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Following the closure of AppSelect last year, we have now concluded activities related to the shutdown of this service. As a result, the SIS upload portal has been closed and will no longer be accessible.

Vodafone will continue to offer opportunities to developers to monetise their applications through services like the Vodafone Payment API and promotion via our distribution channels. Please continue to check on this website for the latest news and new exciting opportunities.

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You might have heard us talking recently about Rich Communications Suite / joyn and hopefully you’re as excited as we are about this innovative technology! And the fantastic news is that our friends at GSMA are running the joyn Innovation Challenge which is an initiative to encourage innovation based on joyn. Here’s what the GSMA have to say about the challenge,

The challenge will stimulate mobile and web app developers and technology innovators to build on the core capabilities of joyn (Contact management, Chat and File Share) and explore ideas for new and attractive services.

Developers are invited to ...

Update (16th October 2012) - AppSelect will close on 21st November 2012.

In light of the number and variety of application stores already available to our customers, Vodafone has been reviewing its own AppSelect service. The review has now concluded and Vodafone has decided to phase out AppSelect by 31 January 2013 at the latest, as its customers are already well-served by existing application stores. Other Vodafone content services will not be affected and our Emerging Market Apps Store is still accepting applications.

Vodafone will continue to offer opportunities to developers to monetise their applications through services like charge to bill ...

11:00 CET - Maintenance successfully completed

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 10:00 (CET) 30th August 2012.
Expected time offline will be a couple of hours. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

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

Over the coming weeks we’ll be making a number of changes to the Vodafone Apps Publication Platform. These changes will be related to the following:

• A new improved, streamlined publication platform including a new front-end for developers, updates to your reporting, device configuration and front-end user management.
• The introduction of charge to bill in-app billing which introduces new opportunities for you to monetise your apps, including micro transactions and demo versions.

To operationally manage these changes the Publication Platform will be taken offline from 3rd September 2012 until late October 2012. During this period you will be able to ...

Following on from the recent series regarding Machine 2 Machine, Nicholas Herriot, Solutions Architect, Vodafone Group R&D gives us an overview of how you can apply M2M to everyday applications.

Only 4 weeks ago I made a short presentation about how easy it was to create a door controller using prototyping embedded controllers.
Within the R&D department our bunch of cables and controllers did not quite galvanise and enthuse with the possibilities of such a system. We decided to create a real miniature door complete with Yale lock, controller, solenoid, modem and software. Our crazy door has gone ...

Vodafone India has signed up with Vserv.mobi to provide App Monetization to its developer partners.

Vserv.mobi is a leading Global Mobile Ad Network with strong presence in emerging markets. Vserv's pioneering technology AppWrapper powers One Click App Monetisation for 10000+ Apps across Android, WP7 & J2ME platforms. The AppWrapper is the World’s Simplest App Monetization - it enables premium advertising & innovative pricing models on any app, without coding, in just one click.

Dippak Khurana, Co-Founder and CEO, Vserv.mobi said “AppWrapper is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables both - free and paid App Monetisation models in One Click, without ...

Following on from the great success of last year's competition the Vodafone Foundation has today launched the Smart Accessibility Awards, 2012. The competition calls for developers across Europe to design smartphone applications which take into consideration the needs of older people and people with disabilities.

The Smart Accessibility Awards are part of the Vodafone Foundation’s ‘Mobile for Good’ programme which supports initiatives around the world which use mobile technology to drive positive social change.  This year, the Vodafone Spain Foundation is running the pan-European competition, and will host the final in early December. 

The awards are supported and ...

We're in the middle of a number of upgrades to our App publishing system and as a result we are currently unable to display information about your app downloads / sales at our publishing system.

We will be releasing a new reporting system in the coming weeks.
In the interim you can continue to see the download statistics for your apps (within app details in My Content).
You will also be able to see your reports via email for chargeable apps.

Reports are sent to the email address you indicated when you submitted your finance registration form.
If any of ...