Born to be Wireless

Add-to-Phone works on any carrier in 100 countries and can be used on any WAP-enabled phone. Nothing has to be preinstalled on the handset. A site visitor only has to enter a mobile phone number and a SMS message is sent with a link to the content or news feed, which is formatted and rendered on-the-fly to fit the user’s specific device.

A so called locker is provided by Add-to-Phone. This allows users to organize all the sites and content clicked on and is accessible both on the web and on mobile phones.

Website publishers have two options to integrate Add-to-Phone on their website:
1- “Widget mode”: copy and paste the button code within their HTML editor
2- “API mode”: use the API to create their own tools using the “add to phone” functionality. For example, Cellfish.com is the first to offer a player with a built-in “add to phone” option.

Additionally, Cellfish recently released the “Add to Phone” application for Facebook, which includes an album navigator that allows users to download or share their profile pictures and their friends’ albums onto cell phones.

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Cellfish Video Highlighting Add-to-Phone

http://mobilecrunch.com/

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Brazilian operators Telemig and Amazonia have launched ad-funded idle screen content services.

The regional sister operators (recently acquired by Vivo) have adopted UK-based Celltick's so-called Live Screen 'idle screen' technology, through which they can broadcast targeted content and advertising.

Called Se Liga, the service has attracted commercial partners in the form of Fiat and Unimed, and will offer a mix of news, lifestyle articles, sports results, ringtones and games.

It will initially be available to 100,000 Telemig/Amazonia customers, with Celltick managing editorial content, programming and advertising.

Celltick CEO Stephen Dunford said: "Mobile marketing is already a reality in Europe and Asia. As a new media, Se Liga will show its potential for the South American market, delivering it a compelling marketing platform for tier one advertisers."

source: http://www.mobile-ent.biz/

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New APIs available:

• Nokia IAPInfo API
  
• Device dedicated Media keys (Play/Pause/Stop) access as normal key events
  
• Control over End call key (Red call key) behavior for application's lifecycle
  
• Enabling device theme background for Canvases for custom component usage
  
• Prevention of screen saver via Nokia UI API
  
• Foreground/background events via pauseApp/startApp
  
• Flip close event for fold/clamshell devices via pauseApp
  
• Access to device IMEI, network access type (gprs / csd etc.), network id, network signal level, battery level, country code, date and time formats via system properties
  
• LCDUI Canvas Graphics scaling (introduced originally in 3rd ed) enhanced for orientation switching devices
  

IAPInfo API allows to access device's Internet Access Points configuration and allows to specific explicitly for General Connection Framework network connections (http etc.) which IAP should be used. (this is great!!!)

New other functionality:

• Java application startup time is better due to OS on-demand paging and other changes (and as a result you also have more user RAM available).
  
• Support for scalable icons (SVG) for MIDlets
  
• Support for categorization of MIDlets: game / application
  
• Device volume keys will change audio output volume of MMAPI
  
• Selection key has a label (as a result LCDUI Commands are more aligned with Series 40 Java)

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Read more about Jarpa.

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The new studio will be headed up by Katherine Anna Kang, the former director of business development at Id Software.

"We are operating on the assumption that mobile gaming has a potential for huge growth," says id co-founder John Carmack for USA Today. "It's at a tipping point. Everybody has a phone, and almost every phone is powerful enough to do good games on it."

source: http://mobilegames.blogs.com

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How It Works

The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:

• Android Developer Challenge I: We will accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008
• Android Developer Challenge II: This part will launch after the first handsets built on the platform become available in the second half of 2008

In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.

Build Your Favorite Mobile Application

Here are some suggested areas of focus to get you started:

• Social networking
• Media consumption, management, editing, or sharing, e.g., photos
• Productivity and collaboration such as email, IM, calendar, etc.
• Gaming
• News and information
• Rethinking of traditional user interfaces
• Use of mash-up functionality
• Use of location-based services
• Humanitarian benefits
• Applications in service of global economic development
• Whatever you're excited about!

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