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DMA Continues to Support a One-Stop National Do-Not- Call List for Consumers and MarketersNEW YORK, January 29, 2003 Today, The DMA filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, OK to protect the U.S. telemarketing industry, an industry that is critical to the American economy. In its lawsuit, The DMA argues that the FTC's proposed government-run do-not-call registry would violate First Amendment rights to advertise freely. Also, The DMA asserts that in creating such a list, the FTC exceeded its statutory authority. In addition, The DMA points out that the FCC is considering a similar proposal, opening the door to potential bureaucratic duplication. The FCC is expected to make its recommendation in a matter of a few months. The Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) reiterated its support for a national do-not-call list that provides a one-stop mechanism for opting out of national telephone solicitations for consumers and a one-stop shop for marketers to clean their lists. Such a national registry should include the lists from the various states, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is required to do, in any no-call list the FCC mandates. "The DMA continues to support a national do-not-call list that provides a one-stop mechanism for opting out of national telephone solicitations for consumers and a one-stop shop for marketers to clean their lists," said H. Robert Wientzen, president & CEO, The DMA. "That is why we established The DMAs Telephone Preference Service (TPS) in 1985." "The FTC clearly overreached and acted prematurely in attempting to set up a government-run do-not-call registry and to regulate other technical aspects of the industry," Wientzen added. "The FTC would have served the industry and consumers better had it waited until the FCC completed its review." The FCC is not limited in the industries over which it can apply a do-not-call registry. By acting beyond the scope of its legal authority, the FTC also will burden consumers and telemarketers, potentially requiring them to subscribe to numerous registries. At the very least, the FTC should have waited until its sister federal agency ruled on its similar proposal so as to avoid bureaucratic duplication. (more) "The recently proposed actions also raise grave concerns about regulation of constitutionally protected commercial free speech," said Wientzen. "The FTC is singling out this form of advertising now, what will be next?" "The FTC did announce a number of initiatives, such as mandatory caller ID and expanded consumer disclosures, that will help address negative aspects of the telemarketing industry," said Wientzen. "The FTC listened to the industrys concerns on a number of issues." Recently announced consumer research indicates that the state and private sector do-not-call programs already in place are working obviating the need for federal intervention. An audit of The DMA's national Telephone Preference Service (TPS) indicated that the service, available free to consumers, is 80.5 percent effective at decreasing the number of telephone solicitations. This result and the further emergence of caller-ID technology obviate the need for a government-run do-not-call registry. The DMA reiterated its commitment to its industry-run national do-not-call list, TPS, as the most effective way to manage consumers' telephone marketing preferences. TPS has been extremely successful in reducing the unwanted national telephone solicitations registrants receive because DMA members are required to suppress TPS names against their prospect lists, and because non-members use it widely, as well. As of today, approximately 7.5 million individuals are registered on TPS. The teleservices industry employs more than four million people and provides product offerings directly to consumers that resulted in $275 billion in sales in 2001. The DMA is the leading trade association for businesses interested in interactive and database marketing, with nearly 4,700 member companies from the United States and 53 other nations. Founded in 1917, its members include direct marketers from every business segment as well as the nonprofit and electronic marketing sectors. Included are catalogers, Internet retailers and service providers, financial services providers, book and magazine publishers, book and music clubs, retail stores, industrial manufacturers and a host of other vertical segments, including the service industries that support them. According to a DMA-commissioned study, direct and interactive marketing sales in the United States exceeded $2.0 trillion in 2002, including $125.7 billion in catalog sales and $33.7 billion in sales generated by the Internet. The DMA's Web site is www.the-dma.org, and its consumer Web site is www.shopthenet.org.### |


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Fair-haired actor
Matt O'Leary
ascended to fame as a child star, proving himself adept in both family-oriented and quintessentially adult material. On the former note, he was memorable as Gary Giggles in the
Robert Rodriguez
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
(2002) and
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
; on the latter, he also tackled more mature fare, with child roles in the sleeper thriller
(2002) and such box-office blockbusters as
The Alamo
Death Sentence
(2007), and
Live Free or Die Hard
