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Social Networking, ready for Primetime?

Have you noticed all the news recently that promotes the efforts of those developers that are bringing social networking to the masses (via mobile)? Well, indeed we have and there's no doubt that the social networking category in the coming LBS Challenge (see CTIA Wireless 2008 in Vegas) will see some innovative social networking apps that will likely be made widely available to mobile users and more specifically, the Symbian OS. Case in point, just this past week, a clever facebook application (widget) enabling Nokia Sports Tracker users to share their tracks with their contacts via facebook... indeed its nice to see people taking advantage of Sports Tracker and extending it's functionality. Not to be outdone, great news for those of you that are LinkedIn... now the popular networking resource for professionals has a mobile client... nice! All you need to do to access the service from your device is to jump to m.linkedIn.com and indeed it functions just fine on the Nokia N95. So, what develop program and tools are developers using to mobilize their social networking and location-enabled apps? Well, one such program is from uLocate Communications - enter WHERE. According to the company, no less than 10 semi-finalists in the recent LBS Challenge used the WHERE Developer Program to turn creative ideas into mobile location based applications. Some of the clever apps built on the WHERE platform include AEN Mobile, providing Real time emergency information, and Trapster - Report and share speed-traps and hidden cameras - this one gets the best name award in my mind! I could go on about the latest mobile, social apps, all of them, now easily accessible via my handheld, including Flickr, Mosh, Blogger, facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and many more - these are exciting times for us social networking junkies!

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• The S60 Ambassador program is now open to all


• Quickoffice(r) Reveals Latest Office Suite for UIQ 3 Devices


• Nokia N82 in black - Postcards from the cutting-edge


• Oracle Announces New Mobile Interoperability With Nokia Devices


• VPN Client for Symbian


• One million visitors to Nokia Flagship Store in Shanghai


• UIQ Technology announces the winners of the UIQ application competition '08


• Get LinkedIn on your mobile thanks to a new mobile LinkedIn client


• Flyingbird Software Releases New Money Manager V.3.0 For UIQ Devices


• Games on Symbian OS A Handbook for Mobile Development Now Available


• Ozura Partners with Vinamob on Mobile Games Distribution in Vietnam


• Developer Tip - Mobile Jam Las Vegas - Save The Date

LBS News updates

• Save The Date - Webcast, How to build mobile GPS applications


• Location-Aware Social Networking Feature Enables Location Sharing from Laptops and Phones


• 10 of 15 Semi-finalists in 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - Americas Are Built on WHERE Platform


• LOCR and Skyhook Wireless To Jumpstart Geo-Tagging


• A Billion GPS Chips Expected to Ship in 2013, According to ABI Research

Interested in more LBS news and resources? Visit our friends at LBSzone.com

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ANNOUNCEMENTS for the Developer

• Forum Nokia 2008: Evolving the Mobile Revolution - Forum Nokia is getting a fresh new look in 2008 with significant changes coming to the Forum Nokia Web site and to the way Forum Nokia reaches out to developers. Richard Bloor spoke to the new head of Forum Nokia, Tom Libretto, about plans for 2008.


• Developers Take Note - the newly-released Faro Orange Partner Camp programme! - An event of interest once again from Orange Partner -- There will be constant camper workshops with access to new tools, where you can get into the details and find the answers, and there will be the social get-togethers for which Camp is so renowned!


• Tip - Nokia Sports Tracker (beta) for facebook users - A new facebook application enables users of Nokia Sports Tracker (Beta) to share their tracks with their friends via facebook.


• New And Improved Widsets - Have you noticed that Widsets has relaunched a new and improved service... this update came to our attention via the Widsets Blog


• 10 of 15 Semi-finalists in 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - Americas Are Built on WHERE Platform - uLocate Communications has announced that ten of the fifteen applications selected as semi-finalists in the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - Americas were built on WHERET. These semi-finalists used the WHERE Developer Program to turn creative ideas into mobile location based applications.

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• Lead / Architect Level ? Mobile Innovators - Hampshire to 60k - We are looking for 2 heavyweight mobile platform architects to join an exciting R and D division. We are very keen to hear from fantastic embedded C programmers who have always been high achievers, from academic or practical through to commercial. You should be currently within the embedded mobile space and have some exposure to mobile platforms such as Symbian, WinCE, Linux, Windows Mobile or other proprietary RTOS's.
• Symbian/UIQ Jobs@MNC (India - Mumbai) - Symbian Software Engineer/PL (Total Required 3) Design, architect and develop wireless applications for the Symbian platform. Work Experience: 2+ years must be in Symbian Required Skills:Developed applications on Symbian, UIQ Software development using C, C++, VC++ over the embedded systems' platforms.

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Symbian OS Software Applications for the Nokia E90

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• Handy Tools Pack for S60
• ProfiMail (Symbian)
• WorldMate Professional for Series 60
• Handy Weather for S60
• IM+ for Skype for Symbian S60 v.3

Orange Partner Camp
There is no other event like this in the industry - where you can meet with your peers and be face-to-face with a world-leading fixed line, broadband and mobile operator - for three days! There will be constant camper workshops with access to new tools, where you can get into the details and find the answers, and there will be the social get-togethers for which Camp is so renowned! 14 - 16 April 2008, Faro, Portugal

Mobile Jam Las Vegas
Here's a tip for an event of interest taking place in Vegas the day before CTIA begins (March 31) ... Mobile Jam Las Vegas. One important rule... not ties and no Power Points allowed!

Attendee Choice Awards at CES 2008
Three consumer LBS application developers will be chosen to showcase their solution in the Tele Atlas booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008, with live SMS voting on which applications the attendees like best.

The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - Europe
This global program challenges application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps.

Smartphone Summit 2008 - SMARTPHONE SUMMIT 2008 Presents 'Smartphone Solutions' Las Vegas Convention Center - Room N115, 3/31/2008 - In their keynote, Symbian's CEO, Nigel Clifford, and EVP Marketing, Jorgen Behrens, will outline where the smartphone market is heading and provide an overview of its future impact on the overall mobile industry.

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