Win a Sony Ericsson Xperia arc phone by just submitting an idea for a mobile app that can help solve global challenges

The countdown is running for the expiration of the deadline for the second stage of the "Technology for Good Apps Competition" organized by Sony Ericsson. All you have to do is to present a problem and a use case (scenario) where your idea for an app will help to solve global challenges in two key areas:
a) social and economic development
b) energy and climate change

The submission date is Monday, December 5th, 2011, by midnight Pacific Time and the prizes to be won are a Sony Ericsson Xperia arc phone and a Connect-to-Learn scholarship for a secondary school education will be given to a girl living in Sub-Saharan Africa in the winning team’s name.

Winners will be announced on the EAA website on December 16th.

You can read more at their website here.

Creating a superb User Experience with Series 40 Web Apps (Session 1 & 2)

Nokia is offering a webinar on "Creating a superb User Experience with Series 40 Web Apps" on the 30th of November, 2011. This webinar will introduce the concepts behind the Nokia Browser for Series 40 that developers and designers need to know to effectively create a good user experience. In the session, the new Nokia Web Tools 1.5 will be utilized and the new features in the release will be covered. Programming topics in this webinar will be confined to HTML/Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and an introduction to Mobile Web Library (MWL); the 1 December webinars will address more-technical programming aspects.

Date: 30 November
Time: 8 a.m. Helsinki, 10 a.m. Moscow, 2 p.m. Beijing (Session 1)
           9 a.m. San Francisco, noon New York, 5 p.m. London, 7 p.m. Helsinki (Session 2)

Sign up now! Attend the session and discover how to receive a free Nokia C3 touch and type phone.