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2008 MEX (mobile user experience) Design Competition announced

MEX Design Competition

Time to unleash your creativity and a product, service, platform or concept which will delight users and enhance the mobile experience. 🙂 The 2008 MEX Design Competition is announced.

What is MEX
The MEX Design Competition challenges the world’s most talented designers, engineers and visionaries to unleash their creativity and show us a product, service, platform or concept which will delight their target users and enhance the mobile experience.

Deadline: for entries is 23:00 GMT, Friday, 2nd May 2008.

The contest comprises a simple, two-part challenge
1. Describe your target mobile user
Tell us who they are, how they spend their days, what they love and what they hate. It can be a real person or someone you’ve imagined, but we want to know what makes them unique.

2. Describe your product, design, service or idea
Create a PDF file which combines illustrations, screenshots and annotations to explain how your solution would improve the mobile user experience for your target user. Our panel of expert judges will be relying on the information in this PDF to review your entry, so we encourage you to make it as creative, graphical and detailed as possible.

Read here for details

vivek

Nokia future phone “Morph” look into this intresting video

Morph is a concept looking at the potential applications of nanosciences in future handsets.
From nanowires that can sense the chemical properties of compounds in the air to nanowire grass that can turn the sun’s rays into electrical power, and nanoelectronics with greater computing power than today’s fastest computers, Morph is a beguiling vision.Read the BBC Technology Story to know “what Nokia’s scientists and researchers at their lab in Palo Alto to talk about the future of mobile phones in three, five and eight years.”

I love to be in Nokia design Center one day to see how they work and what is the process to design or thinking methodolgy for designing a new devices. . .curious 🙂

vivek

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Adobe’s Flash lite Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says!!

apple, iphone

Intresting news are coming up from everywhere that Adobe’s Flash lite Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs Says!! as he put it on Tuesday, Apple’s iPhone, with all its cutting-edge mobile Internet trickery, needs something much better than the current Flash player that Adobe makes for cellphones. The Flash Player option that fits the bill is made for devices like laptops that are larger than the iPhone; as a consequence, it performs too slowly on the iPhone.

“There’s this missing product in the middle,” Jobs said.

Read here

vivek

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Silverlight on Nokia – What It Means for Flash Lite Developers

 silverlight-flash

A nice post via bill comparing “Silverlight on Nokia – What It Means for Flash Lite Developers” Bill gives some thoughts and views how a developer can be effected or may be intrested using new technologies and what kind of strategy Adobe is applying to promote Flash lite. a long way to go.

Some of the points:

If you’re a mobile developer or business decision maker considering any technology for mobile development then there are questions that you should have:

  • What’s the addressable market supporting the technology
  • What’s the designer/developer workflow
  • What tools do I need
  • Can I leverage my skills or do I need to learn new ones
  • How do I distribute my content
  • Is the content inside/outside the mobile browser
  • What’s the developer community like
  • Can I reuse assets from the web
  • Can this technology allow me to have a multi-screen experience

Well!! i love Adobe Flash lite and it really gives me more ways to express my creativity which i love it 🙂 not sure how silverlight will be promising to me!!

vivek

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Yahoo unveils mobile content tool “oneplace”

yahoo onePlace

Yahoo Inc. unveiled onePlace, a mobile content management tool that help consumers keep their mobile information organized, up-to-date and personalized.

OnePlace, is based on using bookmarks to link to online content. Users will be able to make collections of links around various topics, and the tool can automatically update content such as game scores and stock prices, it also includes a mobile RSS reader, which enables users to read and subscribe to blog feeds.

Quite cool !!

vivek

Google Gears released on mobiles

Google Gears released on mobiles

Google has announced the release of its Google Gears service on mobile phones. Google Gears offers people offline access to services that are normally only available online.
“We are very excited by the potential here. We expect mobile apps built using Google Gears to usher in a new trend in mobile application development,” stated software engineer Chris Prince in a company blog.

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vivek

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Art in Mobile: LG Electronics mobile contents competition includes Adobe Flash lite section

LG Mobile content competition

Via Eung i got this news that LG Electronics in association with mutualresponse Launched “Art in Mobile” a mobile content competition which include Adobe Flash lite section. It’s great to see growing Adobe flash lite everywhere.

This page is in Korean language, i tried translating this page but not be able to get much details about it. It will be great if someone gives detail information about it.

I love to participate in such design competition and great to show what i love to do 🙂

Read complete details here

vivek

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Virgin Mobile launches in India, targets youth market

virgin mobile

Virgin Mobile launched new services in India Sunday, targeting the youth market in one of the world’s fastest growing regions, the company said.

Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson said the British company would offer music, entertainment and news on India’s film industry, sports and stock markets to about 400 million young Indians in the 15 to 30-year-old age group.
The British billionaire said his company would launch Virgin Mobile handset services through Tata Teleservices Ltd, a top Indian mobile operator, in 50 cities initially, expanding to more than 1,000 cities by December.

