Once, Twice a winner

Early this year we won a mobile development challenge. The contest platform is for Ericsson SIP/IMS. It was co-sponsored by Globe Telecoms. We won that contest,Globe 3G Multimedia Challenge

After that event, Globe had sponsored another challenge, this time using their "opened" SMS/MMS API. When I say "opened", it is open to verified developers. You can not just register and grab the API and scrutinize it.


We won again the second challenge,Globe Labs Challenge. We feel the second challenge will be tougher because we have a title to depend and more developers were present during the launch.

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@Nokia Forum Code Camp

Last two days, August 26, 27 was the Nokia Forum Code Camp, sort of preparation for developers on the Globe Challange. They held the place in Intercon Hotel and the place was attended by many developers. Saw some familiar faces but most are new to me.

On this Code Camp, we got interested on severals topics, there are swell ideas that are great to incorporate to projects.

Topics like SVG and GPS on Nokia Selected Symbian phones were most interesting part of the Code camp. Read more!

Open is the Word of the Day

Today is a long day for me. There are two prominent names in the IT industry that are publicly presenting their business direction. Globe Telecom and Microsoft, two big names opening their doors to local developers.

In Globe, this is the second day of their Globe Innovation Convention being held in Edsa Shangrila. There are more developers this time than their last event.

While Microsoft is being held at MCafe in Makati City. See pictures after the jump.


These two companies have the same direction, ironically, our company have done already the preliminary projects of something like this before this public announcement of these companies.

Both initiatives are open to developers, Globe and Microsoft provides laboratories that a small developer can use to test their wares. A very good move, this will surely make software and mobile development much better than years before.

Pictures from Globe Convention:
















Pictures from Microsoft:

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GSMA 3rd Party Access Project

From time to time, I try to see what's cooking in the GSM Association (www.gsmworld.com) and recently I found this interesting news or initiative - GSMA 3rd Party Access Project. I got curious about this initiative and click right away the registration link, skipping to read the entire post.

I register and was told that an email with username/password will be sent to my email address. I waited......nothing.


I forgot about it and then out of nowhere I received an email containing my account and password to the portal after a month(?). Well the email contains the reason of the delay and I shrugged and tried out the portal.

It's barely populated yet with information or entries, (what do you expect for portal just started?) However, it made me think about it, will this initiative fly? I can imagine what this project can do and how it will make a big difference to service providers and content providers.

Working with multiple Mobile Operators is big pain and cost a lot of resources, with the promise of standard API, the Mobile Operator can expose what's needed and useful information to a 3rd Party.

I don't know if this has to do with Globe's opening up through their new Globelabs initiative because it is somewhat similar.

Anyway, hope this help the industry.

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