We here at ADN hope you had a wonderful holiday season! 2009 is already shaping up to be an exciting and fulfilling year in the industry despite the economic downturn. Innovation is continuing at a rapid pace with new devices and applications launched daily that further the capabilities of mobile devices. ACCESS continues to make progress within the mobile Linux intiative with the release of ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 and ACCESS Linux Platform Mini along with the continued efforts of the LiMo Foundation.

As you may already know, the NetFront Browser has been ACCESS’ flagship product for many years, embedded in over half a billion devices worldwide. With that foundation, ACCESS has launched NetFront Widgets, a web application player and development environment. Now web developers can take advantage of ACCESS’ strong installation base to deploy Widgets on a variety of platforms including ACCESS Linux Platform, Windows Mobile and S60. ADN has released the NetFront Widgets Contents Development Tools v2.0 Beta 2 for developing simple, yet powerful web applications. ADN will be rolling out full support for NetFront Widget development for this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb 16th - 19th.

Always a well attended and valuable event, the Mobile World Congress is approaching so it is time to make your travel plans if you haven’t already. ACCESS will once again be situated in the Courtyard (CY10) with a large booth displaying exclusive and captivating demos within the ACCESS Linux Platform and NetFront product lines. Come by our booth to see the latest and greatest from ACCESS and don’t miss out on the Annual ACCESS Networking Cocktail Party on Tuesday, February 17th from 4:00 - 7:00 PM. Sample delicious local fare, unwind to the cool sounds of DJ Ferrari and try our specialty drinks.

To find out more information and to register for the Mobile World Congress, visit the website.

WIP Jam Session at Mobile World Congress 2009 Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:30am - 5:00pm, Hall 2, FIRA Join WIP for our popular Day for Developers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The best mobile developers meet key leaders of the mobile ecosystem in interactive sessions where we are serious about no panels, no ppt and no ties! Sign up now at: www.wipjam.com Larry Berkin, VP ACCESS, & Caroline Lewko, CEO WIP, will facilitate a wrap up of the Day for Developers.

MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona

The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress. Larry Berkin, VP Ecosystem and Corporate Business Development, ACCESS has been selected to be on the International Jury to select the most innovative mobile applications. http://mobilepeerawards.com/jury.

Barcelona, Monday February 16, 2009

163 startups participated and 42 nominees were selected by their respective chapters. An international Jury will now select the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona. The finalists chosen to present in Barcelona will be announced on January 26.

The startups nominated by the MobileMonday chapters to compete for the Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona are:

• 7syntax - Portugal
• Addict Digital Media - Buenos Aires
• aka-aki networks GmbH - Berlin
• Anaeko - Belfast
• Aradiom - Istanbul
• Babajob.com - Bangalore
• Beabloo - Barcelona
• Big in Japan Inc. - Dallas
• bioLocate - Jakarta
• CIDWAY - Geneva
• Cirius Technologies, Inc. - Los Angeles
• Crave Mobile - Philadelphia
• Creador Estudio Interactivo C.A. - Caracas
• Dazzboard _LinkoTec Inc. - Helsinki
• Dial2Do - Dublin
• Dialy - Maroc
• DPGroup >> Product: SINDYK - Bogota
• Fortumo - Estonia
• fring - Tel Aviv
• Getjar Networks - Lithuania
• iKen Solutions - Mumbai
• Keynetik - Washington DC
• Liquid Air Lab GmbH / adplace.com - Frankfurt
• me2me AG - Zurich
• Mob4Hire - Vancouver
• Mobintech A/S - Copenhagen
• mobiSiteGalore - Chennai
• MocoSpace - Boston
• Nimbuzz B.V. - Amsterdam
• Orbster GmbH - Munich
• Oxynade - Brussels
• Palringo - London
• PopCatcher AB - Sweden
• rmbrME - New York
• Secusmart GmbH - Dusseldorf
• Smaato Inc. - Hamburg
• Soonr - Silicon Valley
• Tellmewhere - Paris
• Unkasoft Advergaming - Madrid
• Wapalta - St. Petersburg
• Wapja.net - Sao Paulo
• WorldMate, Inc. - Atlanta
• Xumii - Sydney

WANTED: NetFront Mobile Widgets!

