Let’s Meet at Manthan Award South Asia 2009 at New Delhi

I will be showcasing Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) at Manthan Award South sia 2009 at New Delhi. PTA is a shortlisted nominee in the categoy Mobile for Masses. So if you happen to be in New Delhi, we can meet. 

If you wish to be a part of the event, you can register at http://manthanaward.org

I have recorded some video on PTA in action on a N96 handset, to exhibit during the two days, you can find some of these at YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqW7hD7Rd3g&feature=channel 

Details are in the following:

Event Date: 18th & 19th of December
Venue:NCUI Campus,August Kranti Marg,New Delhi.

About Manthan Award South Asia 2009

Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative in India and South Asia to scout and recognise innovative ICT and digital practices and innovations in digital Content and Creativity towards digital inclusion. The 6th edition of MASA 2009 is being held in New Delhi during December 18-19, 2009 at NCUI Complex. The 2009 edition has key event verticals across all major ICT and digital inclusion for development thematic areas in the region.

Launched in 2004 by Digital Empowerment Foundation in knowledge partnership with World Summit Award,the Manthan Award has come to define the very best in digital content for development. Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, India, has been the key Government support partner.

MASA 2009 Event Verticals
Micro Summit on e-Commerce, Entrepreneurship & Livelihood Generation
Consultation on ‘Governance & Digital Constituencies
Consultation on Education & Learning
Consultation on Health, Science & Environment
Consultation on New Media & Community Broadcasting
Consultation on Mobile for Masses
IDRC India Social Science Research Conference & Award 2009
MANTHAN AWARD SOUTH ASIA 2009 AWARD GALA EVENING
SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL ICT EXHIBITION ON DIGITAL INNOVATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Categories for Award Recognition for MASA 2009
Community Broadcasting, E-Business & Commerce, E-Culture & Entertainment,
E-Education, E-Enterprise & Livelihood, E-Entertainment, E-Science & Environment,
E-Governance, E-Health, E-Inclusion, E-Learning, E-Localisation, E-News & M-Content
 
The Manthan Award Reach & Spin Offs
2007 -> 353 Nominations -> 39 Winners
2008 -> 400 Nominations -> 33 Winners
2009 -> 378 Nominations -> 45 Winners
Facilitating national digital movement through national award platforms in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2009

Pocket Travel Assistant : Photos and Details

MobileWish Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA)  is a Freeware for Flash Lite 3x enabled mobiles that offers one stop solution for all the information needs by a traveller. Name any major city/town in the world and PTA will provide every possible information for that place which will be needed by a traveler.

  PTA is basically a clever browser with some IQ, targetting all those available data needed for a traveller. PTA application has two layers. The front-end part is made with Flash Lite and uses all the native Flash Lite features of data sending/loading , images/media assets loading . It passes user inputs to the backend ASP based engine that browses internet for mining relevant data via some custom ASP APIs(for Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg etc. ), RSS /Atom feeds, Open APIs like Flickr, Google, YouTube etc. 

Here are some more details on Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) Beta version which I have submitted to Flash Lite Developer’s Challenge.

SLIDES :

MobileWish Pocket Travel Assistant — The world in your pocket (25 May 09) 

The slideshare link is http://www.slideshare.net/MobileWish/mobilewish-pocket-travel-assistant-the-world-in-your-pocket-25-may-09

 

SCREENCAST at YouTube (No audio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6cOmWEWFY

 

SCREENSHOTS/PHOTOS:

photos of PTA on a Nokia N96

Press story:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090601/jsp/nation/story_11041474.jsp

Add OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to your Flash Lite file (*.swf ) and NFL package (*.nfl ) using W’d-get-it Tool

W’d-get-it (v2) is a Freeware tool for packaging Flash Lite as Nokia s60 WRT,and NFL . This also helps in adding OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to Flash Lite swf files and NFL packages.

 

download the tool from the following location:

http://mobilewish.com/applications/wd-get-it/ 

 

 

You can follow the simple steps given below to add DRM 1.0 Forward Lock protection to your Flash Lite file (.swf) and NFL package file.

Add OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to your Flash Lite file (*.swf ) to protect it for web server delivery.

OMA DRM v1.0 Forward-lock is the simplest protection method of OMA DRM v1.0. The content is locked to a certain device. It cannot be forwarded to other devices.

W’d-get-it helps you add OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to your existing Flash Lite SWF files in a simple way.

Step 1: Select “SWF OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock Protection” from the index.

Step 2: Browse for the Flash Lite file and set the out put folder path. Now click “Build” button.

Once the build is complete you will see the message “Your Package is ready for webserver hosting”. In the output folder you will find the *.dm file with the same name as your Flash Lite File.

 

 

 

 

Add OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to your NFL package (*.nfl ) to protect it for web server delivery.

OMA DRM v1.0 Forward-lock is the simplest protection method of OMA DRM v1.0. The content is locked to a certain device. It cannot be forwarded to other devices.

NFL package format allows digital rights management (DRM) protection of IPR. W’d-get-it helps you add OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to your existing NFL package in a simple way.

Step 1: Select “SWF OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock Protection” from the index.

Step 2: Browse for the NFL package and set the out put folder path. Now click “Build” button.

Once the build is complete you will see the message “Your Package is ready for webserver hosting”. In the output folder you will find the *.dm file with the same name as your NFL File.

Flash Lite Issue in Nokia N95-3 (NAM)

While trying to submit score for playyoo game, Thomas found out an issue that in N95, the scores are not being submitted. Later he has reported a link at Playyoo to a Nokia forum discussion thread at http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119792 which makes it clear that there is  a bug in N95-3(NAM) that results in flash lite failure to load data from local as well as remote servers.