Nokia announces winners in Open C challenge developer contest
Grand Prize Winner MobiTubia, Runners Up LiveTraffic, MobiClass and ViewRight Awarded Cash Prizes, Developer and Business Support from Nokia
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the winners in the first "Open C Challenge," a global mobile application development contest encouraging open source and freeware developers to port innovative software applications with Nokia's Open C environment to the S60 mobile platform on Symbian OS, the world's leading smartphone platform with millions of devices in the marketplace today.
Sponsored by Nokia's global developer support program, Forum Nokia, in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge invited developer entrants to submit open source applications built for mobile or desktop environments and ported to S60 on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++ applications developed in the Open C environment.
Open C Challenge winners announced today culminate a four-month selection process and final judging by a select panel of software and mobile industry experts, including journalists, analysts and academic members of the Forum Nokia PRO Champions program, on criteria that emphasized the developer's innovation, creativity and degree of difficulty in the porting process, as well as the quality and usability of the applications themselves.
Nokia's recently announced Open C Plug-In lowers the barriers to entry and reduces the learning curve for developers porting an application's logic and core components to the S60 platform. Utilizing eight standard C function libraries, Open C enables developers to more easily migrate a broad range of open source and desktop applications to Symbian OS.
The Open C Challenge Grand Prize Winner announced today is Sittiphol Phanvilai from Bangkok, Thailand for his MobiTubia application, receiving a cash prize of $10,000. First Runner-Up Winner Pu Zhihua for his application LiveTraffic, Second Runner-Up TongRen for the MobiClass application and Third Runner-Up Steve DeLaney for ViewRight receive cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.
"The developers participating in the global Open C Challenge have shown remarkable creativity and innovation in the use of Nokia's Open C environment to develop applications for the leading smartphone platform in the market today," said Lee Epting, Vice President, Forum Nokia. "By providing a bridge by which existing mobile or desktop applications can easily move to S60, while easing development in native Symbian C++ for the S60 platform, the Open C environment helps developers address real business opportunities for high-value mobile applications in the rapidly expanding smartphone market worldwide."
The Open C Challenge Grand Prize and Runner-Up Winners named today include:
Grand Prize Winner
Developer: Sittiphol Phanvilai (Bangkok, Thailand) / Application: MobiTubia
MobiTubia is a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application with real-time decoding for the S60 platform, developed by Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkog, Thailand, a graduate student in the Master of Engineering program in Computers at Chulalongkorn University. MobiTubia enables mobile users to access flv clips using several different methods. Additionally, the application allows users to browse and search for specific content on YouTube. The developer ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS.
1st Runner-Up
Developer: Pu Zhihua (Shanghai, China) / Application: Live Traffic
Live Traffic is a traffic assistance software that provides real-time traffic volumes, developed by a project team of four developers, led by by Pu Zhihua of Shanghai, China. Live Traffic adopts FCD (Floating Car Data) technology to acquire road traffic information anywhere anytime, and publish mapped traffic information to Nokia phone users via GPRS or EDGE connections. The developers ported 2,500 lines of code via Open C.
2nd Runner-Up
Developer: TongRen (Shanghai, China) / Application: MobiClass
MobiClass is a virtual multi-media courseware application, developed by a team led by TongRen of Shanghai, China, a researcher in the E-Learning Lab at Shanghai Jiaotong University, porting 16,000 lines of code using Nokia's Open C Plug-In. MobiClass is designed to deliver an integrated learning experience with active notes and video playback. Courseware is downloaded to the device memory card for playback.
3rd Runner-Up
Developer: Steve DeLaney (Carlsbad, California) / Application: ViewRight
ViewRight is a streaming mobile video application developed by Steve DeLaney, CEO of SDC Labs in Carlsbad California, with more than 20 years of application development experience. Verimatrix, a market leading CA/DRM supplier, contracted with SDC Labs to develop the ViewRight application, which enables users to watch television from their mobile devices. The application includes mobile video wireless download UI, proxy streaming, client and crypto middleware for Symbian 3G DVB-H H.264 platforms. The developer ported some 5,000 lines of existing Posix code and implemented new Posix for integrating mobile platform streaming support.
In addition to the cash prizes, all of the winners receive a free year's membership in the Forum Nokia PRO developer program, free Symbian Signing for their winning application and additional Nokia marketing and business support.