Mobile Widget Developers: Get Your Widgets Exposed at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona!

ADN is looking for some great NF mobile widgets to showcase at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the ACCESS booth.

Register or login to ADN, get the documentation and tools, create and submit a widget for ADN review.

What’s In It For You?

• Business development opportunities for your widget
• Gain global market exposure with ACCESS and its’ partners

What Kinds of Widgets Are We Looking For?

Unique and sublime. Innovative widgets in the categories of:

• News & Finance
• Sports
• Weather
• Maps/ Travel
• Audio/Video
• Shopping
• Social Networks

As customer momentum for the ACCESS Linux Platform grows, ADN is releasing an update to the ALP Development Suite 2.4. Since the first public release of the ALP Development Suite in February 2007, ACCESS has continued to expand the functionality of the SDK, giving developers a powerful and easy to use tool for native Linux application development. The updated SDK incorporates many new features including a new skin for finger touch user interface support, audio and video capabilities in the Simulator, updated ALP-Glade to support new platform widget components, and added support to run on the latest Ubuntu 8.04 release (see Release Notes for instructions). Future releases of the ALP Development Suite will incorporate LiMo compliance as the foundation continues its innovative path towards creating an open, Linux based software platform for use by the whole global industry to produce mobile devices.

Download the latest version of the ALP Development Suite and read the Release Notes here. The ALP CODECS required to run sound and video in the Simulator are a separate download and instructions for installation are also available in the download section. For Windows and Mac users, a new VMware image has also been released with the latest version of the SDK running on Ubuntu 7.10.

The extensive documentation guides have been updated for the new release and can be found here. For any technical issues related to the SDK and application development, please use the discussion forums so our Developer Relations Engineers can assist you.

Developers… ADN is actively seeking new and cool mobile applications to enhance the ACCESS Linux Platform for all upcoming device releases. We encourage you to submit your Native Linux, Java, and/or Garnet OS applications to us for evaluation. Your application will be tested for functionality and compatibility internally and will not be shared with anyone outside of ADN without your permission. If your application passes with flying colors, we may offer to include it in our tradeshow demos, most notably the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco August 4 - 7.

Submit Your Applications for Testing and Evaluation (You must be logged in to fill out form)

Larry Berkin, head of ADN, has put together a panel on funding of mobile applications at the upcoming Orange Partner Camp. Participants in the session are lead investors from Innovacom, (France Telecom VC fund) and DoCoMo Capital (DoCoMo VC fund) and Orange. We wanted to give ADN members the opportunity to participate if you cannot join us at Orange Partner Camp.

The panel will consist of lively discussion and analysis on the mobile industry covering past investments, success stories and valuations. If you have questions you would like to ask, just post a comment below, we will post a brief report after the session. If you would like to pitch your company to these folks, please pre-arrange a meeting with us at the Event by sending us an email

“Funding Mobile Application Development: A Venture Capital Perspective”

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 6
11:15 - 11:45 (30 min)

Moderator:
Larry Berkin - Developer Ecosystem & Technology Acquisition, ACCESS
Panelists:
Rakesh Sood - Venture Advisor, DoCoMo Capital, DoCoMo’s N. American Venture Group
Denis Barrier - General Partner, Innovacom, France Telecom’s Venture Group
Martin Duval - Director of the Orange Start-Up Program, and CEO of bluenove

Venture capital investors need a vehicle for discovering breakthrough technologies in the telecom landscape. They have a mission to fund startups that will improve the ability of carriers to deliver services. Buoyed by the opening of the IPO window, acquisitions and innovative services by entrepreneurs, the venture industry in 2007 had its biggest investment year since 2001. Will the dollars continue to flow to start-ups in 2008? If so, where? Listen as our panel of leading VCs gives its views of the industry and where it is headed.

