Nokia has announced a series of new initiatives to assist Indian application developers tap global revenue-generating opportunities at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference ’09, held in Bangalore. Nokia has also announced funding for four multi screen infotainment applications, viz., Bollywood Hungama, Eros Bollywood, India Today and Aaj Tak Videos, created by Indian developer companies and content aggregators, under the joint Open Screen Project Fund with Adobe in the first phase of selection.
Furthermore, Nokia has announced the global release of a new software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 mass market mobile devices, providing application developers with new tools to create unique applications and services for the high-volume feature phone market worldwide.
“Mobile users everywhere are consuming more and more content daily. Considering that the next billion mobile users will be from the emerging markets like India, our developers have the opportunity to not only shape local and global consumer mobile experiences but also lead the mobile applications ecosystem,” said D. Shivakumar, Vice-President & Managing Director, Nokia India. “Nokia India continues to invest heavily in its Services strategy and we encourage the 180,000 local Forum Nokia developer members to leverage off our investments and the market opportunity to innovate and create new revenue opportunities for themselves.”
The Forum also became a platform for the Indian developer community to view the latest Linux-based Maemo 5 OS that will help deliver a true PC like experience that was showcased by Nokia. Nokia believes that the next evolution of software will expand across platforms, providing applications for multiple platforms and devices from a single source code base, based on common skills and tools.
The Developer Conference was attended by 650 developers from across India and featured sessions from a host of Nokia and industry experts.
