Developer Garden Newsletter | September 2009
Here is the September edition of the Developer Garden newsletter.
Enjoy reading it!
Your Developer Garden
Your opinion counts: MMS API for sending images and videos?
You can already use the Send SMS service to dispatch short text messages to mobile or fixed networks. But what is the story with MMS? Can files, photos and videos be sent simultaneously from the network to multiple individuals?
What do you think about an interface for multimedia messages that you can use for your applications? You may even have ideas for innovative business models that can be delivered using an MMS service?
We are eager to hear your suggestions.
Let us know what you think—the forum gives you every chance to share your thoughts!
New service: New light version of Conference Call
Now you can save yourself a lot of money with our new Conference Call Light service: for audio conferences with up to five participants, the new service is cheaper than Conference Call. As with Conference Call, charges are per participant and minute.
For further information about Conference Call Light, go here.
Sub-accounts: extra flexibility for your account
The Developer Garden now enables you to create as many sub-accounts as you want apart from your main account. With this new function you can manage your projects to suit your needs and keep an eye on everything. You are free to rename your sub-accounts, top them up individually and activate or deactivate them as you need. If you deactivate one, you do not lose your points - they automatically go into your main account and are available to you there!
You can also transfer your credits between the different accounts. If one account is in need of a couple of points, you do not need to top it up immediately - you can just fetch the credit from a different account.
An overview of all your accounts with their current status and credit balance means that you will never lose track of anything.
Want to create a couple of sub-accounts right now? Log in here.
Use the new Ruby SDK!
In the past there have been many requests for a Ruby SDK to access Deutsche Telekom services. Now Developer Garden also has an SDK for the Ruby on Rails community!
While it is true that you have previously been able to use the SOAP interface to integrate the services into Rails applications, the release of the Ruby SDK has made it far more easy. As always, you can find the detailed documentation for all the services and how to use them in Developer Garden Documentation.
We would also like to once again recommend to you the forum, where we are happy to chat and answer your queries, and where you can share your practical experiences with others in the community.
Deutsche Telekom developer competition for interactive television launched - EUR 110,000 in prizes and a trip to Las Vegas for the winners!
Hey, developers! The future of television lies in your hands! Deutsche Telekom's Interactive TV Award is entering its next phase.
And in the battle for the generous prize money you now have greater professional flexibility. The 2009 Award has two strands, so that purely innovative ideas are accepted as well as articles technically aimed at Entertain‘s new, more flexible IPTV platform. In the Developer Garden, the Interactive TV Award has its own forum where keen developers can share their ideas and get up-to-date information.
Taking part in the Award is genuinely worthwhile - EUR 110,000 in prize money awaits the best entries. The winners in the technical category will also get to spend four days in Silicon Valley in April 2010 and present their plan on the Microsoft stand at the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
Furthermore, Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft are, of course, on the lookout for future partners in projects relating to the interactive television of the future, and there is the prospect of them piloting your idea.
So what are you waiting for? Register and join in!
For more details about the Award, go to the ITVA website.
And this will take you straight to the Developer Garden ITV Award area.
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