Mobile Design Challenge 2008

Design a Mobile Application to Empower the Farming Community of India!

Design an easy to use mobile application (Concept & the UI) that can help in the agriculture productivity and socio economic development of the rural population.

Design should take into consideration NOKIA S 40 series phone such as N6300.

PRIZES

Prizes as per the following will be awarded to the best three entries:

• 1st Prize: Rs. 40,000/-*
• 2nd Prize: Rs. 25,000/-*
• 3rd Prize: Rs. 15,000/-*

ELIGIBILITY

Students and Professionals from India

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration: July 31st, 2008

Submission: August 17th, 2008

For registration send email to usid_designchallenge@usidfoundation.org with your name and institution/organization.

Full details at:

http://www.usidfoundation.org/usid2008/designchallenge/

Hello! July is cellphone etiquette month

Hello!!
July month is celebrated as cellphone etiqutte months.

So what are cellphone etiquettes.. don't you know?

Check out following links

Phone-etiquette blog Yeah there is dedicated blog for phone etiquettes :O

IBN-Live

Pre-Leap

N78 Fusions Challenge

If you are a shutter bug, a techie, an explorer, a wanderer, a sports enthusiast, an adventure lover or simply someone who loves to share discoveries as you travel…then you need to be a part of Nokia Nseries Fusions Challenge!

The Fusions Challenge is your chance to lead a team of your friends and rediscover your passions with them. So sign up, register your team, play the Fusions Game and get as many people to become your teams fans to be selected for the Fusions Challenge. You can visit www.nokia.co.in/fusion to register your team. The last day for registrations is July 27, 2008.

Fore more details visit official blog.

MS on Symbian Foundation!

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For the most part, analysts have given their thumbs up on the news of the creation of the Symbian Foundation, seeing it as a positive for both Nokia and the industry, and a competitive threat to Android, LiMo and Microsoft

The analysts at Strategy Analytics, for example, expected this development to lead to less platform fragmentation across the industry, with Symbian becoming a global standardized operating system with a unified user-interface. This will lead to reduced development times for vendors, lower handset prices, more and speedier innovation, and an expanded global smartphone market.

Funny to hear that Microsoft is warning the public that an open-source model will lead to fragmentation for Symbian. "They're opening themselves up to some of the same challenges of all open source projects," said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager for Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business. The Microsoft executive points to the various splintered Linux versions and groups that exist.

But hey, could this just be taken as good free advice from Microsoft? The Linux Foundation can help prevent this from happening from the get go.