunity for student developers to gain exposure with the telecom world and have a chance to win upwards of EUR 20,000 in prize money.

That’s right, the competition is for students, but any company can participate as discussion partner to support the students during the development. Students should choose the company contact to join the competition. Process is described here. The point of the competition is to utilize Ericsson Labs enablers.

If you know any talented postgraduate or undergraduate students why not give them a hint :)

Maybe not the grand prize, but we are happy to see Pikkoo in the list of Judge’s Choice Award for Nokia Calling All Innovators global contest.

First round of the contest was maybe not exactly our thing; but the next round has a special category for S60. I strongly believe we have a good chance there :)

A new round of Calling All Innovators was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The new categories for the contest are: Internet Innovation, Flash, Emerging Markets

Adobe ja sponsorit jakavat yhteensä 100.000$ kisassa, jossa paras
sisältö saa 30.000$.

Kilpailuluokat ovat:

• Best Game
• Best Sports Application
• Best Infotainment Application
• Best Lifestyle Application
• Best Social Networking Application

Paitsi rahapalkinnot, kisassa on myös mahdollisuus:

• saada Adobe CS 4 Master collection ohjelmistopaketti omakseen
• saada tuote julkiseen levitykseen

Kilpailuun voi ilmoittautua maaliskuun loppuun mennessä :
http://www.flashlitedeveloperchallenge.com/

Lots of great news from Adobe from Mobile World Congress 2009. The Flash Lite Developer Channelge is launched with US$ 100.000 in cash prizes, and $30.000 in cash as the grand winner.

Competition challenges 3 groups of developers:

1. Those currently working with Flash Lite
2. Flash developers interested in developing applications for mobile devices
3. Mobile application developers interested in using Flash Lite.

If you belong to one of these groups and you are a company or an individual, a professional or a researcher, you can enter the competition in one of the five categories, get access to great tools from Adobe and stand a chance of winning one of the great cash prizes and promotional packages from our sponsors.

First deadline is 31st March.

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.