Phil Northam: Samsung's Mobile InnovatorSamsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101
It was back in June 2008 that the E71 was officially released to the public - the selling points for the E71 were a sleek, stylish do-it-all device that came with Mail for Exchange mobile email client - pre-loaded with the Nokia E71. Actually, the device boasted much much more than these attributes as you'll see below in my findings after having the pleasure of making the E71 my main device for 3 weeks... enjoy the recap, the images and the videos!
Smaato News: Free RSS Reader now for Symbian S60 Smartphones
Written by Smaato Inc.
Sunday, 15 April 2007
First Ad-Enabled RSS-Newsreader supported by SOMA™ Mobile Advertising Platform
- Smaato News is the first Symbian application using the new SOMA™ mobile advertising
platform, which allows developers to show advertising within their applications.
San Mateo - Smaato Inc has announced the availability of it’s free RSS news
reader software Smaato News for Symbian S60 smartphones. Smaato News is the first
Symbian application using the new SOMA™ mobile advertising platform, which allows
developers to show advertising within their applications. The existing versions
for Palm OS and Windows Mobile have been updated. All versions can be downloaded
for free at http://www.smaato.com/now
Smaato News is an easy to use mobile RSS newsreader for smartphones. Mobile users
can subscribe to their favorite news feeds or blogs directly on their phones and
read them "off-line". Featured feeds include: CNN News, BBC News, digg technology,
Engadget and SymbianOne. The newly released Symbian version supports popular Symbian
S60 2nd Edition smartphones, including Nokia N70, N90 and the Nokia 66xx phones.
The integration of the recently announced SOMA™ (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising)
allows Smaato to give this commercial-grade software to the users for free. The
in-application advertising platform offers unique matchmaking between brands and
mobile consumers. With the addition of the Symbian mobile phones (e.g. from handset
manufacturers like Nokia) SOMA’s reach extends now to over 120 million new smartphones
out in the market today estimated by ABI Research - covering Windows Mobile, Palm
and Symbian mobile operating systems.
Mercedes, Microsoft and Allianz are among the first brands working with SOMA™
and distributing their targeted mobile advertising with the applications Smaato
Cost and Smaato News. SOMA supports recommended ad-formats by the MMA (the global
Mobile Marketing Association) that are contextually integrated into the mobile
user- experience.
“We feel that SOMA is a revolutionary solution for developers, end- users and
advertisers”, says Ragnar Kruse, CEO of Smaato Inc. “Today’s mobile life is moving
extremely fast. No one wants to spend hundreds of dollars for a set of applications,
which won’t run on the next device, someone buys just 6 months later. Selling
mobile software is extremely difficult for developers today. We help save their
marketing costs and free them from the very labor-intensive license handling.
The users get high quality software for free or for a substantially reduced price”.
SOMA’s patent-pending mobile advertising platform is initially focusing on in-application
advertising for mobile software. Smaato provides the key technologies of its mobile
advertising platform as an open interface for developers and content providers,
for marketing their mobile solutions by deploying the SOMA™ platform.
Smaato Inc. recently has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100
Private Company award winners. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private
digital media companies. Smaato was handpicked based on a set of five criteria
– innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value
creation.
Smaato Inc. is based in San Mateo, California. The company was founded in 2005
by an experienced international management team. The European headquarter is
in Hamburg, Germany. For more information please visit www.smaato.com. Smaato® is a registered trademark of
Smaato Inc.
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Samsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101 
It was back in 
I’ve been a long-time fan and user of Nokia Sports Tracker. In fact, I’ve considered it to be one of the best location-aware mobile apps anywhere… hands-down! Now it's even more fun, more useful, and easier to share with others... 
It was almost a year ago at 
First Ad-Enabled RSS-Newsreader supported by SOMA™ Mobile Advertising Platform
- Smaato News is the first Symbian application using the new SOMA™ mobile advertising
platform, which allows developers to show advertising within their applications.
