Mobile Services Showcased by Nokia and Symbian Developers at the 2003 Forum Nokia Media & Music Market
Last week in Paris, France more than 2 dozen Symbian developers showed off some exciting and compelling
new applications to carrier representatives and industry executives. (By Glenn Letham, Nov. 24, 2003)
The 60 second developer pitch!... continued
A highlight of the one-day event was the "60 second developer pitch". A great idea, designed to give
each developer an equal opportunity to sell his/her application or service. The objective was to make an interesting pitch
and stimulate enough interest that would result in one-on-one meetings and networking.
SymbianOne heard all the presentations and even met one-on-one with every developer to get a first-hand look
at the latest multi-media apps that are coming to market.
NewBay Software (Dublin, Ireland) was another developer that got my attention.
You may have read about the company’s mobile website development tool…
FoneBlog. Powered by a mobile device and designed to increase MMS usage,
users of FoneBlog can instantly post photographs, text, audio, and video to a
personal website, instantly viewable over the web or using a WAP enabled
mobile device. This is very cool… be sure to check out the online demo! One of
our favorite blogs was this one… Are you sick of the high prices in pubs? Why
not let everyone know the last time & place you paid crazy prices for a drink.
click here for blog - See
www.newbay.com & www.foneblog.ie
PAC LTd. (Finland) Creates music/audio software and entertainment solutions
for mobile devices. The company’s Rmxr solution is a service platform that
enables the creation of “DJ-style” custom poly ringtones. It allows the user to modify,
record and use/order the result as a new ringtone. The remixing functions offered include
looping, tempo and instrument changes, adding effects, rhythms, melodies and shuffle
See www.pac.fi
Plan_b_media, is a spin-off of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany.
They focus and specialize in developing media content for TV, web, and mobile
devices. Having loads of licensed content, the company offers MMS animations,
Java games and apps, Video, and interactive screen savers. See planb-media.de
& planb-mobile.com
Pulse (La Jolla, Calif) was at the event to promote their latest mobile solution,
mobile veepers. This amazing solution is a rapid, easy-to-use solution for
building photo-real virtual humans and other characters from a single 2D
image. An example showed us how a virtual Arnold Schwarzenegger was
used to provide a video message encouraging California voters to hit the
polls and even offered directions… very slick! See www.pulse3d.com
Rivals Digital Media AG provides live and editorial sports content to mobile
platforms. The very cool Java Football Match Center (www.football365.com)
provides subscribers with live feeds, updates, scores, and news about their
favorite football club. Football365 has 457,482 unique users per month
generating 6,239,053 page impressions. See www.rivalsdm.com
Sliding Pictures, an Italian mobile content provider, was demonstrating
Cellphonenovel – an interactive video novel for MMS enabled devices. For
marketing purposes, video novels can be branded and customized. See
www.slidingpictures.com
Soundonweb “a one-stop content factory” offers ringtones, javagames, cartoons,
videos, AV content, etc… for SMS and MMS enabled devices. The company
boasts more than 30,000 products are available. See www.soundonweb.com
TomTom is a developer of hardware and software, particularly for travel and/or
location-based applications. At the event the company was boasting about the
availability of their CityMaps for all Symbian 60 based mobile devices. These
navigational aids are available for some 60 major cities (Europe) and enable
users to track progress (in real time), plan journeys, and enter POI information.
TomTom CityMaps are available to download for US$ 4.99 each and have an average
size of 1 MB. See www.tomtom.com
Trimalkio / Wine Academy of Helsinki, experts in the wine and spirit business has
announced their MAtchart Wine application. The software is designed to enable
mobile users to select an appropriate wine to accompany virtually any meal.
Users select a detailed meal planner and upon completion are presented with
suitable options for an accompanying wine. See www.windeacademy.net
Viderent Inc. was excited to present us with details of the Message Puzzler, a
multi-media application that combines text messaging, images, puzzles, and
surprises to users. Suitable for mobile marketing, users can customize their
puzzle (think of a “slider” puzzle missing one piece) and are presented with a
custom message upon completion of the solution… very innovative! See
www.viderent.com
YellowPepper Inc. (Boston, Mass.) gets our award for coolest name! The company
offers numerous mobile marketing solutions and demographic mapping services.
Popular customers include Dow Jones (dow jones news alerts) and Forbes wireless
alerts. They also have a creative application designed to help mobile users identify a
song. Simply hear a song, dial their number, point your phone at the music source,
receive information about the song, including title and artist. See
www.yellowpepper.com
IMAGE GALLERY FROM PARIS - Glenn captured a number of images from the event.
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