Open C delivers to developers significant portions of three open source projects - OpenSSL, GNOME, and LIBZ - providing the S60 and Symbian developer communities access to middleware functionality that is shared by many important open source projects, including Apache and Firefox. Nokia's Open C Plug-In enables deployment of Open C projects on existing S60 3rd Edition devices, millions of which have already been shipped into the global marketplace.
More information about Nokia's Open C can be found online at: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/open_c/
About S60
S60 platform built on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone software, and is licensed by some of the industry's foremost mobile device manufacturers. The flexibility of the S60 software allows for various hardware designs and software configurations, as evidenced by the multitude of S60 devices already available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation potential for partner solutions, S60 provides an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party developers. For further information and news about S60 and the S60 community, please visit www.s60.com.
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q1 2007, 15.9 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 31 March 2007 to 126 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, England, and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit: www.symbian.com.
About Symbian Developer Network
The Symbian Developer Network (http://developer.symbian.com) is the first port of call for all developers working with Symbian OS. The developer can find downloads, technical papers, system documentation as well as more interactive elements such as the Symbian Developer Network Forums, Wiki, and access to the Symbian Signed portal. Developers can also join the 50,000 developers who currently receive the Symbian Community Newsletter by subscribing online.
About Orange
Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 167 million customers in five continents as of September 30, 2007, of which two thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 51.7 billion euros in 2006 and 39.4 billion euros for the first nine months of 2007. At September 30, 2007 the group had 106.9 million mobile customers and 11.4 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers.
Launched in June 2005, the NExT program (New Experience in Telecommunications) will enable the Group to pursue its transformation as an integrated operator and make France Telecom the benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. In 2006, Orange became the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates, and Orange Business Services the banner for services offered to businesses worldwide. France Telecom is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband internet services in Europe and one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris and on the New York Stock Exchange.
For more information : www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com, www.orange-business.com
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.
About Orange Partner
Orange Partner is a global partner and developer program from Orange and the France Telecom Group. The programme provides developers with online training, a research database, tools, testing processes, application programming interfaces and peer-to-peer contact via the Orange Partner website: www.developers.orange.com. It also provides access to Orange global development centres and a whole range of other support services to members of the programme.
About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
Media Enquiries:
Nokia
Communications - Global Developer Program
James Waterworth
Tel. +358 50 486 9472
Email: press.office@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the winners in the first "Open C Challenge," a global mobile application development contest encouraging open source and freeware developers to port innovative software applications with Nokia's Open C environment to the S60 mobile platform on Symbian OS, the world's leading smartphone platform with millions of devices in the marketplace today.
Sponsored by Nokia's global developer support program, Forum Nokia, in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge invited developer entrants to submit open source applications built for mobile or desktop environments and ported to S60 on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++ applications developed in the Open C environment.
Open C Challenge winners announced today culminate a four-month selection process and final judging by a select panel of software and mobile industry experts, including journalists, analysts and academic members of the Forum Nokia PRO Champions program, on criteria that emphasized the developer's innovation, creativity and degree of difficulty in the porting process, as well as the quality and usability of the applications themselves.
Nokia's recently announced Open C Plug-In lowers the barriers to entry and reduces the learning curve for developers porting an application's logic and core components to the S60 platform. Utilizing eight standard C function libraries, Open C enables developers to more easily migrate a broad range of open source and desktop applications to Symbian OS.
The Open C Challenge Grand Prize Winner announced today is Sittiphol Phanvilai from Bangkok, Thailand for his MobiTubia application, receiving a cash prize of $10,000. First Runner-Up Winner Pu Zhihua for his application LiveTraffic, Second Runner-Up TongRen for the MobiClass application and Third Runner-Up Steve DeLaney for ViewRight receive cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.
"The developers participating in the global Open C Challenge have shown remarkable creativity and innovation in the use of Nokia's Open C environment to develop applications for the leading smartphone platform in the market today," said Lee Epting, Vice President, Forum Nokia. "By providing a bridge by which existing mobile or desktop applications can easily move to S60, while easing development in native Symbian C++ for the S60 platform, the Open C environment helps developers address real business opportunities for high-value mobile applications in the rapidly expanding smartphone market worldwide."
