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).
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
……………………………………. Place: BANGALORE, INDIA Date: 9th APRIL Fee: INR 2,000
I will be there, hope to see creative people around, catch me
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.
Very intresting concept, imagine answering your mobile phone by pressing an area of your skin, its not a sci-fi movie scene but one of the entries in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition.
The Digital Tattoo Interface works via a Bluetooth device implanted underneath your skin. Don’t worry, you won’t have anything bulging out like a weird growth – the chip is flat, flexible and made of silicone. It lies between your skin and muscle tissue.
Intrestingly this device electricity powers up by bilogical components of the body “convert’s the blood’s glucose and oxygen from the artery as electricity required”.
This device communicates wirelessly with the world as well as with other devices implanted in the same body. It is always present, always on, but out of sight and non-obtrusive. It also continually monitors for many blood disorders, alerting the person of a health problem: A human version of the check engine light. Product styling is the latest and coolest downloaded display interface showing on any tattoo on the block. This product is waterproof too!!.
I found an intresting post via Electronic Frontier Foundation that “Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software. Instead of an ordinary web download, these programs can use a proprietary, secret Adobe protocol to talk to each other, encrypting the communication and locking out non-Adobe software players and video tools. We imagine that Adobe has no illusions that this will stop copyright infringement — any more than dozens of other DRM systems have done so — but the introduction of encryption does give Adobe and its customers a powerful new legal weapon against competitors and ordinary users through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).”
Intresting !!
Faisal posted his first Flash Lite tips’n tricks in Nokia forum about how effectively one can use using gotoAndPlay & gotoAndStop as Flash Lite 1.1 supports pre-AS1 Flash 4 scripting syntax, the developer have to use tellTarget statement to access objects from deferent object.
This trick is quite useful when you have to do a quick goto action, but if you need to perform multiple actions, then you’re good to go with tellTarget.
On2 Technologies announced that it has licensed its optimized TrueMotion(R) VP6(TM) video decoder software to Sony for use in its mylo communicator “COM-2″ device.
The COM-2 uses On2’s TrueMotion VP6 decoder with Adobe(R) Flash(R) Lite 3 software, and provides access to videos posted on Flash-based web sites. When connected to a wi-fi hotspot, the mylo communicator can also upload and download content to and from the Web using the touch screen interface on its 3.5-inch high-resolution display. By integrating an optimized version of On2’s VP6 decoder, the mylo communicator users have the ability to enjoy web based video content, while on-the-go.
“We continue to improve the quality of our video solutions for leading handheld device manufacturers, and the mylo communicator is one of the best examples of mobile video products on the market today,” said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies. “Most of the leading user-generated content web sites today use our Flix Engine product and VP6 compression scheme to create and publish video, and we see the market trends moving toward mobile video sharing and consumption.”
I think trend to see video on mobile is going to be a big hit in current year.
I just got this email about Adobe Idea Share event which is going to happen in Bangalore, India
Honestly as from email its not clear what this event is all about. But it has 2 different sessions as below.
Abobe Creative Suite 3 - Design Premium Session (9:30 AM onwards)
Abobe Creative Suite 3 - Web Premium Session (3:00 PM onwards) Date: 26th Feb, 2008 Place: Chancery Pavilion, No. 135, Residency Road, Bangalore, India
Registeration :Send your Name, Mobile Number, Company, Designation, Official E-mail Id clearly mentioning the session you want to attend (Design Premium or Web Premium) to adobe@endtoend.in or fax your details to 080-25213656
You can also call at 080-25219656
I will be there, buzz me lets have a meet and to know what this event is all about?
