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International Jury Selects Finalists for
Gemalto SIMagine Contest
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:30am EST
Hosted by Gemalto in association with Samsung and Sun Microsystems, the tenth
edition of the SIMagine Contest rewards the most innovative projects for
wireless applications
AMSTERDAM--(Business Wire)--
The SIMagine developer contest challenges JavaTM developers worldwide to present
innovative Value Added Services for the cell phone. Expanding over the past nine
years, the SIMagine contest has become a major event in the mobile value-added
services ecosystem. As part of the 2009 SIMagine worldwide developer contest,
around 200 innovative entries in the field of wireless applications were
evaluated by a selection committee composed of international members. The eight
finalist projects from all over the world are now selected, and their teams
invited to present to the public and to an international jury at the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona.
This year`s edition is again strongly themed around two technologies where the
SIM card enables very innovative services: Near Field Communication (NFC) and
Smart Card Web Server (SCWS).
The exceptional prizes - over 60,000 euros plus the supply of valuable
development resources and marketing support to bring the winning ideas to market
- attract entries from mobile service specialists, application developers and
students from all over the world. Building on the high performance Java Card
engine for SIM cards which has contributed to the success of Gemalto, the
SIMagine developers, mobile operators and service providers take advantage of
its powerful popular multi-application capability to quickly deploy value-added
services, add new revenue opportunities, increase subscribers` loyalty and
continuously develop their customer base. The wide proliferation of Sun
Microsystems Java Card platform and Java development tools mean that such
applications and services may be rapidly developed, tested and deployed
worldwide.
"Through this contest, Gemalto is proud to bring forward-thinking ideas and
intuitive insights to the market, and make the most creative wireless services
quickly available to operators and subscribers, "stated Philippe Vallée,
Executive Vice President, Telecom, Gemalto. "The SIMagine contest continues to
catalyze innovative ideas from all over the world, leveraging SIM capabilities
while meeting operators and subscribers demand."
"Sun is pleased to sponsor this prestigious contest which brings together Java
Developers from around the world with their innovative ideas," said David
Bryant, Senior Director of Marketing, Client Software Products. "The
interoperability and success of Sun's Java Card platform open up these
applications to world-wide deployment."
The eight finalists are the following:
APiCARDIO - APIILINX (France)
The goal of the application itself is to monitor patients anytime, anywhere with
regards to physiological parameters needed to prevent cardiac heart failures,
diabetes side effects and obesity. Data is transferred to the SIM card from an
external on-body sensor and results are formatted and displayed using the SCWS.
This application is useful for self monitoring using the mobile phone.
BioXpress - Precise Biometrics AB (Sweden)
BioXpress enables the implementation of an electronic ticket in a mobile phone
SIM card, leveraging notably NFC and SCWS technologies. The solution enables
remote, web-based registration of the user`s fingerprints, as well as ticket
purchase. It features the Match-On-Card technology for identity verification at
border crossings based on fingerprint check.
iCanSee - Rhodes University (South Africa)
iCanSee is a Smart Card Web Server (SCWS) based application, developed
particularly for the visually impaired community and provides a web-based front
end to the four most frequently used text-based communication tools on a mobile
phone: the phone book, SMS, MMS and email. iCanSee allows users to create their
own profiles, supporting changes to: background and foreground color (for
contrast), font size and font color.
KONNEXSIM -Scientific Engineering Services Ltd (Greece)
KONNEXSIM is an application that uses the KNX open-standard, the standard for
home automation, to create a link between a SIM card and any KNX connected
device. This can be a heater, air-conditioning, lights, alarms, or shutters.
KONNEXSIM turns the mobile phone into the remote control of the system, both
locally through Bluetooth and from a distance, through SMS or the Internet,
leveraging the strong security level of the SIM card.
SIMail -FH Hagenberg (Austria)
SIMail is a device independent application to administrate business tasks, like
mails and calendar events. As it runs directly on the SIM card the Communicator
is always on. The "Push-mail" or "Exchange" functionality thus does not depend
on the mobile device, but on the SIM card.
SSA (SIM Single Authenticator) - University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
This application allows introducing user's credentials (e.g. username and
password) associated to web services in a secure way. The data is stored on the
SIM so that in subsequent occasions, the application can automatically provide
the credentials on behalf of the user to the web sites and will present a web
application with the relevant information about these sites.
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