Intuit / Xtify Application Contest for Location Aware Apps

Intuit has announced a competition to build and publish a location-aware business application on the Intuit Workplace using the Intuit Partner Platform Flex SDK AND the Xtify Flex API.

Details are as follows:

Prize:
Grand Prize - $7,000
1st Place - $4,000
2nd Place - $1,500

Judging Criteria:
Grand Prize:
The application that receives the most unique location-enabled Intuit Workplace users
by the end contest: 8/05/09

1st & 2nd Place (determined by the judging panel):
- 50 points: Application’s ability to solve a business problem by being location-aware
- 50 points: Ease of use and delight for customers

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Symbian Partner Event, San Francisco, 4th Dec

With Symbian OS going open source the Symbian Partner Events also seems to follow the path and have opened up the event to a wider group of attendees - such as mobile developers, journalists, the open source community, and representatives of companies that may be considering partnering with Symbian.

Anyone interested in attending should register their interest as soon as possible via the event website.

The Highlights of the event are

• Keynote presentations from a leading member of the open source community, senior representatives from network operators and phone manufacturers, Symbian executives, and the management of the Symbian Foundation;
• "Fast Forward" technology seminars
• An open roundtable discussion on "Succeeding in the US: the key factors"
• "Symbian Foundation Platform Architecture Overview"
• "Symbian Foundation Q&A".

via [David Wood]

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Forum Nokia is Calling All Innovators

A new competition for innovators has been announced by Forum Nokia

Here is the chance to showcase and distribute your most innovative ideas to the largest audience of mobile device owners around the world. Winning developers will:

* Showcase their applications at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain
* Participate in "meet and greets" with Industry leaders, VC's, Mobile Operators and distributors
* Win CASH up to $25,000 (USD).

The Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Competition is open to all mobile application developers, and features three distinct categories for submissions:

* Eco-Challenge: Make a Difference
* Emerging Markets: IMAGINE the Possibilities
* Technology Showcase: The Developer Showdown

You may want to sign up here.
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MoMo Monsoon Event in Bangalore On August 30, 2008

Mobile Monday Bangalore is organizing its August event as a daylong program on Saturday, the 30^th of August, 2008 between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore’ (IIMB) Main Auditorium, Bannerughatta Road, Bangalore.

Christened as “MoMo Monsoon” this event aims to create a splash pool of issues, ideas, challenges and opportunities in order to evoke interest and excitement of all stakeholders in the Mobile VAS ecosystem.

Mobile Monday is a global community of wireless industry professionals with more than 70 chapters worldwide. The open community promotes the wireless industry. It fosters cooperation and networking among interest groups, industry and their companies by providing the logistics and opportunities for personal and virtual contacts. It is an open forum.

The Bangalore chapter of Mobile Monday started its activities in June 2006 and is the first Mobile Monday chapter in India.

Mobile Monday Bangalore popularly known as MoMo Bangalore, is registered as a not for profit organization (Trust). There are more than 700 registered members on its mailing list.

Being an open community organization, Mobile Monday Bangalore relies on forward looking companies to support it’s operations. OnMobile Global Limited and Forum Nokia are the annual sponsors of Mobile Monday Bangalore.

The daylong event is planned with 3 keynote speeches and 4 panel discussions, with industry leaders and veterans from OnMobile Global Limited, Forum Nokia, Google, July Systems, Yahoo!, Helion Ventures and Sasken Communication Technologies Limited amongst others, participating in discussions on Micro Finance & Mobile Payments, Mobile Marketing & Mobile Advertising, Telecom Platform Opportunities and Mobile Web.

The spirit of MoMo isn’t complete without the representation from it’s community of young and innovative companies along with it’s entrepreneurs! MoMo Monsoon also brings along the dynamic participation from mCHEK, EKO Financials, Mobisy, Classifeye, Ekgaon, RangDe.org, AdMob, mKHOJ, TeliBrahma, MyDunia Networks, TringMe, Tonse Telecom to name a few.

This is a free of charge event but prior registration (first come first served basis) is mandatory. More than 300 people are expected to attend this MoMo event.

Please refer to our web site http://www.momobangalore.org/momomonsoon for further details.

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Exciting offer to Win an N96

Well as we all know N96 was officially launched in India a just before the iPhone launch and every since that everyone is excited to get hands on this device. Here is an exiting offer or all those developers.

Win an N96 or other great prizes for contributing articles or code examples about WidSets in the month of September. for full information see the Rules of Participation

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Series 40 and WRT Code Camps in India

Forum Nokia India is again organizing code camps below is the details given. In Mumbai it is on 27th August, 2008 and in Bangalore it is on 29th August, 2008. Working days so dont know if many interested would be able to attend it or not. However, here are more details.

Join the Forum Nokia Code Camp and start creating mobile applications to get recognized by millions!

Forum Nokia Code Camps are specially organized for developers and now we have it in India!.

During the camp, you'll benefit from how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself.

REGISTER NOW FOR THE CODE CAMP IN YOUR CITY.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

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