Kings of Convenience – Samsung and BlueVia work together

Today we are pleased to announce that the Korean King of consumer electronics Samsung will be the first OEM to integrate directly with our billing capabilities via the BlueVia payment APIs.  The global agreement allows Samsung Hub and Samsung Apps’ customers to purchase apps and music, video, books, games and learning services from their devices by simply charging the payment to their phone bill or prepaid credit, avoiding the need for a credit card. The agreement covers both Samsung tablets and mobile devices.

The ease and convenience of direct to bill payments has been shown to increase sales of digital content through mobile devices. This is especially the case in the developing world where the penetration of credit cards and even bank accounts is low.

BlueVia is committed to making operator billing available for its customers across as many devices and platforms as possible. The agreement with Samsung joins other similar agreements with companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

“Samsung is committed to ensuring that our customers have choice and convenience when purchasing content on our devices,” said Lee Epting, Vice President of Media Solutions Centre Europe for Samsung Electronics Europe. “Our partnership with Telefónica Digital allows us to deliver yet another easy and convenient purchasing experience to our Samsung Hub and Samsung Apps customers.”

We echo your sentiments Samsung, making payments easier for the customer is what it’s all about.

Arduino GSM Playground 29th April at Telefonica Digital!

Dan talking about the new Arduino GSM shield


Last month Arduino launched a new GSM shield in partnership with Telefonica. The aim of the GSM shield is to power the next wave of the Internet of Things, by enabling truly mobile prototypes. We’re really excited by the GSM shield and from the feedback online we know you are too, in fact Christian Krmec got in touch to tell us about what he has been doing Christian recently purchased a GSM shield and following Dan’s instructions has created a GSM enabled temperature sensor:

I built a simple  temperature sensor with LM34CZ precision Fahrenheit temperature sensor with Arduino Uno,Gsm shield and send information to Cosm.I modified the code CosmTempSensor2.ino connectioInterval = 900000 I added 500 milliseconds.The results can be seen below and here:https://cosm.com/feeds/8526 (sensor_reading) where you can get an updated feed and graph of the temperature in my living room.

Christian Krmec has created a GSM Temperature sensor

We love to see the community using the shield, if you’ve made something tweet it to our twitter account and we’ll feature it on the blog! Speaking of community, we’ve been working hard both online and in person to raise awareness of Arduino’s awesome new GSM shield, last week we demoed the shield  at the Internet of Things London meetup and today we’re happy to announce our next event - the Arduino GSM Playground!

The Arduino GSM Playground all is about spending some quality time with the GSM Shield, learning how to make  cool GSM enabled hacks and of course eating some pizza! We’ll have experts from o2 Labs, BlueVia and maybe even Arduino themselves, so you’ll be able to find answers from to all your Arduino questions!

Places are limited to just 30 for this event to ensure everyone gets hands on time with the shields, so you need to be quick, you can sign up on eventbrite!

 

Windows 8 Developers Workshop: Madrid April 16th

Our good friends at Movilforum together with Microsoft and Qualcomm, invite you to be part of the new wave of mobility by attending the Windows 8 Developers Workshop!.

Learn how to make apps in Windows 8, experiment with the wealth of new APIs for developing modern applications.
Discover the different elements of user experience and design principles used in new modern style applications for both consumer and Business apps in Windows 8.
Acquire knowledge of how Microsoft development tools increase the productivity of developers and integrate seamlessly into agile development models.
Differentiate your app with AllJoyn for P2P-based communications and make your app more creative AR apps with Vuforia.

Details:

• Madrid_ April 16, 2013. From 10.00 to 14.00.
• Microsoft Ibérica (Paseo del Club Deportivo, 1 – Centro Empresarial La Finca-Building 1-28223 Exeter-Madrid)

AGENDA

10.00: Introduction Microsoft and Movilforum
10.05: User Experience in Windows 8 applications for developers, Jesus Serrano
11.02 Coffee Break
11.30: Modern Application Development UI for Windows 8 – Boris Armenta
12.30: Development Tools for Application Modernization Gomez-Javier Lozano
13.30: Unique mobile experiences with AR and proximity comms Grabiel Treiband (Qualcomm)

To attend this event you have to register at: http://movilforum.com/windows8/

Developer Economics 2013 Survey out now!

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Digital Wallet Foundry

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Digital Wallet Foundry: This Monday @ModernJago

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