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BREW News - Volume 3, Number 1

> Register Now and Save for BREW 2003
> Developer Awards Call for Entries
> What's New on the Developer Extranet
> New BREW Extensions Now Available
> Game Developers - Register Your Wireless Games with Wireless Gaming Review
> Mobile Entertainment Summit at 2003 CTIA
> Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Moviles Joint Venture to Launch BREW Services in Latin America in March

Register Now and Save! BREW 2003 Developers Conference

Register now for the BREW 2003 Developers Conference in San Diego, California, on April 28-30, and take advantage of the special Early Bird price of $399. The BREW 2003 Developers Conference is the most comprehensive source of BREW expertise you will find. The conference is filled with compelling technical and business conference tracks that will inform and inspire with expert insight. You'll also hear success stories from BREW veterans and learn what it takes to get applications up and running with the BREW operators around the world.

The BREW Developers Conference is quickly becoming one of the most talked about events for developers and publishers in the wireless industry. This is the conference you cannot afford to miss - not just for the three days of exclusive networking or an opportunity to attend BREWFest - but to find out how BREW is enabling developers and publishers to make money in the wireless world.

The Early Bird deadline is Monday, March 24, 2003. After the Early Bird deadline, conference registration will be $599.

Developer Awards Call for Entries

Attention developers! You are invited to nominate your most compelling applications for the BREW 2003 Developer Awards. The awards recognize outstanding commercially available BREW applications in six different categories. Award winning applications will represent the best of BREW and will be honored in front of industry peers at the BREW 2003 Developers Conference. In addition to receiving prizes, winners will also have promotional opportunities during and after the event. Call for entries deadline is February 28th.

Application categories include Best Productivity Application, Best Entertainment Application, Best Game Application, Best Location-Based Service Application, Best Communications Application and Best Extension/Technology Application.

What's New on the Developer Extranet

With the roll out of the latest release of the BREW Distribution System, you will find many improvements on the BREW Developer Extranet including more robust searching capabilities, intuitive price plan changes and key additions to the accessible reports. These enhancements are part of our continued effort to create a more user-friendly and intuitive experience in addition to helping you be successful developing and managing BREW applications.

What's New
General User Interface Enhancements

More robust search capabilities
Supported Platforms column added

Changes to Price Plan Pages

New price plan filter capabilities
All price plans are operator-specific
Enhancements to pricing templates
Price plan usage status

Changes to Reports

Key enhancements to the Application Usage Report
Key enhancements to the Operator Billing Report
Key enhancements to the Payment Detail Query

To check out these latest enhancements, click here. (Authenticated developers only.)

New BREW Extensions Now Available

Qualcomm is pleased to announce the availability of the following BREW extensions: the M7Challenge by M7 Networks, the XML Parser by Reaxion and the TruVideo Player by TruVideo. The M7 Challenge is a BREW extension with an accompanying hosted server infrastructure that can be leveraged to catalog user information and maintain player scores for BREW games. The XML parser for BREW provides developers with easy-to-use method that is not resource intensive to parse XML data from local or network storage. TruVideo's BREW extension decodes a Truvideo compressed video bit stream for display on Motorola T-720 handsets. As such, it can be used in any application for BREW-enabled phones that requires video playback and compression. The M7 Challenge and XML Parser are now available on the Developer Extranet and the TruVideo Player will be soon.

M7 Challenge for BREW by M7 Networks
The M7 Challenge is a BREW extension with an accompanying hosted server infrastructure that can be leveraged to catalog user information and maintain player scores for BREW games. By adding this feature to current and future applications, BREW game developers can make the game more attractive as gamers can compete with other players for the highest scores.

The M7 Challenge enables BREW game players to submit scores and retrieve the latest high scores via an HTTP connection. The information submitted to the extension and M7's High Score application server, includes user ID (i.e., user chosen identification string), game name, phone number (to distinguish between users who select the same user ID), score and game developer (to distinguish between two developers of the same game name/type).

XML Parser for BREW by Reaxion
The XML parser for BREW provides developers with easy-to-use method to parse XML data from local or network storage that is not resource intensive. The XML parser enables applications that will read structured data from network or local storage and that need access to web contents, corporate data, web services, or any other XML documents. Reaxion's BREW XML is SAX2 compatible and allows the processing of BREW specific I/O structures such as files, streams and memory blocks.

