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The "1st BONDI Codefest" to be held...

...in the Vodafone R&D Software Lab in Huesca, Spain. This event will take place during the last week...
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Coming soon - Test your Betavine application on real mobile devices!

Betavine has partnered with Nexperience in order to enable you to test and showcase your application...
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Broadband via your mobile!

No need for a USB Dongle! Try the new broadband via your mobile software. Betavine have gone live with...
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Why not review a Betavine application?

One of the new features we added in the last release was the ability for the community to review applications....
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1/4 million and counting!

The betavine team are celebrating! In less than 1 1/2 years there have been more than 250,000 downloads...
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Betavine 2.2 released!

Today we released Betavine version 2.2. You can see some of the changes we have made on the homepage....
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Smartphone Show 21st&22nd Oct08

With less than two weeks to go have you registered for Smartphone Show or Mobile devfest? Don't forget...
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Betavine.mobi on Vodafone live! Germany

During last week we connected Vodafone Germany with our betavine.mobi service opening it up to over 34...
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Betavine 2.1 - Now with member profiles.

Today we went live with betavine.net member profiles. Member profiles allow you to describe who you are...
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Contribute to wikis!

Vodafone RnD has developed a new application that permits users to contribute to articles in wikis. You...
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Recent Posts

Management of technology research
Hi

I'm completing an MSc in Technology Management and am trying to find people to take part in my online survey about the management of maturing technologies. I', after project/programme managers or technical leads or technical managers.

Anyone on this forum interested and have the time to till it in or know who I could contact to get someone from vodafone to take part.

TIA

Jason
Jas
by Jas
2 days 15 hours 5 minutes ago
SMS Time & Date
Hi,

I am now testing my Mashup/API with the live UAID and I have a curious issue to solve.

If I use my PHP stub to call the API using curl at 13:45 I get an SMS arriving on my phone immediately but it is low down in the inbox with a time of 04:45 (9 hours earlier than it was actually sent).

I assume this might be to do with the date settings on the webservers (though I am sure my host is running on UK time).

Any ideas on how to debug this or fix it?

Thanks

Rob.
robwalsh
by robwalsh
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:55:21
RE: API & PHP
I've got it all working now and have tested with the live UAID.

robwalsh:
Hi,

I am having a similar issue in that I can generate a URL that works on an IE address bar but I cannot get file() or curl() to work in PHP.

I get a 302 Found message when I run it inside PHP.

Found
The document has moved here.

-------------------------------------------------

HTTP Server at 62.105.171.197 Port 80

Any clues?

Thanks

Rob.
robwalsh
by robwalsh
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:48:31
API & application tags
Hi,

Is there any way to obtain the current available tags using the API?

I want to use the tag filtering for the method "Find Betavine Applications" but I don't know how to obtain these tags at first to enable/disable each tag.

Regards.
lizaro
by lizaro
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:25:43
RE: API & PHP
Hi,

I am having a similar issue in that I can generate a URL that works on an IE address bar but I cannot get file() or curl() to work in PHP.

I get a 302 Found message when I run it inside PHP.

Found
The document has moved here.

-------------------------------------------------

HTTP Server at 62.105.171.197 Port 80

Any clues?

Thanks

Rob.
robwalsh
by robwalsh
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:23:27
Re: voicemail api
Thanks for the information. I look forward to the new API's.
insanek
by insanek
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:06:58
Re: voicemail api
Currently Vodafone has no such plans, we are however interested opening up APIs that will be useful to the development community. Can you expand on where your interest comes from?

REg/
REg
by REg
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:08:16
voicemail api
Hi,
Does vodafone plan to open up their voicemail services as an api, similar to how orange recently has?

-thanks
insanek
by insanek
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:13:29

Forums

Categories  »  API  »  Costs of API
Oliver

Oliver
mobinauten.de

Newbie
24/5/07 6:53 PM
Costs of API
Will the API be free of charge ?
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Webmaster

Webmaster
25/5/07 10:21 AM
RE: Costs of API as a reply to Oliver
Hi Oliver,

Usage of the Vodafone Betavine API (the first version of which will hopefully be launched in the next few weeks) will be controlled by a credit system, where credits are rewarded to users who sign up on the site.

We are looking at mechanisms to award users extra credit for certain levels of site activity. This will mean we can control the level of access without directly charging users.

Pete

Once we have launched, more information on the API will be available from the Vodafone Betavine API homepage
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riche127

riche127
Skycore

Newbie
31/5/07 5:08 AM
RE: Costs of API as a reply to Webmaster
I just read the API 'Terms and Conditions':

"Vodafone grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, royalty-free and limited licence (without the right to sub-license) to use the API for the Duration for your personal and non-commercial testing, development, use and/or evaluation of Relevant Applications"


So basically they cut out the aggregator so developers may create and test their SMS/MMS/LBS applications. My question is: When an application is ready to be commericalized... then what? How do we reach you? Will you reach out to the developer? Will this API be available 'Commerically'? Have any commerical terms been established so that a sustainable business model can be developed as well?
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Steve

Steve
Vodafone

Connoisseur

Betavine Team
31/5/07 11:55 AM
RE: Costs of API as a reply to riche127
Hi riche127,

A very good question!

Clearly, Vodafone Betavine is a non commercial website aimed to encourage collaborative innovation around mobile and web communications ... however, we do have links into the commercial departments of Vodafone.

The short answer to your question is that we are still working this out ...

The slightly longer answer is that we would like to see some tangible examples of promising applications or mashups to help work out the commercialisation path.

We would be very happy to work with you, or any other API user, on this.

Steve
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Dean

Dean

Newbie
15/6/07 2:31 PM
RE: Costs of API as a reply to Steve
Hi,

Interesting response but - not exactly very clear.

I think you should have a clear path for commercializing applications / use of the API's.

Where the exact same API's are available from the commercial side and at a known cost.

Obviously there is some gap where Vodafone will want to take on (good / interesting) projects - with an aim to profit from them (as they will do anyway).

Any comments on that?

Many thanks,
Dean Taylor
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riche127

riche127
Skycore

Newbie
3/8/07 8:57 PM
RE: Costs of API as a reply to Dean
Agreed, a clear path is needed.

We have an MMS widget built already... however I am not going to dedicate resources to integrate Bvine when other development options are much less restrictive and have a clear route to market. I would be happy to submit our MMS Widget to the Vodafone Betavine team, but I do not want to submit it to the community since we are billed per message.

How I go about doing this is unclear. What I should expect in response is unclear. If you like what you see, whats the turnaround for commericalization? Is it worth the effort at such an early stage of Bvine for the professional?
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