(2007). ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a high-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as Bruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest criminal mastermind (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to cripple the entire country with an innovative act of technological terrorism, only one cop can insure that the integrity of the system stays intact. In this, the fourth installment of the long-running action series, Underworld director Len Wiseman picks up the torch formerly carried by directors John McTiernan and Renny Harlin to helm a script penned by Mark Bomback. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable biopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here played brilliantly by British actor Kenneth Branagh. Like Sunrise, Warm Springs uses as its starting point the year 1921, when the 39-year-old Roosevelt was permanently paralyzed from the waist down by an attack of polio. But whereas the earlier film concentrated on FDR's battle to return to public life despite his handicap, this film zeroes in on Roosevelt's efforts to cure himself of his affliction. Having heard of the therapeutic value of the waters of Warm Springs in rural Georgia, Roosevelt makes a pilgrimage to the area, which is little more than a swamp surrounded by dilapidated shacks. Though he never experiences the "miracle" cure that he so desperately seeks, Roosevelt is instrumental in the conversion of Warm Springs from a backwater hellhole to a streamlined, efficiently managed polio-treatment center, a virtual mecca for hundreds of thousands of others who had been crippled by the debilitating illness. And in the process, he also brings hope, optimism, and racial enlightenment to the poverty-stricken, multiethnic citizens of Warm Springs. Even more significantly, FDR removes the stigma of polio from the public consciousness, forever abolishing the misguided notions that the disease adversely affected the brain, that it could be spread merely by physical contact, or that it represented celestial "punishment" of the victim (it is noted, however, that Roosevelt was always careful never to reveal the true extent of his immobility nor his atrophied legs in public, feeling that it might diminish the nation's image of an "invulnerable" Commander in Chief). Also in the cast are Cynthia Nixon as Roosevelt's devoted wife, Eleanor; Jane Alexander (who'd previously played Eleanor Roosevelt in two TV miniseries) as his over-protective mother Sara; David Paymer as his crusty chief aide Louis Howe; Kathy Bates as his no-nonsense physical therapist Helena Mahoney; and Tim Blake Nelson as Tom Loyless, the man in charge of Warm Springs. Originally telecast by HBO on April 30, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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on 16-07-2012 11:38 PM
Next month im buying PS VIta. Ita an awesome piece of harware but the software support so far looks kinda weak. Im afraid if i purchase i might end with a dead system without support.
What do you think...When can we see some improvment over software releases.
If Sony showed up few new games on E3 2012 and if they talked few words about the system i woudnt have been this much sceptical. But the gave me impresion like they dont care of their own products...How bad is that for them!!!
I love Sony and im buying Vita for sure but the ammount of attention they're giving ia not tolerable
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next month is august, LITTLEBIGPLANET VITA has a release date of (at the moment) JULY to SEPTEMBER, ASSASINS CREED III LIBERATION is out OCTOBER, BLACK OPS for VITA is out at the end of the year, so getting it in august would move you close to the release of some great games that will hopefully push the psvita forwards
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on 17-07-2012 12:00 PM
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Its not the games to be honest but instead lack of attention that is given.
Even Sony showed some indifference. There is no hype. No one is talking. There are no reviews. You're opening Gaming site there are no news No previews.
The system like Does NOT Exist!!!
If there are news like
- Yeah we are porting PS2 remasters on PS Vita in 2013
- Yeah Final Fantasy Type-0 is coming on Vita in 2013
- Yeah we are making a brand new IP for this console instead of porting spin offs and re-relases in 2013
then i'll be much interested into this device...
I bet Sony havent made a single deal with third party publishers before 2011. Companies should have worked on Vita titles long time ago...
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pkrass | 01 August, 2012 09:00
Congratulations to Sajid Ali Anjum, our Nokia Developer Champion of the month for August. Based in Pakistan, Sajid has worked on mobile platforms since 2008. Having earned a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from the college of engineering and technology at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, he now focuses on building his company, SajiSoft, and on developing for Nokia Asha Touch phones. Sajid's special interests include social networking, location-based services, mobile utilities, and games.
On Nokia Store, Sajid's company offers several games and utilities, including Math n Fun, a game for practicing math; Brain Bash, a cartoon game; and mLocker, a file-locking utility. His most recent app is Tangle Craze, an arcade puzzle game optimized for the full touch UI for Series 40.
Sajid shares his skills with the Nokia community as a frequent contributor to the Nokia Developer discussion boards and Wiki, where he can be found under his username sajisoft. In addition, his skills have won him several developer awards, including the Nokia Calling All Innovators 2011 competition and Nokia Qt Ambassador. Sajid engages the wider developer community through his blog on the Sajisoft site. He also speaks publicly on topics that include getting started with mobile programming, and developing mobile games.Bravo, Sajid!
