Chinese content "Golden Olive Awards" open for nominations

The 3rd China Mobile Application Golden Olive Awards showcase China's mobile content industry and recognize the technical innovations of Chinese mobile developers and content creators. The Golden Olive Awards run from April 1 to June 26, 2008 and nominations can now be submitted on the competition's official website www.goldenoliveaward.cn

Sony Ericsson Developer World is sponsoring 16 of the award categories, in what translates from Chinese as the "Sony Ericsson Cup", including mobile music, imaging, games, themes, flash and mobile Internet.

"By sponsoring these awards, we place great emphasis on China's wireless content and application development, and show our respect for China's content developers. At the same time, we hope that, through the award nominations, we will see more new, innovative and interesting content and applications become available for Sony Ericsson's mobile phones in China," said James Liu, Manager of Sony Ericsson Developer World China.

Judges and public voting
In addition to being where applications and content can be submitted for the awards, the website also displays the nominations and the public can vote for their favorites. The judging committee consists of 100 industry professionals from Sony Ericsson, operators, industry analysts, investment institutions, entertainment companies, publishers and media organizations. They will comprehensively evaluate the nominations from the utility, entertainment and innovation perspectives and consider the results of the public vote when selecting the winners.

Sony Ericsson prizes
The competition will run for two months and the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 26, 2008 in Beijing, China. The Sony Ericsson Cup winners will have the opportunity to have their content pre-loaded on selected Sony Ericsson mobile phone models and made available for download through Sony Ericsson's online content channels PlayNow, Fun & Downloads and the Application Shop. The developers of the winning content will also be invited to become Premier members of Sony Ericsson Developer World.

Chinese-language developer resources
Sony Ericsson Developer World in China was launched in May, 2007 providing dedicated services and support in the Chinese language which includes a web section with moderated discussion forums and documents and tools for download here>>