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Go UK and Take Your Mobile Business To The World – WIN A $25,000 UKTI GoUK Package!!!

For the second year running, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is running a competition to help Australian and New Zealand companies successfully set up a business in the UK.

Expand to the UK with UKTI’s Go UK competition
Around 80 Australian and New Zealand businesses expand their business presence in the UK each year, most of these with the help of UKTI, the British Government’s trade and development arm. UKTI offers personalised, professional help with everything businesses need to succeed in the UK including advice on visas, company location, tax issues, employment, banking and much more. But none of them get quite the helping hand that the Go UK competition provides.

Win Business-Blass Return Flights To The UK As Part Of A $25,000 Package Of Business Support
Three lucky Australian winners and one New Zealand winner will get return business class flights to the UK provided by British Airways as part of a business-support package worth $25,000 to help make sure their UK business will be a success.

For more information about the offering from UKTI and contact details, please see the attached presentation …

UKTI + Mobile Monday Australia = $25,000 GoUK Package & Competition

CLICK Here To Enter The Competition

GoUK Package & Competition Brought To You By:

And GoUK Sponsors:

British Airways

Kevin Beare & Co.

AMac Limited

 

BlackBerry will be a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming Planet of the Apps Conference at the Sydney Convention Centre on the Oct 27-28th.

As part of our sponsorship attendees will hear from Sarim Aziz, Team Lead, Developer Relations, Blackberry – Research in Motion speak on ‘Super Apps’: Taking it to the next level and join in the panel discussions on ‘Who owns the user experience?’ and ‘How to engage and re-engage consumers’.

BlackBerry are also hosting a FREE developer workshop on Friday 28 October 2011 from 2:30PM-4:30PM.

Attend this workshop to explore the exciting development possibilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for PlayBook. Learn how to use CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript WebWorks APIs to transform your existing web assets into a BlackBerry Super App! We’ll then show you how to take your BlackBerry WebWorks application from the BlackBerry Smartphone over to BlackBerry Playbook, leveraging common integration methods and how to implement must have application features.

To register for the FREE BlackBerry workshop, please click here

Got A Great Idea For An App To Develop? … CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO … Then Read Below About Our Developer Challenge with $$$ PRIZES!

If you are considering entering the BlackBerry Developer Challenge or even interested to see how easy it can be to take an idea and have it developed, …

>>> CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO < <<

… from Jordan Knight has had great global attention for this video and his development … NOTE: He is not a “blackberry” developer and had never developed on our platform prior.

MoMoNEWS: BlackBerry Renews Sponsorship & Launches a Developer Challenge with $$$ PRIZES!

Mobile Monday Melbourne is proud to announce that BlackBerry have extended and stepped up their annual sponsorship to our Diamond level, providing Mobile Monday Australia with funds for our national sponsorship and many new initiatives for you, our members, in the months and year ahead.

This new BlackBerry Diamond level sponsorship of Mobile Monday Australia will cover all 5 Chapters including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & our newest MoMo … Perth, meaning more mobile events for our members to attend in more cities across Australia!

BlackBerry Developer Challenge (NOV 30th, 2011)

To celebrate our new Mobile Monday Australia sponsorship with BlackBerry, we are holding a Developer Challenge for BlackBerry® Messenger with serious PRIZE MONEY!

Win prizes for developing the coolest application that connects people from within a mobile or tablet application.

Leverage RIM’s Blackberry Messenger (BBM) Social Platform APIs that are available for either Webworks or Java development platforms.

 

• FIRST PRIZE – Increased to AUD$8,000!!!
• SECOND PRIZE – AUD$4,000
• THIRD PRIZE – A BlackBerry PlayBook & Torch Smartphone

 

Terms & Conditions:

 

• Entries close 30th November
• Winners announced at the October Mobile Monday Sydney event
• Judging panel Mobile Monday Board, RIM Leadership Team
• Register interest with an email to nkennedy@rim.com with a one page summary of your application.
• Applications must be submitted to the RIM App World Storefront before 30th of November

 

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED:
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/blackberrymessenger/

INFORMATION ON APPWORLD STOREFRONT:
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/appworld/distribution.jsp

DOUBLE YOUR CHANCES TO WIN … Enter your app into the Global Developer Challenge
:
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/dev_challenge.jsp

SPREAD THE NEWS WITH FRIENDS & DEVELOPERS …

 

BlackBerry’s national endorsement of Mobile Monday is a testament to their endeavours to work closely with the local Australian mobile community by partnering with Australia’s leading mobile industry networking event, Mobile Monday.

Develop with BBM – BlackBerry® Messenger is an instant messaging app just for BlackBerry smartphone owners. With an active user base of over 45 million, BBM™ has become one of the largest mobile-centric communities in the industry. Over 2 million new users join the BBM community each month. The BBM community is very active, with over 70% of users using it daily and over 100 billion BBM messages sent every month.

Increased engagement and app stickiness: add an addicting social element to your apps by allowing users to connect with old and new friends

Increased discoverability: with over 45 million users worldwide, word about your application can travel fast in the BBM community

Increased monetization: developing apps with BBM functionality will increase engagement, discoverability and virality—all key factors for increasing revenues and profits

BBM Social Platform – Enables developers to build a whole new class of consumer and enterprise apps that leverage the power of social interactions.

The BBM Platform exposes a comprehensive suite of APIs to securely integrate with and benefit from the BBM social graph BBM data and functionality are exposed to developers Contact list, group membership, user profile Chat, file and data transfer, invitations