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davidjstone | 18 June, 2012 18:49
Beta versions of updated Java and web tools for targeting full-touch Nokia Asha devices will be released Monday June 25.
Information, documentation and guides for these upcoming releases are available now, allowing you to familiarise yourself with the new capabilities of the tools.
Today's documentation releases include:
More guides and material, including 'getting started' technical videos, will be published on June 25 to coincide with the release of the new tools.
The Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 are the first all-touch Series 40 devices, and are expected to ship in the third quarter of 2012 (second quarter for Asha 305). They will have an estimated retail price in the EUR 63-68 range for Asha 305, Asha 306 and EUR 92 for Asha 311 (excluding taxes and subsidies).
davidjstone | 11 June, 2012 11:21
What do you get when you mix big brands with big brains and big prizes? A one-of-a-kind program to connect developers, brands and mobile technology – The Big Brand Hackathon.
The Big Brand Hack is on this weekend in San Francisco, and it puts developers in front of some of the world's most well-known consumer brands as partners who can transform concepts into code and ideas into apps.
This is a chance for developers in the US to build some amazing experiences for consumers and get recognized by some powerhouse brands. Register here to compete for more than $25,000 in cash and $20,000 in prizes. Kraft Foods and The Home Depot will reward developers who design apps that drive brand awareness through social, location and other mobile services.
We will be there, awarding up to 50 Nokia Lumia 800s to the developers who create the best Windows Phone apps.
Bravo TV will also be filming the hack as part of an upcoming reality show based on Silicon Valley.
Twenty developer finalists selected over the two day hack will have a chance to showcase their app to attendees (500 plus) at the Social-Loco conference.
The Big Brand Hackathon is June 16,17 with winners showcasing their apps at the Social_Loco conference June 18.
Participating brands will share their business challenge to developers. Teams and individual developers spend two days coding to come up with creative, technology-based solutions that include a location and social feature that brands can put into the marketplace.
Big Brand Hackathon prize packages include:
· HOME DEPOT 1st Prize $8,000. 2nd Prize $3,000
· KRAFT 1st Prize $8,000. 2nd Prize $3,000
· Best Use of Social APIs $1,000
· Best Use of Location APIs $1,000
· People's Choice $1,000
· Best Windows Phone Apps Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones (up to 50)
Learn more and register to join the Big Brand hack at http://bigbrandhackathon.eventbrite.com/
davidjstone | 11 June, 2012 11:14
Full-touch has arrived on the world's largest mobile platform, with the launch of three innovative new Nokia Asha devices
The Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306, and Asha 311 bring a full-touch form factor to Series 40, and the touchscreen devices will let Series 40 developers showcase the biggest, most tactile apps ever seen on the platform.
The devices are expected to ship in the third quarter of 2012 (second quarter for Asha 305), and will have an estimated retail price in the EUR 63-68 range for Asha 305 and Asha 306 and EUR 92 for Asha 311 (excluding taxes and subsidies).
While representing an innovative new chapter for Series 40, all three devices remain true to the values that have helped us ship 1.5 billion Series 40 devices so far - accessibility, value and utility. The new phones take advantage of Nokia Broswer 2.0, a major recent update which uses cloud technology to reduce data consumption when browsing the web by up to 90%. The pre-loaded social client makes it simple to access Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. All users will also receive an exclusive gift of 40 EA game titles, free to download and keep forever.
Consider the growth of Series 40 downloads - of the first billion Nokia Store downloads, Series 40 devices accounted for 13%. Of the fifth (and most recent) billion, Series 40 comprised 42% . There are now over 100,000 content items available in Nokia Store for Series 40 devices, and nearly 25,000 specifically targeting Nokia Asha and its more advanced features. Adding an all screen paradigm to this growing app platform creates even more possibility for your Java and web apps.
The Java and web tools Series 40 developers know and use today for Series 40 development are being updated and augmented with additional capabilities that will allow you to target these exciting new devices. We will announce these updated Java and web tooling releases and release dates as soon as possible here on the Nokia Developer blog.
pkrass | 06 June, 2012 18:44
Portuguese-speaking developers now have a great opportunity for training on Nokia platforms: 13 webinars over the next two months.
All these Nokia webinars will be conducted in Portuguese, and all will held at 4 p.m. Brasilia time.