TruVideo Player by TruVideo
TruVideo's BREW extension decodes a Truvideo compressed video bit stream for display on Motorola T720 handsets. As such, it can be used in any application for Brew enabled phones that requires video playback and compression. These include, video-enabling MMS applications, game development, streaming pre-recordedor live content, home and business remote surveillance, mobile access to traffic cameras, and video shorts. Truvideo's proprietary, patented video compression technology scales from bit rates as low as 5 kilo bits per second to as high as 1 mega bits per second, and features high image quality and frame rates at low bit rates and low-power devices, typical of mobile applications. Truvideo's solutuions have been tested in live web cam and file streaming applications over both IS-95 and 1XRTT networks. Truvideo's extension will soon be available on other cell phones besides Motorola T20.

About BREW Extensions
BREW extensions are enabling technologies developed by independent software vendors to help facilitate rapid development of BREW applications. A BREW Extension is not used as a standalone application, and is not specifically purchased, downloaded, or deleted by a device user. Rather, these functions are handled within the context of the application that uses the extension. Examples of BREW extensions are JAVA virtual machines, video players, game engines, etc. BREW provides the ability to manage and monetize BREW extensions. For more information about BREW extensions, please contact brew-extensions@qualcomm.com. Public extensions are available for review by all Authorized BREW Developers via the BREW Developer Extranet.

About M7 Networks
M7 Networks Inc. (M7) offers infrastructure and services to wireless operators and developers which enhance functionality of BREW applications and drive mobile data usage. M7 infrastructure is comprised of gateways and technologies that deliver SMS functionality and IP network connectivity in a scaleable and reliable manner. M7 also develops, enhances and manages extensions based on the BREW platform and hosts BREW developer servers. For more information, please contact info@m7networks.com.

About Reaxion
Reaxion Corp. develops and markets software solutions that allow wireless operators, handset manufactures and network operators to provide business, entertainment and communication services to users of mobile devices. For more information, brew@reaxion.com.

About TruVideo
TruVideo offers video compression, delivery and playback software solutions for the mobile market. Truvideo offers a range of mobile video solutions from encoding and delivery to server based video on demand, to on-device storage and playback. Its award-winning, patented technology has evolved from years of academic research at U.C. Berkeley. For more information about TruVideo, please visit www.truvideo.com, or send email to info@truvideo.com.

To view the available list of extensions, click here. (authenticated developers only)

Game Developers - Register Your Wireless Games with Wireless Gaming Review

Get your games in front of millions of consumers and industry players - for FREE! Take advantage of a great marketing opportunity and register your wireless games in Wireless Gaming Review's game database. WGR is the online source that's dedicated to bringing news, reviews, previews and interviews to mobile gamers everywhere.

The process is quick and easy - and did we mention FREE? Once you register, you can access the database and post all of your new games, enter descriptions, upload screenshots, movies, demos and more.

Mobile Entertainment Summit at 2003 CTIA

If you missed the inaugural Mobile Entertainment Summit at CTIA in Las Vegas this past October, you don't want to make the same mistake again. The event was a tremendous success, bringing together the most influential and respected leaders in the mobile entertainment industry. Hear the latest news, tips and tricks and buzz on the hottest segments in wireless today - entertainment content, games, ringtones.

MobileTech Forum is once again hosting what's sure to be the most talked about event at CTIA Wireless 2003 on March 16 in New Orleans - the Mobile Entertainment Summit. Keynotes, panels and demonstrations at the summit will feature information on the latest and greatest for entertainment on mobile devices: games, music, text, MMS, advertising, MIDI ring tones, downloadable icons, streaming video, high-speed rich content delivery and much more. Learn more about the latest business models and hear first hand strategies from Sega, HP, Jamdat Mobile, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, Disney and many more. View agenda at http://www.mobiletechforum.com/who.htm or call (310) 815-3884. Tickets are $325 and you can register at http://www.ctia.org/.

iWireless World: Call for Speakers
MobileTech Forum is now accepting speaker submissions for the third annual iWireless World held in Los Angeles on Aug. 4-5. The conference will address mobile applications, enterprise solutions, commerce and technology. To submit speakers and view agenda please visit: www.mobiletechforum.com or call (310) 815-3884. View last year's program at www.iWirelessWorld.com.

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Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Moviles Joint Venture to Launch BREW Services in Latin America in March

The cellular operators that form the joint venture between Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Moviles in Brazil, with more than 16.8 million subscribers, have signed a definitive agreement for the commercial launch of BREW services. The joint venture plans to roll out applications and services based on the BREW on its high-speed data network in March.

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