STUTTGART, Germany – On the eve of Nokia World 09 the winners of the Calling All Innovators developer competition were announced. Three winners were revealed for the three main categories covering Internet Innovation, Flash and Emerging Markets (Apps on Maps winners will be announced later in the week). Over 1,700 submissions were made for Calling All Innovators from developers representing 85 countries. But that’s hardly a surprise, given the $250,000 prize purse on offer.
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GLOBAL – Last night we brought news of the new Ovi Maps Player API and with it a brief intro to the latest Forum Nokia Developer competition: Calling All Innovators – Apps on Maps. With the new Ovi Maps Player API Ovi Maps has been opened up to third parties to add location aware services and content to Ovi Maps. What’s more, Ovi Maps can now be easily embedded in other websites or web applications, all using familiar technology such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. Oh, and there’s the small matter of $30,000 too. That’s the prize fund up for grabs for the best Apps on Maps solution. Continue reading>>
MONACO, Monte Carlo – Creating a world-class widget is tough at the best of times, never mind trying to develop a brilliant bite-size app against the clock within a 24-hour timeframe. But that’s exactly what happened last month at the Calling All Innovators Hackathon, which saw 10 small teams of developers go head-to-head and test their skills to the limit to create a winning app. Each team was tasked with building a different widget based on 10 original ideas created by consumers.
The results were fantastic, and the 24-hour event has been compressed into a great little 3-minute video diary that features bleary-eyed developers coding like crazy (and occasionally snoring very loudly) to create a winning service. It’s definitely worth a watch, so click through to watch the Hackathon video diary.
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GLOBAL – We wrote in December about the addition of S60 support to Aptana Studio, the open source Ajax and Web development suite. With 3 million downloads so far, Aptana is one of the best app suites to develop mobile applications in, and the addition of support for Nokia Web Runtime (the plugin is available now) means the path to getting apps onto Nokia devices suddenly got a lot easier. Add to this the new Ovi Store and the next phase of the Calling All Innovators competition, and things are looking very rosy indeed for mobile app development.
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BARCELONA, Spain – Forum Nokia’s Calling all Innovators developer competition came to a conclusion yesterday with the winning developers and their applications announced at Mobile World Congress. Almost 1,000 developers from 57 countries entered the competition, before nine finalists were selected to take part in the final. $40,000 in cash awards were up for grabs in each of the three categories – ECO-challenge, Emerging Markets and Technology Showcase.
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GLOBAL – Unlike the previous finalists, the technology showcase Calling all Innovators finalists have created applications that aren’t specific to a region, but instead should have global appeal. It takes a lot for me to be impressed with new technology, and whilst I found the other apps interesting and indeed impressive, the four technology showcase apps really push the boundaries.
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GLOBAL – In the second in our series of three spotlights on the finalists for the Calling All Innovators developer competition, we’re taking a look the Emerging Markets Challenge, with finalists from EMEA, the Americas and APAC. One thing I always fascinating about emerging markets apps is the way technology is adapted (and adopted) to meet very specific local challenges. The first of our finalists comes from EMEA. Fake medication is a serious problem in some countries and mPedigree has used mobile tech to come up with what it thinks might be the answer.
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GLOBAL – As we promised last week, we’re taking a peek at the 11 finalists in the Forum Nokia CallingAllInnovators competition, ahead of the final results being announced at Mobile World Congress on the 17th. First up we have the finalists from the ECO-Challenge category. With the simple strapline “Make a difference”, giving ECO its own category highlights the importance of improving our ecological lot. The four finalists took dramatically different approaches to the Making a Difference challenge. Read on to find out what they were.
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GLOBAL – Eleven finalists have been chosen to go forward to the finals of Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators global developer competition. Three categories, ECO-challenge, Emerging markets challenge and Technology Showcase, attracted almost 1,000 developers from across EMEA, Americas, APAC and China. The final winners will be announced on the 17 February during Mobile World Congress 2009.
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