Sign up now or get more information for any or all of these Nokia webinars:
12 June: Qt Network explained
13 June: Dicas de otimização para aplicações Qt
14 June: Qt SDK: debugging e profiling
19 June: O que há de novo no Qt 5
20 June: Usando Qt Mobility em suas aplicações Qt
21 June: Entendendo Model-View Delegates no Qt
26 June: Utilização de sensores com Nokia Windows Phone
27 June: Game API – J2ME S40
28 June: Web 1.5 SDK para Série 40
3 July: Introdução ao XNA Game Programming no Nokia Windows Phone
5 July: Como montar uma App em diversas resoluções de tela
10 July: Apps de consumo de APIs de Internet para mobile phones
11 July: Apps de consumo de APIs de Internet para Windows Phone
kevinSharp | 04 June, 2012 19:59
It is often difficult to select which contributors to the Nokia Developer Wiki deserve special recognition. Nokia Developer Champion Luis Valente made it easy this month with a stunning 300 article updates during May. This monumental effort was in support of the recent merger of the Nokia Developer Knowledgebase and Nokia Developer Wiki.
Luis is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and holds a Doctorate degree in Informatics from PUC-Rio, a top university in Brazil. His research passions include innovative mobile game interfaces using audio, gestures, and tactile feedback. Out of this research comes The Audio Flashlight series of games that allow competition between sighted an un-sighted contestants.
Crangratulations Luis, and thank you for your contributions to the Nokia Developer Community.
>> More on Luis' work in this discussion thread.
pkrass | 01 June, 2012 12:00
Nokia Developer Champion Craig Miller founded Spatial Minds -- a U.S. geo-spatial research, development, and consulting firm -- in 2004 and has more than 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing location-based services (LBS). He is also an advocate of Qt, Nokia's application and UI framework. Craig is a cofounder of the Seattle (Washington) Qt User group, and he recently organized the group's booth at LinuxFest Northwest, which featured local businesses and their Qt apps. Craig is also an active member of the Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS) and the author of Spatial Minds' Hello World blog.
Prior to forming his company, Craig was a Senior Software Engineer with Autodesk Location Services, where he developed innovative LBS products, designed the COM plug-in API for the tablet-based Onsite View, and earned an LBS-related patent. Craig holds a master's degree in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and he has done research at the University of Maine National Center for Geographic Information Analysis and Battelle Pacific Northwest National Labs' Remote Sensing Group. Craig also has hands-on experience and formal training in nearly all aspects of wired and wireless enterprise, mobile, and desktop location-based solutions. He has been a Nokia Developer member since 2010.
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pkrass | 23 May, 2012 16:17
Nokia Developer Champions are rightly celebrated for their developer skills. But they are also extraordinary people.
Take Simon Botes, a Nokia Developer Champion based in South Africa. Simon recently undertook an epic road trip of more than 5,000 km. He travelled to a farm outside Lyndenburg, in the South African province of Mpumalanga. There, Simon provided seven days of training on mobile phones to nearly a dozen quadriplegics living in a home run by Ama Wheelies, a non-profit organisation that helps people with spinal-cord injuries. The 32 Nokia C5-03 devices he trained them on were donated by Nokia Connects. 'Helping these disabled people really is a life-changing feeling', Simon says. 'I'm glad to be able to help.'
Such was Simon's commitment and pride at being a Nokia Developer Champion that he had his Nokia Developer Champion t-shirt couriered to the next stop on his driving route when he realised he hadn't packed it. The next day, T-shirt in hand, Simon set off for the Ama Wheelies farm. When he finally arrived in Lyndenburg, he trained several of the residents and their caretakers to use their new Nokia C5-03 device.
Moses Mlombo is one of the Ama Wheelies residents now using a Nokia phone. Paralyzed from the neck down after being shot in the chest six years ago, Moses uses a specially adapted Nokia C5-03 phone, both to communicate with others and run a small business that recycles printer cartridges. He uses a prosthetic on his wrist to hold the phone and taps on the phone's keys with a mouthstick. In this way, Moses says, 'I can still have a meaningful life.'
As for Simon, after his seven-day training session at Ama Wheelies, he visited nearby Kruger National Park to document wildlife species for a new mobile app he's working on – and to take some vacation time. 'This was one of the most awesome outreach programs I have helped on', Simon says. 'A HUGE thank-you to Nokia Connects...you guys rock!' We think Simon rocks, too.
Simon Botes, standing in black t-shirt, training Ama Wheelies residents Amos Nkosi (on left) and Bethuel Manyika.
davidjstone | 09 May, 2012 16:24
Headphones on. Tilt the seat back. Get ready, because Nokia Developer is about to turn your town into Dev City with its Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge.
