Inviting you to the challenge : Global Developer Challenge

Taking submissions now until August 31st!

We invite you to explore your creativity in developing one-of-a-kind bada applications, and take a chance at winning various cash prizes. The Global Developer Challenge is going on right now, and you have many opportunities to win when you enter your application. With $2,700,000 in cash and prizes waiting to be won, the total prize pool is bigger than ever!

The registration and submission has already started and will continue until August 31st, enough time for you to start developing your application if you haven’t already. There are many prize categories in which you can win, including the Samsung bada Champion, category winners, and special winners. Our 24 category winners are in 8 categories with 3 winners per category. If a category has few entries, you might want to take advantage of that for a better chance at winning.

Please visit our Global Developer Challenge site for more details.
Click on register to start your bada journey!

	■ Schedules Registration and Submission: until August 31, 2010 Simulator Phase Winner Announcement: September 16, 2010 Device Phase Submission: until October 23, 2010 Final Winner Announcement: November 16, 2010 * For more details visit the site GDC > Schedules
	■ Prizes Samsung bada Champion: 300,000 USD Category winners: 100,000 USD (first place) * For more details visit the site GDC > Prizes

This is a Challenge that you just can’t lose! Challenge yourself in the bright blue ocean of bada.

Download free “Introduction to bada – A Developer’s Guide” e-book

"Introduction to bada – A Developer´s Guide" FREE Download!

Free bada developer e-book now ready to download!

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, today proudly announced that "Introduction to bada – A Developer´s Guide" is now available to download free of charge at the following site

www.wiley.com/go/bada

This e-book is essential reading for anyone developing with bada, with even experienced developers able to learn a trick or two from the many recipes providing useful code snippets.

We will release the e-book in four parts over the course of a month. It is a preview of the print publication, which will be available in September 2010. The print book will be an extended version covering even more recipes.

You can register to buy the full paperback version as soon as it is released via Amazon by clicking here

So come along and join us as we dive into bada!

bada is a service oriented platform

The emergence of mobile platforms has brought about the proliferation of a tremendous number of mobile applications. Still applications running in a standalone mode are popular, while the number of software as a service (SaaS) applications is not insignificant.

What is the definition of “service” in the context of a service oriented application?

It may differ depending on the situation. However, we refer to those retrieving, processing, and delivering well-tailored information specifically as users want.

Samsung bada is committed to be a service oriented platform. In other words, bada is the one that talks to various services, not the applications. Developers are free from having to learn how to bind services with their applications in service-specific manner. What you need to do as a developer is to simply use the services in the bada API, then bada automagically does all the work on behalf of you. Moreover, our bada development team has optimized service-to-bada platform connections, thereby ensuring a better user-experience in terms of performance and reliability.

Especially we are focusing on social network features with our global SNS partners: Facebook, My Space, and Twitter*. Local SNSs are also important to us and we are looking for prospective partner companies.

Such ready-to-use service integration is enabled by the bada server cloud in the back end. Samsung has invested extensive resources in building the servers. We also have prepared a rich, developer-friendly environment and support system for bada developers. In brief, bada aims to be a pioneering service oriented platform giving better user-experiences to customers, simplifying the development process for developers, and increasing the revenue of the service providers.

More interesting service features that bada provides are to be introduced soon.
* Listed in alphabetical order.