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Vodafone UK Developer Day:

On Wednesday March 3rd in Sheffield, Vodafone in partnership with Screen Yorkshire will host an afternoon and evening event, providing commercial and technical education, guidelines, Q&A and expert panel sessions around the Vodafone 360 mobile apps platform.

Get your Free Tickets now.

Great events

Do you know about other great events in the mobile space going on anywhere in the world? Then drop us a note and we will get it on the calendar to share with other Betavine members.

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Vodafone Greece Dev Camp 11th Sept

I was recently invited to present at the Vodafone devcamp event in Athens which was a part of the Vodafone Summer Of Widgets campaign we are running (#vfsow).

A fantastic venue with great weather made for the perfect start to a devcamp!
With an audience pushing 80+ the event kicked off soon after 11am with a local speaker talking about the Vodafone strategy for widget development in Greece.

I'm always worried when I ask the audience, How many people know of or have heard of Betavine?? You can never be sure of the response.
I'm pleased to say over half the room raised their hands which made my presentation one of the easiest to deliver on the day.

So my personal highlight of the day was the Widgets running on the Nintendo Wii. Yes this was something I'd always intended to try out, but had never done it. Obviously hearing the strategy for widget development and monetisation opportunities was a close second ;)



For those of you not able to make the event but would like to see the presentations from the day, I recommend you visit the Vodafone Greece DevCamp page here on Betavine.

I'd like to thank the event organisers and our hosts for the day, and of course, the developer audience for being so welcoming to all the speakers.
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Over The Air - 25th/26th Sept

Over the Air is a grass-roots mobile developer event that is completely unique in the mobile industry events calendar – it is free to attend, is hands-on in the style of hack-days and bar-camps, covers the cutting edge of current mobile development (as opposed to glossy future-speak or sales-pitches), and features bean bags, a big party and an overnight sleep-over. There will also be a competition at the end of the event for the best categories of applications created during the event, with many great prizes.

This year’s programme is currently being put together, but will once again feature technical presentations, tutorials, workshops, and break-out rooms. Expect topics such as Open Source, Java, Symbian (Series-60), Mobile Web, Mobile Ajax, Android, Mobile Linux, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc. If you would like to run a session at Over the Air, please take moment to fill in our session suggestion form. The sessions will be 55 minutes in length and while the focus of the event is on mobile development, we are also accepting sessions on user experience and design and we are putting together some sessions on mobile art including (hopefully) a mobile film festival.

We are still looking for one more sponsor, to ensure that event is completely free to attend – if you’d like to take advantage of a great opportunity to reach an audience of 400+ mobile developers and enthusiasts from across the UK and Europe, please contact margaret@overtheair.org.

Find out more about the event on our blog: www.overtheair.org ,
follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ota09,
and register to attend on Eventbrite:
overtheair09.eventbrite.com!
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Music Hack Day

Betavine were proud sponsors of Music Hack Day!



200 developers and coders converged at the offices of The Guardian for a full weekend of rapidly building exciting new mashups, apps and hacks. Using several API's from companies such as Last.fm, SoundCloud and 7digital.

Take a look at the winning hacks from the event at

http://musichackday.org/info/Hacks
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Symbian Smartphone Show - Day two



The opening keynote speaker today was Kai Oistamo (Executive Vice President of Devices in Nokia) who took to the stage using his mobile phone to drive a small remote-controlled truck – Fortunately his Business skills are better than his driving skills as the truck crashed into the back of stage! He was using an N92 with Bluetooth enabled, accelerators used to direct the truck in forward/reverse, left/right directions and some 3rd party software. Kai talked about how social networking is driving new communications and web behaviors. “Place, People and Time” is the context that is creating the next generation of web apps. He talked of a vision where by pointing a device at a landmark e.g., a theatre it would immediately retrieve what was showing that evening, who was selling tickets and for how much! - welcome to the world of “point and find”.

Patrick Olsson (Sony Ericsson, Head of Software Development) then took center stage to talk about Project Capuchin (announced back in Spring this year). In essence this was about taking the best bits of two languages, Java and Flash to produce a mobile-app. For example the UI could be built in Flash with all your business or application logic written up in Java and then packaged as a Java container. In fact you can mix and match but the end package must always be a Java container. It was announced earlier today that Capuchin would come to the Symbian Foundation.

These speakers were followed up by Benoit Schillings from Qt who talked about the “Code once, create more and deploy everywhere”. Benoit also announced today that new developer tools for the S60 platform would be released by the end of this year with deeper integration with the platform.

An active panel debate (who will win the runtime race?) and developer awards rounded off the session along with the announcement that Lee Williams had been appointed the executive director of the Symbian Foundation, swiftly followed up by his first public speech in this role. Check the press releases to hear about his 4 beacons or focus points for the foundation.

Did you attend the show? What were your thoughts? Good balance between business and developer subjects? Are there are any subjects that you would like to talk or hear more about?
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Symbian Smartphone Show - Day 1



David Wood (Executive VP Research, Symbian) opened the key note speeches with three important words "Developers, developers, developers". His theme was common through all speeches and was at the heart of most of the days sessions. Many companies are realising developers are the key to launching innovative apps. In addition, announced today, Symbian O/S will go free, estimated at around 7million lines of code!

John Ellis (Motorola) stepped up to give a very informative and very inspiring call to arms with clear statements around platform owners relinquishing control of a platform will lead to acceleration in innovation coupled with statistics like by 2012 more than half the planet will have mobiles.

Many seminars kicked off from 12:30 with developers and business topics available to all. Opera, S60 runtimes and Mobile Ajax to name a few really did a good job of capturing the audiences interest with some sessions ending all too soon - Often a good sign of a great topic with the need for further discussion.

Are you working with mobile Ajax, what best practices do you utilise? Do you think Betavine should have a Mobile Ajax zone?

Day two looks set to continue where day one finished off…
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GSMA Mobile Asia Congress

10th - 12th November 2009, Macau, SAR

 

Mobilefest London

13th November 2009, London

 

Devoxx 2009

16th - 20th November 2009

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