We are hitting the road to 13-cities looking for developers who want to build an experience not just another app. To kick off the Ready.Set () {Code}Challenge, Nokia Developer will hold hackathons across the US and Canada beginning in May. You can sign up individually or form your own team to build the coolest, baddest apps for the Windows Phone platform and Nokia Lumia devices.
Prizes will be awarded on site at each event for the top 3 created apps, top student created app, and most Nokia-branded developer (use your imagination). App winners will be judged on creativity, usability, technical difficulty and app presentation.
1st place: $500 gift card & Nokia Lumia 900
2nd place: $250 gift card & Nokia Lumia 900
3rd place: $100 gift card & Nokia Lumia 900
Student Winner: $150 gift card & Nokia Lumia 900
Most Nokia-Branded Dev : $100 gift card & Nokia Lumia 900
At Nokia, we don't have ordinary developers, so these won't be ordinary hacks. We have some amazing experiences in store – like our Re-Charge Room - for developers to chill out between pounding out code. So come showoff your skills and earn rewards. Space will be limited so register early.
The Challenge is on. . . .Ready.Set () {Code}
Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge Schedule:
08:30 a.m. Light breakfast and registration
09:00 a.m. Welcome and competition overview
09:30 a.m. Let the hacking begin!
12:30 p.m. Lunch
07:00 p.m. Show us your app/Dinner
08:00 p.m. Winners announced
davidjstone | 08 May, 2012 16:43
Today at CTIA Wireless 2012 in New Orleans we announced multiple significant new app partnerships.
Developers and brands including Rovio, ESPN, PGA Tour, Paypal and Groupon are the latest partners in the growing Nokia Lumia ecosystem, and their arrival is another step forward in our ongoing work to bring differentiated and original app experiences to Nokia Lumia.
As part of these new partnerships, iconic games like Angry Birds Space will join core news and entertainment apps from the likes of AOL, News Week and Time Magazine on Nokia Lumia. In addition, PayPal, Groupon, Box, EA Interactive and Tripdot are committed to delivering great new experiences to the growing base of Nokia Lumia users. Many of the apps launch as Nokia Lumia exclusives.
Our SVP of Nokia Developer, Marco Argenti, said the following in the announcement. "We are focused on delivering great, locally relevant apps, and importantly, those which offer unique, exclusive and original experiences. With Nokia Lumia smartphones now available in 48 markets, developers are rapidly recognizing the business opportunities and creating their best work for our consumers."
There are now more than 80,000 apps now available in Windows Phone Marketplace, and a range of Lumia-only app experiences that differentiate the device from other Windows Phones. Here is what Nokia Lumia users can expect following today's announcements.
Rovio – Angry Birds Space and other titles joining the original Angry Birds on Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone
Rovio is building a dedicated design and development team to create games for Nokia Lumia smartphones and the wider Windows Phone ecosystem, with the goal of developing and publishing all future Rovio titles as soon as possible.
Electronic Arts (EA) Interactive - bringing leading game titles to Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone
Electronic Arts (EA) Interactive will continue to deliver leading game titles to Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone consumers, including FIFA, Madden NFL, NBA Jam, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2012, Mirror's Edge and Yahtzee. These games join titles such as Needs for Speed™ Undercover, Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit, The Sims™ 3, Spider Jack, and MONOPOLY which are already available in Windows Phone Marketplace
Groupon – Exclusive to Nokia Lumia for six months from launch
Groupon is currently working on an extensive upgrade of its Windows Phone app for launch in September 2012. The app will include a newly developed augmented reality deal discovery function to combine map and Points-of-Interest (POI) data with what is seen via the camera's viewfinder, enabling users to see virtual Groupon deals, in real-time, nearby. The app will be exclusive to Nokia Lumia customers for six months.
ESPN – Extended exclusivity on Nokia Lumia until May 2013
The exclusive ESPN Hub will deliver a number of key updates in coming months, including scores on Live Tiles, team-level panoramas, personalization of scores, leagues and teams, and additional sports coverage such as Tennis, NASCAR and the 2012 Olympics. Additionally, a Windows Phone version of the ESPN Fantasy Football app will launch exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones this coming fall.
PayPal for Windows Phone
PayPal and Nokia will work together to bring PayPal's secure, fast and easy payments capabilities to the Windows Phone platform and Nokia Lumia smartphones, globally. PayPal will leverage the power of Windows Phone Live Tiles to create a compelling user experience that provides users with the flexibility to pay on-the-go.
