Aiming to induce national talent to go further in the domain of information and communication technologies to take advantage of the latest trends of converging fixed-mobile use, TMN, in partnership with SAPO, launched the ‘Developers TMN’ contest. An initiative that challenged the Portuguese developers’ and programmers’ community to make available its widgets. The winners were disclosed now.
The best mobile widgets developed by the winning candidates are available for download at TMN’s website, www.tmn.pt, and at the internetnotelemovel portal, at the TMN App Store. Among the honoured widgets, the first four in the ranking stand out for their originality and innovation:
- ‘Santa Casa SMS’ Games: with this widget, it is possible to generate numbers to bet and gamble by SMS euromillions/lotto 2/ lottery, check the credit of the Santa Casa card, among other options;
- ‘No Game’: this widget is a numeric game to fill up a nonogram as fast as possible, challenging the imagination and intelligence for enjoyable free times;
- ‘Radial Colour Z’: in this case, the challenge means testing the memory and the speed of reaction in order to memorise and recreate sequences of colourful spheres;
- ‘SMS Banking’: this widget allows accessing the respective bank, anytime any place, being enough to activate the SMS Banking functionality.
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‘Santa Casa SMS’ |
‘No Game’ |
Game ‘Radial Color Z’ |
SMS Banking |
The competitors had the opportunity of making available their widgets – applications used to adapt internet content to the operating systems of mobile phones – at website http://developers.tmn.pt/, from March to June 2009.
From hundreds of applications, the 22 best widgets were selected by a PT jury, according to criteria in terms of quality, reliability, usability, relevance of functionalities, contents and layout. The authors of the best works will receive prizes such as notebooks, electric guitars and mobile phones.
TMN and SAPO started by raising the awareness of the community of developers concerning the importance of developing widgets for mobile phones in the scope of the third edition of Sapo Codebits, which took place in December 2009. One of the novelties of this showcase of national and international talent in the domain of computing programming was precisely the opportunity given to the 650 participants present of developing applications and widgets for mobile phones and thus applying for prizes for the authors of the Best Application and of the Best Widget.
Apart from promoting the fixed-mobile convergence through the ‘Developers TMN’ contest, TMN and SAPO contribute to giving projection to the technical and creative skills of the community of Portuguese developers and programmers and promoting the appearance of new talent in the domain of information and communication technologies.
Learn more at http://developers.tmn.pt/.