The winners for 2008 in different categories are: Best Mobile Game
- Cellufun: Call of the Pharaoh, Glu Mobile: My Hangman Best Mobile Music Service
- Omnifone: MusicStation Best Mobile Video Service
- mywaves: mywaves Best Mobile Social Networking Service
- BuzzCity: myGamma.com Best Mobile Infotainment Portal for News/entertainment
- Yahoo! Connected Life: Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
- Microsoft: Windows Mobile 6 Best Mobile Messaging Service
- Seven: System Seven 7.0 The GSMA Chairman’s Award
- Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman & Group CEO Bharti Enterprise Best Mobile Handset or Device
- SonyEricsson: W910 Walkman Phone, 3UK: 3 Skypephone - Highly Commended Best Broadcast Commercial
- Safaricom: M-PESA ‘Send Money Home’ campaign Best Mobile Advertising
- Crossmedia Avenue: AMF Pension – the MMS campaign Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development
- Grameenphone: CellBazaar Best Network Quality Initiative
- RAD Data Communications: LA-130 Cell Gateway - Cost-Effective HSPA Backhaul Best Service Delivery Platform
- Aepona: Aepona Telecom Web Services Platform Best Billing and Customer Solution
- Bharti Airtel: mChek on Airtel – Mobile Payments Service Best Roaming Product or Service
- Syniverse Technologies: Syniverse Datanet
Found another video which showcase 01Design Flash Lite MTV Application straight from Mobile World Congress 2008. Have a look to this. It’s very intresting and design very creatively.
Love to see this in my Mobile phone.
Get inspiredAdobe released Winter Edition of proxy magazine.
“Design is a vision, a person’s interpretation of the world, their everyday life, and how they absorb. It is a unique art form that journeys from vastness to fruition and at times, back to vastness. In this issue, Gerwin Schmidt, our guest designer, challenges us to remember this and keep our eyes, minds, and hearts open. And challenge design ideas in order to inspire others to reexamine their own perspectives on art and life.”
IMGA announced winners of 2007 International gaming awards, this year the IMGAs bring in over 400 developers from 42 countries to compete for $40, 000 worth of prizes in five categories. And event took place in the crowded GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and featured judges from Japan, Europe and the US — including Modojo’s own Justin Bailey; their job, to scrutinize 25 nominated games from the US China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India, UK, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Australia.
Here are the Winners for the 2007 edition of the awards:
Best Casual Game - Treasure Arm by Tequila Mobile
Best IP-based licensed - Furby Island by LemonQuest
Best 3D - One by Digital Legends
Best Gameplay - Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol by Jadestone
Operators Choice - Metal Gear Solid Mobile by Ideaworks3D
Public Choice Award - WRC 3D by Firemint
Adobe unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new client/server streaming media delivery platform with a new mobile profile built to Adobe’s server backend is designed to enable personalize-able user interfaces (UIs) that can be branded by operators and delivered over the air to subscriber phones.
The new mobile profile client software empowers mobile operators to monetize the UI “in the way that ringtones and wall papers are monetized,” says Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing for Adobe’s mobile and devices unit. “You can make the entire UI brandable and we think there is a revenue opportunity there. For operators, we also can elevate key data services to the top of the UI, so you don’t force users to drill down to discover hot new services.”
It’s intresting that people are talking more about mobile experiences and “The evolution of mobile has changed with the iPhone” how it can be improve more or give a another great user experiences to mobile users. Intresting!
Just Found this another news from PRNewswire that Netbiscuits is the first mobile software development platform to support Adobe Flash and AJAX technologies for developers to create the next-generation Mobile Internet experience. Now, media, content and advertising professionals have a full solution to deliver high-quality, tailored Web experiences that incorporate mobile advertising and shopping on virtually any mobile device.
The integration of Adobe Flash and AJAX expands the unique Biscuits concept inherent to the Netbiscuits platform, giving developers the toolkit needed to create a wide range of Mobile Internet applications including mobile advertising landing pages, content shops, audio and video downloads and more. The resulting high-end user interfaces, convenient rich media integration and visual effects virtually guarantee a more satisfying and productive consumer experience on the mobile Web.
“Netbiscuits is committed to improving the development of high quality mobile Web sites that achieve a faster path to profit from mobile Internet programs,” said Michael Neidhoefer, CEO of Dynetic Solutions, the company behind Netbiscuits. “By delivering Flash embedded in browser-based mobile applications, Netbiscuits has taken another critical step in building a mobile Web that is as rich and accessible as the PC-based Internet experience.”
The other intresting things which i found about this company is the platform integrates Bango’s mobile payment system for worldwide mobile billing and combines it with a new “Content-Shop-Biscuit.” so sailing of ringtones, wallpapers, videos can be done easily.