Product Pitches: ACCESS, Innovacom, DoCoMoCapital

Tuesday April 15 2008 12:00-17:00 in ACCESS Villa (by appointment)

Interested developers can schedule 1:1 private meetings with Innovacom, DoCoMo Capital and ACCESS to demonstrate and talk for 15 minutes. This is a chance for you to show the latest and greatest mobile applications and services for further consideration & discussion. Developers please sign up in advance.

ACCESS is once again a Platinum Sponsor for the 7th Orange Partner Camp located in beautiful Faro, Portugal April 14-16.

To learn more about the event and to register, visit the Orange Partner Website.

The philosophy is simple - 3 days of interactive presentations, workshops, sessions, coding, 1-2-1 chats, speed dating and contests… helping you and Orange to drive innovation forward, and into the hands of mobile, broadband, fixed and IPTV customers.

Innovate, learn and network amongst your peers:

• Business and consumer downloadable mobile application providers
• Service enablers and platform providers
• Converged solution providers
• Publishers and aggregators
• Systems integrators and ISVs

As a Platinum Sponsor, ACCESS will have a booth with the latest demos from ADN including:

• What’s new in the ALP SDK 2.4
• Running the ALP SDK in Windows using VMWare
• Syncing your device with Outlook using HotSync
• Preview of ALP running on hardware with the Orange Home Screen
• NetFront Browser Widgets

ACCESS will also be hosting 5 technical and business related sessions:

Monday, April 14 - Room 1
16:15 - 16:45 (30 min)

“An Insight Into Charting a New Course With Mobile Linux”

Didier Diaz - Senior Vice President; Product Strategy Management, ACCESS

This session provides an overview of the Mobile Linux landscape and market opportunity. We will discuss industry consortiums, the role that ACCESS and Orange have played in LiPS and LIMO, the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) and the Orange i800 ALP phone. We will also look at the role that Open Source and Linux play in accelerating converged device innovation.

Monday, April 14 - Room 1
17:00 - 17:30 (30 min)

“Getting Existing Java Apps Running on the Orange i800 ALP Device”

Bill Lee - Developer Relations Engineer, ACCESS
Ewa Matejska - Sr Engineer Dev Tools Group, ACCESS

Learn how to get your existing Java application running on the first Linux-based phone from Orange. Test it for compatibility with the ALP Dev Suite. In this session you will hear about the supported Java and Garnet OS features in ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). Learn how to get your application into the platform Simulator and launch it. It worked!

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 6
11:15 - 11:45 (30 min)

“Funding Mobile Application Development: A Venture Capital Perspective”

Moderator:
Larry Berkin - Developer Ecosystem & Technology Acquisition, ACCESS
Panelists:
Rakesh Sood - Venture Advisor, DoCoMo Capital, DoCoMo’s N. American Venture Group
Denis Barrier - General Partner, Innovacom, France Telecom’s Venture Group
Martin Duval - Director of the Orange Start-Up Program, and CEO of bluenove

Venture capital investors need a vehicle for discovering breakthrough technologies in the telecom landscape. They have a mission to fund startups that will improve the ability of carriers to deliver services. Buoyed by the opening of the IPO window, acquisitions and innovative services by entrepreneurs, the venture industry in 2007 had its biggest investment year since 2001. Will the dollars continue to flow to start-ups in 2008? If so, where? Listen as our panel of leading VCs gives its views of the industry and where it is headed.

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 1
12:00 - 12:30 (30 min)

“Tales from the Trenches… Developing for ALP” (30 mins)

Wouter Brink - VP Engineering, Elements Interactive

A presentation on the ins & outs of developing mobile applications for the ACCESS LINUX Platform from a leading European mobile application developer that has been through it.