“India looks very, very promising. We need only a small percentage of the market to do well,” Branson told reporters at a news conference.

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Look!! India seems to be a very promising in future of mobile entertainment 🙂

vivek

Playyoo Launch Contest Winners Announced

Playyoo flash lite games

Playyoo, the largest collection of free Flash Lite games online today announced winners
The results are based only on community activity. From various measures, we derive a “game popularity index”. The algorithm for this has been enhanced over time to improve the fairness and balance. Clearly, game quality is a big factor in winning!!

The Winners are:
1. Match the Blocks a game by Samir won $10,000
2. The Empty Space a game by Loomand won $7,000
3. Panic Mechanic a game by marc won $3,000
4. qTile a game by ptm won $1,500
5. Ludo Cells a game by Samir
6. Mr. Shooti a game by Roozbeh won $1,000
7. Think Fast a game by izam won $500
8. Bog Frog a game by Ekleptica won $500
9. Fill Board a game by Samir
10. SokoLite a game by ptm won $500
11. Orang Bunian a game by Faisal Arbain won $500
12. Sketch Mini a game by santoki won $500
13. Sushi Mushi Mania a game by marc
14. Mondo Under a game by bitacora13
15. The Bee Game a game by lfons
16. UFO Catcher: Barnyard Abduction a game by Naz
17. Sea Combat a game by Mariam Dholkawala
18. Trop Tris a game by CreativeSource
19. Mr. Cease Fire a game by HungamaMobile
20. Shark-Thrasher a game by digitallamb

Read contest page for more info.

vivek

Nokia Opens Satellite Design Studio in Rio de Janeiro

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Espoo, Finland – Nokia has opened a satellite design studio in Rio de Janeiro reflecting the increasing impact Latin American style and culture is expected to have on the future design of mobile devices and services. Based at the Design School of UniverCidade, it will bring together Nokia designers, students and established local designers to explore new trends and ideas that will influence products for the Latin American and global markets.

The satellite studio is the second in a series Nokia is establishing in the world’s hottest new design capitals. The first was opened in Bangalore, India

Alastair Curtis, Nokia’s Chief Designer, said, “Brazil is an incredibly vibrant and diverse place and one that is constantly transforming and developing itself in new ways. This makes it a perfect place to inspire designers. It also has a wealth of emerging new design talent that will play a key role in shaping many of the global design trends we will see in the next few years. Combining the experience of our global design team with the local creativity and perspective of the students is a very exciting and creative way to explore new ideas in this important market for Nokia.”

It’s really very interesting that mobile companies are focusing more on design and design trends of local as well as impact of regional culture, trends to the global audiences. 🙂

Unfortunately i haven’t found much information about Nokia design studio, Bangalore!! Where it is located or is this studio is just meant for limited accessibility? It will be great if any one is reading this and post some information about it!!

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vivek

Apple: iPhone SDK, enterprise announcement next week

apple iphone

Apple on wednesday announced that it will present information on the future of the iPhone, including support for third-party programs and big business, at a special media event next week. An SDK would enable independent software developers to write programs that could be installed and run on the iPhone without modifying the iPhone’s core operating system.

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vivek

MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition includes Flash lite too

MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition

Mobikyo Announces the MobileMonday Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards Competition. Candidate companies must fall into one of three categories

– Start-ups: Recently founded with early-stage financing
– Emerging: Operating between Series A & B funding
– Academic: Students in an accredited University program

There is no restriction on the business model, platform or market segment. Whether you have a content, service or application, targeted at B2B or B2C customers and/or running on Java, Brew, Symbian or Flash, you can submit (note, with respect to going global, presentations must be made in English).

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vivek

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Widgets and Flash Lite Code Camps in the APAC

flash lite code camps

Via Biskero, Forum Nokia is organizing a Widgets and Flash Lite Code Camps in the APAC region. It will be held at Sydney, Singapore and Bangalore.During the camp, you’ll be overloaded with how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself. Quite cool to see such camps happening in India, Bangalore 🙂

Moket will be the guest speaker at the Sydney code camp. The Bangalore guest speaker is still to be decided!!

Place: Sydney, Australia
Date: 3rd April
Fee: AUD 20
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Place: BANGALORE, INDIA
Date: 9th APRIL
Fee: INR 2,000

I will be there, hope to see creative people around, catch me 🙂

Register for event here and details.

vivek

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph – a nanotechnology concept device

The Morph

The Morph

Very Intresting concept of a device using nanotechnology called “The Morph” developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (U.K.) – was launched on Monday alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition.

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces. Dr. Bob Iannucci, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia, commented: “Nokia Research Center is looking at ways to reinvent the form and function of mobile devices; the Morph concept shows what might be possible”.

Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:

  • Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live.
  • Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving.
  • Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension.
  • Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge.
  • Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices.

    • Exhibitions open: “Design and the Elastic Mind”, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

    View Morph video (.mov, 46mb)
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    vivek