After a suspense-filled delay due to the volcano, the SIMagine contest’s winners have been announced this evening at SIMposium event in Rome. The organizer SIMalliance, the partners Sophia-Antipolis, Samsung and Oracle|Sun and the sponsors Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia, are proud to have awarded €150,000 worth of prizes.
The most innovative, usable, well designed and [...]

The 6 winners will be announced during the Awards Ceremony on June 30th. They will also have the opportunity to demo their projects to the SIMposium attendees (June 30th-July 1st).
More information: Heading to the awards ceremony!

The 10 finalist teams now make a final effort to present the most competitive project at the final Award ceremony. Held at SIMposium in Rome on April 20th (www.simposiumglobal.com), the final award phase will be lead by a judging panel composed of 12 members,

A new SIMagine Workshop dedicated to the 10 finalist teams was held on March 17th via a webinar. The teams were given an overview on how to seek financing and on intellectual property tips.

The organizer SIMalliance, the partners Team Côte d’Azur, Samsung and Oracle | Sun and the sponsors Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia have officially announced the 10 Nominees for the final award phase at Mobile World Congress. Out of 103 competing projects coming from 35 countries, the Nominees are:

After being presented trends and challenges of the 2010 Mobile Market, the SIMagine Nominees will discuss the technical side of their project with SIMagine mobile operators partners. Opportunities on the market, technical aspects to improve, strengths and weaknesses… will be addressed.

During two days, the 52 pre-selected candidates have been trained on how to develop SIM applications and how to conceive a Business Plan. The training session was held in Sophia-Antipolis. Program, presentations and webcast of the two days available in one click. Train yourself to SIMagine!

For this 2010 edition, the SIMagine Pre-selection Committee have pre-selected 52 candidates out of 103 projects submitted. Coming from 35 countries, two categories of contestants were accepted:
- any engineering school, university and business school or school
- any individual or company specialized in telecommunications and/or Java language, software houses, integrator, mobile content and/or service provider.