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 3
16:00 - 17:15 (75 min)

“Creating Next-Gen Mobile Applications for ACCESS Linux Platform”

Bill Lee - Developer Relations Engineer, ACCESS
Ewa Matejska - Sr Engineer Dev Tools Group ACCESS

This session provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the ACCESS Linux Platform architecture and components. This session does not require a technical background but touches on technical elements involved in developing applications for the ACCESS Linux Platform.

We hope to see you there!

Download the latest release of the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite with SDK v.2.4. This release includes many platform and application improvements including a new touch-based user experience model. New developer features in this release include Eclipse IDE updates, a new default simulator application with skinning and controllable device characteristics, new Exchange Manager APIs, support for Ubuntu 7.10.

With this latest release of the ALP SDK, you can install on Ubuntu release 7.10 as this release has been tested for compatibility. The default simulator is now alp-sim which runs the platform in an interactive phone skin. Now you can interact with your application and ALP in something that resembles a typical device, using the on-screen keypad, five-way navigation control, and buttons for input as well as interacting with the “touchscreen” display with the mouse. In addition, you can simulate hardware conditions such as low-battery, plugged-in and more in this simulator release.

This SDK features a new ALP project template you can use as the base for your application. New APIs for Exchange Manager are included in this release plus APIs and defines have been changed and added throughout the public API set. You will find all of these as you use the Development Suite IDE which has been updated with the latest Eclipse and CDT releases.

Please see the ACCESS Linux Platform Release Notes included in the download for complete details.

Thank you to Elements Interactive for sharing their experience with ALP via this excellent video detailing the ease of porting their mobile applications to the ACCESS Linux Platform. To learn more about Elements Interactive and the EdgeLib mobile game engine, please visit their website. www.edgelib.com.

Positively reviewed video submissions will be posted on the ACCESS Developer Network portal along with information about your product or your company. Please send any videos to us through the Contact Us form with “ALP DevSuite Rocks!” as the subject.

Feb 11-14th
Barcelona, Spain

www.mobileworldcongress.com

It’s more important than ever for all players in the mobile value chain to stay on top of what’s happening in this rapidly evolving industry. To stay on the cutting edge, your company must be connected to the right people with the right information – and the right solutions.

Where conventional trade shows fall short, the GSMA Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM World Congress) provides an ideal personal experience and environment for networking with a select circle of mobile professionals who can positively impact your business.

Make the greatest, most effective investment in yourself and your company by being part of the most highly regarded event in the mobile industry, the GSMA Mobile World Congress.

What to See – Cutting-edge technologies and strategies from those leading industry developments.

How to Be Seen – Share your market vision and promote your brand to key influencers and decision makers in the mobile industry.

What to Do – Establish new business relationships with buyers and decision makers from influential markets.

Connect with the mobile future at GSMA Mobile World Congress!

Presented by Larry Berkin Sr. Dir; Developer Ecosystem and Technology Acquisition; ACCESS and Martin Wrigley, Head of developers’ technology; Orange Partner.

‘Open Source’. Developers you’ve heard the hype. It’s now time to find out what it’s about!

Are you a developer interested in creating mobile applications for next generation platforms? Are you familiar with C development and the software process?

If so, then join us in this exclusive seminar to find out about ‘Open Source’ technology, the growing mobile Linux market and how you can start developing for the ACCESS Linux Platform.

ACCESS has been working with leading Industry Analysts to conduct research on the market opportunities within this area. They’re now ready to share this information with you.

Participate in this virtual seminar to:

• Understand what Orange and ACCESS are doing to promote open standards and support the rapid growth of Mobile Linux development.
• Understand the market dynamics and trends in the Mobile Linux market.
• Get an insight into emerging technologies and the latest mobile development techniques.
• Plus, we’ll provide you with technical insights and information so you can start native development for the ACCESS Linux Platform.

If you’re interested in attending this virtual seminar send us an email to developers@orange.com with ‘Linux_virtual_seminar’ in the subject line and we’ll let you know when registration is open.