Mobile Content Russia

A VII international conference «Mobile content - MoCo2011» – one of the key events in mobile content industry - will take place between July 9th and 10th in Moscow. During 7 years, the Forum brings together leading companies from Russia, CIS countries, EU countries, Middle East and USA. SmsCoin project, which provides a complete platform for SMS payments implementation across almost 90 countries worldwide, performs as a sponsor of «Mobile commerce» session.

During the session the participants will discuss the expectations of mobile commerce participants regarding industry development, the characteristics of cooperation between the companies that offer mobile commerce services, legislation issues, target audience of mobile commerce services and consumption patterns, latest wireless technologies and employment perspectives within the mobile commerce industry.

Spb Software, a leading mobile software developer, joined with Spatial View Inc., a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile user interface with full navigation capabilities on Android devices. It breaks new ground in the field of truly immersive stereo 3D mobile user experiences.

This complete auto-stereoscopic 3D Android solution offers a revolutionary mobile user interface by means of an all-encompassing Home screen that houses a rich set of animated 3D widgets, a specialized collection of 3D folders and a suite of customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. The combination of elegant design and stereo 3D makes navigation effective and efficient, while emoting a feeling of immersion in the user.

HeroСraft releases Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim on Android and high-end Nokia devices. The game is licensed by original IP owner, Paradox Interactive, and designed in famous style of PC game.

HeroCraft are delighted to announce the launch this week of Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim on Android and high-end Nokia devices. Majesty, the popular PC strategy game from developers Paradox Interactive, has been painstakingly adapted to mobile devices and now offers Android and Nokia Ovi users an engaging and in depth strategy gaming experience on this platform. With its legendary indirect control system, Majesty has gained a cult following on PC and sensing its suitability to the modern high powered mobile devices, HeroCraft has been able to bring it to a wider audience.

Spb Software, a leading mobile software developer, announces the results of the seventh annual SPB Survey. This year the survey was held from November 18th till December 7th and aimed to give an overview of the latest mobile market trends, while helping in identifying changes in user profiles, mobile device expectations and the typical handset use cases. The most discussed and controversial issues in 2010 were picked to be included in the survey. The highly respected mobile market analysts Distimo and MobileSQUARED were involved in the work on the survey questions.

Spb Software, a leading mobile software developer announces the launch of SPB Online Games on iPhone. With more than 100 thousands of registered players on the network and approximately 2 million game sets played SPB Online Games became very popular among Windows Mobile users. Now iPhone owners have an opportunity to get in touch with each other through joining the community of SPB Online Games players.

SPB Online Games is a collection of four instant online games (two versions of Checkers, Hexagon, or Reversi) that improve strategic and logic skills and can be played with real people from literally anywhere in the world, in real-time. The SPB Online Games don't require any registration or configuration and each game is really easy to start: it can be launched within 30 seconds and if interrupted - continued from the spot it was left off. The profile of each user can be configured and might include the name, picture, type of handset and network). The players can share their game experience in the real-time chat service.

HeroСraft released mobile fishing sim unpretentiously called “Russian fishing”.

Light ripples on water, leisurely floating clouds and a beautiful view will take you from the stuffy, dusty city back to the heart of nature. Choose a spot for fishing, cast your rod and… feel the first bite. Use your fishing skills, make sure that your line doesn't break and the fish doesn't get off the hook!

Alawar's Farm Frenzy, developed and published by HeroСraft has been selected for Droid Gamers Android Gaming Challenge. The first in what is hoped to be many similar events worldwide.

As well as providing a free version of Farm Frenzy specifically for the contest, HeroCraft is also sponsoring the event and providing free games as prizes for various levels of winner. The full results will be announced by the end of August.

RIA Novosti has released new iPhone apps in English and French, available for free download at the App Store.

The new apps allow iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse Russian and international news, watch videos, view photos and infographics, download and email favorites.

The apps are easy to use. All content is grouped into sections, such as Politics, Economy, Culture, Sports and International News. News items are displayed as a newswire, and users can easily scroll through the headlines like through any standard iPhone list. The time and date of the latest update also are shown and users can refresh the newswire manually or set it to automatically refresh.

«RIA Novosti wants to be closer to its customers all over the world. First we released an iPhone app that allows users to access the agency’s news in Russian. Now we’re releasing versions in English and French while developing interfaces for new iPhone apps in two more languages. We are planning to expand our presence in the global media market in cooperation with the world’s leading media brands», - says Sergei Lysakov, deputy marketing director at RIA Novosti.

Opera Software today announced that MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, will now provide a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser for its subscribers, who will be able to download it on their mobile phones at mini.opera.com. Subscribers of MTS will get access to a customized Opera Mini start page when they download the browser on their mobile phones.

The start page will have default bookmarks which give MTS subscribers quick and easy access to music, videos and games as well as giving users the opportunity to purchase content directly from the browser.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Victor Saeijs' presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference. Victor Saeijs is Vice-President Sales Eurasia Nokia. Victor presents the new SDK with Ovi Maps integration for mobile developers and explains why Nokia stepped into mobile internet-based services market.

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