Winners of Nokia's developer competition for Arabic content revealed
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-EM staff
Posted: Wed December 9, 2009 12:42 pm



Run MS Office Pro
2010 on latest Win7
Ultimate OS to
increase your
business confidence




Buy HP Pavilion
 laptop with Corsair
DDR3 RAM for
superb performance




Need a personal loan
in Dubai? Contact
Citibank UAE for all
of your banking needs

INTERNATIONAL. Winners of Nokia’s calling all innovators “Bil3arabi” 2009 contest, a developer competition for Arabic-language mobile applications, have been announced. 

The grand prize winner of US$100,000 went to “Here I am” from Enpronomics in Egypt.  It is a user-friendly, geo-presence application with personal safety features that enables users to call for help in emergencies, share their location with family, close friends and know the location of their beloved.

In second place, and winner of US$25,000 in cash, is Elmathbakh created by private developers Senai Refai and her husband Kamel Seghaier from Tunisia. 

Elmathbakh is an application that helps people keep track of their daily calorie intake. Its various features have been designed especially for Arabic diets.

“We are very excited to see the level of interest that this competition has generated since we announced it in June, demonstrating to us the great potential that this region holds in application and content development. 

The fact that this competition focused on the region and Arabic content certainly energized developers here to take part.

We saw varied levels of entries that included really great apps, some that still need work and tests, as well as documented ideas that need implementation.

I think we have created great momentum and we need to maintain it together,” said Wendy Weckstrom, Services Marketing Manager for Ovi Store, MEA.

She continued, “Congratulations to the grand and second prize winners, as well as the ones selected for Judge’s Choice for their innovative ideas that are sure to grab the attention of Nokia users in the Middle East and across the world.”

The other top 10 applications that have received the Judge’s Choice Award will get a one-year membership in Forum Nokia Launchpad, which enables members to receive access to exclusive resources and support to accelerate mobile application development and elevate developer’s business visibility in the mobile world. 

These applications are OI2ot by Inficron, Arabian HawkGood by News 4 me, AlMoosiqar by Quirkat, Yoolki, Sarhan by Good News 4 me, Messagei, Wassal  by Inficron, Moodi    by MT2, Konooz, and Frenzo.

In addition to the cash prize, the grand prize winner will receive a “spotlight” placement featuring the winning application for 4 weeks on the top page of Nokia’s Ovi Store; and paid travel to demo the winning application at a Nokia specified event. 

The winning application will also be reviewed by Nokia for possible preload on future Nokia devices.  Second place will also receive a “spotlight” placement featuring the winning application for 3 weeks on a relevant category page on Nokia’s Ovi Store.


 

 

 

MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS COMMENT & ANALYSIS

date:Posted: May 23, 2013
UAE. Stock market indices racing ahead but GDP figures do not support the euphoria and commodity outflows fuel the rally; Is there too much liquidity in the banking system?
date:Posted: May 23, 2013
UAE. While new orders continued to rise sharply, the rate of increase eased to the slowest in a year. Meanwhile, employment levels rose at the fastest pace in two years.
date:Posted: May 22, 2013
iNTERNATIONAL. Control over Homs will enable al Assad to rapidly move forces from the north to the south to meet emerging rebel threats. It will also provide a key avenue of retreat to the Alawite coast in the event that he needs to flee Damascus.



Wide selection of craft tools and coloured pencils will give more options to your creative side


Doing business in the Middle East? Your starting point is GulfTradeHolding, the Middle East Business Directory