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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BANGALORE, India – Forum Nokia have teamed up with the folks at USID for another USID Design Challenge, where participants will have the opportunity to create new applications for disabled people. The challenge is to design an aid or support system using common technologies such as mobile applications, devices and services. The idea is to make life easier for the 10 per cent of the global population who aren’t fully-abled by creating technologies that’ll empower or enable them.
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GLOBAL – In the true nature of Open Source, Forum Nokia is encouraging designers and developers to share their best design resources with the wider Nokia development community. To help oil the wheels they’ve got some top prizes up for grabs, and a whole heap of recognition. The Mobile Design Challenge will see three winners walk away with a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the overall winner also bagging a copy of Adobe CS4.
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MONACO, Monte Carlo – Continuing yesterday’s collection of videos from the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit, held last week in Monaco, where James Etheridge got to speak to some interesting industry folks involved in creating the software we all use. Forum Nokia has been increasing its role in software development over the past couple of years and Pekka Pohjakallio talks about what it means to developers, and why publishing software to Ovi Store is a good thing for all involved. He highlights having access to 50 million devices from launch, as being a pretty powerful incentive for developers to get involved.
James also caught up with Benoit Schillings and Thiago Macieira from Qt (pronounced ‘cute’) software about the platform that enables developers to create applications for multiple operating systems, without having to redevelop the software each time. We have the first video with these two today, but we’ll be back Monday with the second as these guys have some interesting stuff to reveal.
Finally, we have David Rivas VP Nokia who looks after software at Nokia. He reveals some interesting stuff, including Nokia’s background in software, why it’s important, what’s happening with Symbian and most interestingly his prediction that Symbian will soon support multiple processors. Enjoy the show(s) after the jump!
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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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GLOBAL – I stumbled across the Forum Nokia site as part of my routine virtual morning stroll, and was immediately struck by its spruced up appearance.
A few clicks later and it’s clear that this isn’t just a cosmetic makeover, as it’s innards have also gone under the knife and been entirely reconstructed to streamline the process of enabling application developers and publishers to create, publish and get support for their projects.
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ESPOO, Finland – Despite the broadening reach of the Wi-Fi cloud across cities, there remain large holes that need plugging, urban as well as rural. So with 3G and faster HSDPA networks plugging many of those holes, JoikuSoft lets us and our friends tap into this by transforming your 3G signal into a secure Wi-Fi hotspot.
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SAN MATEO, USA – Despite mobile TV being a perennial buzzword, it’s now taken to humming in the background while other tangible and more readily accessible services such as GPS location-based software hog the limelight. That said, regardless of the challenges live mobile television faces in establishing itself in many countries, alternative solutions are being championed. As is the case with Hava Mobile Player, created by Monsoon Multimedia – one of the developers cherry-picked for support as part of the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program.
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CALIFORNIA, USA – The brainchild of Advanced Wireless Solutions, Backup-Pal is one of the apps (well, it’s more of a gizmo really) to receive support from Nokia as a result of the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program. A palm-sized peripheral, it plugs straight into your handset, sucking up and securely storing all your contact details with a single push of a button.
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