The Open C Challenge Grand Prize and Runner-Up Winners named today include:
Grand Prize Winner
Developer: Sittiphol Phanvilai (Bangkok, Thailand) / Application: MobiTubia
MobiTubia is a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application with real-time decoding for the S60 platform, developed by Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkog, Thailand, a graduate student in the Master of Engineering program in Computers at Chulalongkorn University. MobiTubia enables mobile users to access flv clips using several different methods. Additionally, the application allows users to browse and search for specific content on YouTube. The developer ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS.
1st Runner-Up
Developer: Pu Zhihua (Shanghai, China) / Application: Live Traffic
Live Traffic is a traffic assistance software that provides real-time traffic volumes, developed by a project team of four developers, led by by Pu Zhihua of Shanghai, China. Live Traffic adopts FCD (Floating Car Data) technology to acquire road traffic information anywhere anytime, and publish mapped traffic information to Nokia phone users via GPRS or EDGE connections. The developers ported 2,500 lines of code via Open C.
2nd Runner-Up
Developer: TongRen (Shanghai, China) / Application: MobiClass
MobiClass is a virtual multi-media courseware application, developed by a team led by TongRen of Shanghai, China, a researcher in the E-Learning Lab at Shanghai Jiaotong University, porting 16,000 lines of code using Nokia's Open C Plug-In. MobiClass is designed to deliver an integrated learning experience with active notes and video playback. Courseware is downloaded to the device memory card for playback.
3rd Runner-Up
Developer: Steve DeLaney (Carlsbad, California) / Application: ViewRight
ViewRight is a streaming mobile video application developed by Steve DeLaney, CEO of SDC Labs in Carlsbad California, with more than 20 years of application development experience. Verimatrix, a market leading CA/DRM supplier, contracted with SDC Labs to develop the ViewRight application, which enables users to watch television from their mobile devices. The application includes mobile video wireless download UI, proxy streaming, client and crypto middleware for Symbian 3G DVB-H H.264 platforms. The developer ported some 5,000 lines of existing Posix code and implemented new Posix for integrating mobile platform streaming support.
In addition to the cash prizes, all of the winners receive a free year's membership in the Forum Nokia PRO developer program, free Symbian Signing for their winning application and additional Nokia marketing and business support.
Open C delivers to developers significant portions of three open source projects - OpenSSL, GNOME, and LIBZ - providing the S60 and Symbian developer communities access to middleware functionality that is shared by many important open source projects, including Apache and Firefox. Nokia's Open C Plug-In enables deployment of Open C projects on existing S60 3rd Edition devices, millions of which have already been shipped into the global marketplace.
More information about Nokia's Open C can be found online at: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/open_c/
About S60
S60 platform built on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone software, and is licensed by some of the industry's foremost mobile device manufacturers. The flexibility of the S60 software allows for various hardware designs and software configurations, as evidenced by the multitude of S60 devices already available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation potential for partner solutions, S60 provides an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party developers. For further information and news about S60 and the S60 community, please visit www.s60.com.
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q1 2007, 15.9 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 31 March 2007 to 126 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, England, and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit: www.symbian.com.
About Symbian Developer Network
The Symbian Developer Network (http://developer.symbian.com) is the first port of call for all developers working with Symbian OS. The developer can find downloads, technical papers, system documentation as well as more interactive elements such as the Symbian Developer Network Forums, Wiki, and access to the Symbian Signed portal. Developers can also join the 50,000 developers who currently receive the Symbian Community Newsletter by subscribing online.
About Orange
Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 167 million customers in five continents as of September 30, 2007, of which two thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 51.7 billion euros in 2006 and 39.4 billion euros for the first nine months of 2007. At September 30, 2007 the group had 106.9 million mobile customers and 11.4 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers.
Launched in June 2005, the NExT program (New Experience in Telecommunications) will enable the Group to pursue its transformation as an integrated operator and make France Telecom the benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. In 2006, Orange became the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates, and Orange Business Services the banner for services offered to businesses worldwide. France Telecom is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband internet services in Europe and one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris and on the New York Stock Exchange.
For more information : www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com, www.orange-business.com
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.
About Orange Partner
Orange Partner is a global partner and developer program from Orange and the France Telecom Group. The programme provides developers with online training, a research database, tools, testing processes, application programming interfaces and peer-to-peer contact via the Orange Partner website: www.developers.orange.com. It also provides access to Orange global development centres and a whole range of other support services to members of the programme.
About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
Media Enquiries:
Nokia
Communications - Global Developer Program
James Waterworth
Tel. +358 50 486 9472
Email: press.office@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
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