AOL Entertainment Hub - exclusive to Nokia Lumia for six months
Available exclusively to Nokia Lumia users at launch, AOL is set to introduce the AOL Entertainment Hub, bringing together the best of AOL's content to deliver an immersive and inter-connected experience on Windows Phone. Users can listen to one of 55,000 radio stations via SHOUTcast, stream free music albums with AOL's Listening Party or view Trailers and Movie listings.
Time Magazine for Windows Phone
TIME.com announced the forthcoming availability of TIME for Windows Phone. Utilising the stunning Windows Phone UI, the app will allow users to view TIME.com content, receive breaking news alerts, watch rich media content including video and share stories via the Windows Phone People Hub, while delivering the latest news and stories to users first via Live Tiles.
News Week – The Daily Beast app for Windows Phone
Newsweek's digital partner The Daily Beast is coming to Windows Phone. With a smart, speedy take on the news from around the world, and the depth and investigative power of Newsweek magazine, the Daily Beast app delivers the latest content through Live Tiles and combines the unique style of The Daily Beast with the Windows Phone UI. For users who only have minutes to digest the latest news, the app also delivers The Cheat Sheet – your one stop must have reads from across the world – uniquely designed for Windows Phone.
Box for Windows Phone
The new Windows Phone app from Box - the company focused on providing workers with simple, secure sharing from anywhere - will be available to Nokia Lumia consumers this summer. With support for nine languages, Box for Windows Phone will allow users across the globe to browse, search and share files from their account.
Tripdots - Exclusive to Windows Phone for three months from launch
Tripdots helps drivers optimise their driving behaviors while connecting with other vehicle owners and sharing driving efficiency achievements via social networks. The app lets users monitor the operation of their vehicles to enable cost savings through better understanding fuel economy. Everyone can participate in the MPG Leader Board game, and information is only sent to drivers after their trip is complete.
PGA Tour – Exclusive for Nokia Lumia for 12 months from launch
The PGA Tour is launching a new mobile app to provide fans with live, enhanced coverage of PGA Tour golf events on the Windows Phone platform. Developed with Nokia, the app will be available exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones beginning in late June 2012. The new app provides fans with live tournament scoring, highlights and player information and interactive, augmented coverage of select events and holes, showing each player's exact position and scoring information.
kevinSharp | 04 May, 2012 18:41
Nokia Developer Champion Vishal Dharankar is an independent consultant at Xenon Softwares and developer of the free FuelPad and MyFinance apps in Nokia Store. Based in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, he teaches post-graduate computer science when he's not busy coding apps of his own.
Last month he organized a full-day workshop to introduce students to Windows Phone development using Visual Studio and Expression Blend. While most students entering the workshop had no experience with Windows Phone work, by the end of the day 30 students competed in a 3-hour sprint to come up with the best app concepts. In an informal survey of the participants, the attendees were most impressed with the development tools and how "hassle free" it was to begin development for Windows Phone.
davidjstone | 04 May, 2012 15:09
Finland-based duo Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö, aka Pico Brothers, have broken through the 100 million download barrier in Nokia Store.
Pico Brothers are the second developers to achieve 100,000,000 downloads, reaching the milestone just two weeks after UTV Indiagames.
The company's strategy for success has involved delivering simple, clever apps that provide short bursts of entertainment.
Apps like 'Milk the Cow', 'Talking Hamster' and 'Flashlight Extreme' are Pico Brothers apps that deliver instant fun and utility.
"We make the apps that people want to have," says founder Niklas Karlström, "That's given us momentum, and it's snowballed."
Niklas and Kristian have achieved their success without needing to invest in additional staff. "We both still work from home, although I have a baby now so sometimes I go to an office to work in peace," Niklas says. His dream for five years time is to "have fun and to do something that makes sense". For ten years time it's "to still have fun".
Their range of apps in Nokia Store are about to be joined by apps on another platform; Windows Phone.
The duo is now hard at work developing apps for Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone Marketplace: "As a starting point, we're looking at getting about ten of our apps on the Windows Phone platform, including Talking Cat, some of our other entertainment apps and the anti-mosquito app."
The secret of success, according to Karlström, is dreaming up lots of creative ideas, only some of which come to fruition, "We have lots and lots of ideas, and some of those go as far as being published as apps."
