Deadline for submission of entries is January 11, 2010.

Manny Fernando, President of MegaMobile gave an overview and said that there are rich opportunities for Value Added Services (VAS) in the mobile industry. According to Manny,  mobile VAS  accounted for 5.0B in 2008, roughly 3% of wireless revenues. (In the Philippines, the wireless market is a P154B industry. Currently there are 65 M registered subscribers in the country). For mobile developers, Manny identified several key considerations to success, namely: handset support considerations, diversity to suit all market segments and ease and relevance of the proposition.  It is also important to be
creative in the crafting of business models since not all applications will be successful.
 
Gabby Dizon, President, Games Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) and Ranulf Goss, Owner of Slycesoft Games Development and incoming GDAP President  invited mobile developers present to seek them out for assistance if they want to develop mobile applications under the Games and Entertainment category. Sherwin Sowy, of
GlobeLabs and a developer himself of iPhone applications gave participants some mobile application ideas.  These include:  information & services applications or applications that provide intuitive and easy to use interfaces to one or more popular informational or transactional services (e.g., applications for enterprise information and services), location
based and location dependent services (eg. Social applications), music and entertainment (eg, wallpaper, ringtone, ringback tone, video content catalog browser) and productivity applications (conversion utilities, online/offline calendars/to-do lists)
 
AyalaTBI’s TechBootCamp Director, Dickie Gonzalez, discussed competition mechanics and other guidelines. At the end of the Forum, five (5) Globe Tatoo Kits were raffled off to attendees who registered to be part of the online community of www.mobilextreme.ph.
 
Deadline for submission of entries is January 11, 2010.