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UPDATE: 19th February - The Vodafone Private handset Cloud Service is back up and online now.

We are planning scheduled maintenance to the Vodafone Private handset Cloud Service (http://developer.vodafone.com/develop-apps/test/) and as a result the platform will be taken offline from 10:00 (GMT) Saturday 18^th February 2012. Expected time offline will be approximately 24 hours, we will post an update as soon as the platform is back online. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for looking to test your apps with Vodafone, and for your continued support!

UPDATE: 31st January (09:30 GMT) - The Vodafone Apps Publishing Platform is back up and online now.

We are planning scheduled maintenance to our Apps Publishing Platform (http://developer.vodafone.com/upload) and as a result the platform will be taken offline from 08:00 (CET) 31st January 2012. Expected time offline will be a couple of hours and we will post an update as soon as the platform is back online. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for looking to distribute your apps with Vodafone, and for your continued support!

The Vodafone R&D group is engaged in several W3C working groups in order to standardize different web related technologies so as to make the web a first-class platform for developing rich applications, with access to device capabilities, amongst other things and in a way which is interoperable amongst browsers and devices. One of the APIs being worked on is the Geolocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html), and with this survey, we would like to gather your feedback as a developer and user in order to make this API better for you.

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Creating an app that looks good, works for the most possible customers and is easy to find, can seem like a challenge. When in fact it really doesn’t need to be, especially as sometimes the best recipes for success are surprisingly simple.

And to make it life easier for you we’re here to help with some straightforward tips and advice in the following articles:

The look of your app is important

For users, it's the first quality indicator they see. Attractive design, clear and effective layouts that feel optimal on the user's device, and high quality ...

Yesterday members from Vodafone developer (yours truly @johnwyer) and the Vodafone Content Services team (Gareth Williams, Erin Ericson, Glenn Millard and Mike Eaton) cycled from Newbury (home of Vodafone UK) to Paddington (Vodafone group headquarters) to raise funds for ‘Vodafone Moyo Challenge’.

The 'Vodafone Moyo Challenge' aims to raise £7m across the Vodafone universe & is aiming to eradicate obstetric fistula from Tanzania by 2016, improving the lives of 31,000 women. Moyo means heart, courage and passion. 

After a rather early start, and with the cold wind of December chilling us to the bone, we plugged our way east along ...

Following the recent update to our publishing platform we have now introduced a number of new features and functionality for you. The update includes adding the ability for you create Deep links and Universal IDs (also known as UNIVIDS), and an improved reporting system, find out more below,

Deep links and Universal IDs

Deep links and Universal IDs (also known as UNIVIDS) allow you to link directly to your apps that you have uploaded to Vodafone AppSelect from a web page, a banner or even directly from an Android app. These give you the flexibility to create campaigns that not ...

Last night we were delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards at a ceremony attended by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.

See the winners video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59FziRk0bU

The competition opened in June and after a number of judging rounds the final four winners were decided by a panel consisting of representatives from Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone Group Services Limited, Guardian Media Group plc the European Disability Forum and AGE Platform Europe.

The mobile internet is central to the daily ...

It's been an incredibly exciting year for us, and now as the year draws to a close, we thought we would update you on some key dates over the next month.

1.  Publishing platform planned downtime.
We are doing the last upgrade for the year on our publishing platform. This will result in the platform being unavailable on the 6th December from 18h00 to 00h00 CET, so make sure you plan your publications either before or after that time!

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