Congratulations Pico Brothers on this incredible achievement. We look forward to seeing your efforts for Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone.
davidjstone | 25 April, 2012 15:34
In an increasingly competitive app landscape, it's truly exciting to see developers surface and achieve real, global success. And this week, we saw just that happen. UTV Indiagames – India's premier gaming company - has made history, and become the first developer to break through the 100 million downloads milestone in Nokia Store. More impressive, according to their founder and CEO Vishal Gondal, is that over 50 million new downloads have been driven in the past three months alone.
UTV Indiagames is a great example of a company which has worked to achieve success with Series 40 consumers through game genres such as Cricket, Bollywood, Casual and Action - not only in their home market, but also overseas. Their top performing countries are India, Vietnam, Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia – truly, a global hit.
As head of Developer activities here at Nokia, I'm delighted not only to see this milestone reached, but to witness the power of localization in action. Their success underlines that the local approach is more important than ever. The combination of great locally relevant games, localized languages, and Nokia's ability to merchandize or 'surface' apps through locally managed Nokia Store catalogues, has seen their popularity continually rise.
With a huge base of loyal consumers, UTV Indiagames have also leveraged Nokia's key local monetization features. The company offers 100 paid titles, and over 300 free ad-supported titles, thus ensuring consumers can enjoy games no matter what their payment means and abilities. The team is now looking to further expand payment options and consumer choice, with micro payments tailored to specific markets.
So what's next? The UTV Indiagames team have their sights set on 1 billion downloads, and will focus on great games for Series 40 and Nokia Asha consumers, while also developing new games on the Windows Phone platform for Nokia Lumia consumers, which will be available in Marketplace soon.
The team at IndiaGames have brilliantly authored their success, and deserve their place in the history books. Today, with more than 100 million downloads being enjoyed by customers in all corners of the world, they set a new industry benchmark driving global success, locally.
davidjstone | 24 April, 2012 16:38
Putting the user at the heart of your app designs is the key to creating winning apps. Our upcoming webinar walks you through a design example focusing on helping a user determine where they are, to facilitate the use of a location based application for Series 40 Touch and Type phones.
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The Rim Fire is a little too close to home. Not just because I think Tuolumne County is a drier, more southern version of Plumas County, but literally, it is too close to home.
Home for me is Sonora, the county seat of Tuolumne County, and, coincidentally, I went and visited there this last weekend.
A fire of this magnitude is surreal to most of us. The extent of my experience with fires is the smoke of some other community's fire that blows its way up the Sierra.
However, after spending a few days in Tuolumne County, I saw firsthand how a helpless community reacts to such a frightening force of nature.
The topography of the county is hills and ravines but hardly any valleys to speak of. There are two types of forests there: thick pine or forests of granite. Where there are rocks, there is hardly any fuel, but where there are trees, that is all in sight for miles and miles. This means when fires come, they are virtually inaccessible and heavily fueled.
All three of my siblings were going to be in town, which is a rarity in my family. Eager not to miss out on an impromptu family reunion, I made the trek to Sonora.
Initially, when I heard about the Rim Fire, I wasn't too alarmed. Fires are very typical where I'm from. However, when I realized how big it was and where it was traveling, I got more anxious.
On my drive down, I was caught in a herd of fire trucks and CalFire vehicles making their way up the mountain to defend areas I grew up in. As they drove past me, realizing their importance, I causally waved, because it seemed like the right thing to do.
As I continued on my way, I passed the county fairgrounds. We just hosted our fair in July, and instead of a brightly lit Ferris wheel and the bustle of carnival attendees, there were solemn rows of tents and RVs housing county evacuees.
The fire grew exponentially that first week, and it was clear it left the community dumbstruck.
I was in awe of the feeling of helplessness that comes with such a monstrous fire. I finally understood why everyone should thank firefighters.
It is so out of our hands. We are not equipped or prepared; we don't understand a fire, so all the county could do was paint the town with thank yous.
The streets were festooned with "thank you Rim Fire fighter" signs, and cars were covered in car paint, like they were cheering for the Wildcats, our high school football team.
As I saw it, that's exactly what was happening. We were cheering them on, encouraging them not to give up.
Please don't give up.
One day, when the fire was at 7 percent containment and the acreage burned had doubled, I went to Kohl's, one of the only retail stores in the county. The parking lot was full of squadrons of fire trucks of every shape, size and color, and from every part of the state.
A firefighter was in front of me in the checkout line. As he was purchasing his undershirts and socks, the cashier asked him if he was fighting the fire and he said yes.
The woman was garbed in stickers of different fire departments, so much so that her clothes where hidden underneath. She smiled and asked him how it was going.
"It's really big," he said.
I don't think that was the answer she wanted to hear, but she proceeded to give him 20 percent off his purchase anyway.
"Thank you for what you're doing," she said.
Though Sonora was about 30 minutes from the fire that does not mean we won't suffer. Our friend's homes are at risk. The forest that was my backyard growing up is scorched.
Lakes I backpacked to, and wildernesses I have explored via horseback are blackened. Parts of Yosemite, which greeted us for years as we entered the park, are disintegrated.
When I woke up on Monday morning and I walked out to a day eclipsed by the white smoke, my dad told me the fire is at 15 percent containment.
"That's a good start," he said.
At that time the fire had already burned 163,000 acres. I fear what a "good" finish will cost that place.
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Research shows writing letters of gratitude increases happiness and life satisfaction, decreases depressive symptoms
Steve Toepfer, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Kent State University at Salem, says he has always been interested in the power of writing. In 2007, he created an assignment in his Building Family Strength class intended to show his students that being kind to others has psychological benefits. He decided to measure these benefits in a pilot study where participants wrote letters of gratitude to determine if there are benefits in terms of well-being for the authors of the letters.
"We are always exploring methods which can improve health, but no one ever looked at a series of letters to see if it benefits the author's well-being,†Toepfer said. "We know people who receive letters of gratitude benefit, but what about the authors? Will you feel better by writing letters of gratitude? Are multiple letters better than a single composition? That's what we examined here.â€
Toepfer's latest research builds upon his previous study with a much broader sample, and those research findings are available online and will appear in the next issue of the Journal of Happiness Studies, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the scientific understanding of subjective well-being. Toepfer co-authored the paper titled "Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits†with Kelly Cichy, assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies at the university's Kent campus, and Patti Peters, lead data analyst in the Research and Evaluation Bureau at Kent State.
The study examined the effects of writing letters of gratitude on three primary qualities of well-being: happiness (positive affect), life satisfaction (cognitive evaluation) and depression (negative affect). Gratitude also was assessed. A sample of 219 undergraduate students who were relatively happy was recruited by the university's Kent, Salem and Stark campuses to participate in the study. Study participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 65 with a mean age of 25.7, filled out a battery of questionnaires about their well-being, and then they returned to the research lab three more times about a week apart. The experimental group wrote a letter of gratitude each time while the control group did not. Both groups filled out questionnaires at each visit.
"The letter writers were instructed to write a letter of gratitude to anyone they wanted, however, the letter couldn't be trivial and it couldn't be a 'thank you' note for a gift or 'thanks for saying hello to me this morning,'†Toepfer explained. "The participants had to write about something that was important to them."
"As they wrote, up to three letters, results showed increasing benefits,†Toepfer continued. "The more letter writing people did, the more they improved significantly on happiness and life satisfaction. The new and potentially important finding is that depressive symptoms decreased. By writing these letters – 15 to 20 minutes each, once a week for three weeks to different people – well-being increased significantly.â€
For the group that did not write letters but filled out the questionnaires, their well-being did not change.
"What we come away from this study is that if you are looking to increase your well-being through intentional activities, take 15 minutes three times over three weeks and write letters of gratitude to someone,†Toepfer said. "You'll feel better on those three variables. There is a cumulative effect, too. If you write over time, you'll feel happier, you'll feel more satisfied, and if you're suffering from depressive symptoms, your symptoms will decrease.â€
Toepfer said people have a store of gratitude that they carry with them all the time, and by simply using it, they can improve their well-being in significant ways.
"We have this powerful resource we're carrying with us, but we need to tap into it in order to let it work for us,†he said.
Data analysis continues as the project also examined the influence of writing letters of gratitude on family characteristics. Preliminary results indicate that writing such letters improves perceived family bonds and decreases perceived criticism from the family in the author.
To read the online article from the Journal of Happiness Studies, visit http://www.springerlink.com/content/f6t3225211776323/fulltext.html.
For more information on Kent State's Human Development and Family Studies, visit www.kent.edu/ehhs/hdfs.
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Choral composers one and all! Many of us have the desire to write, but it's hard to find dedicated time when we're not asked to juggle all the day-to-day pressing issues of life. It's difficult to take the personal time, find the quiet space, and a community of like-minded composers interested in supporting our efforts.
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