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The May/June 2012 issue of the Java Magazine features Nextwave in the section on ‘Java in Action’. The story, titled ‘Game On!’ discusses how Java ME is playing a major role in helping mobile app developers profit in India, one of the fastest growing economies, and the world’s second-largest mobile phone market. The article then discusses how Nextwave refocused its business growth strategy to building and marketing its own mobile apps for this vast and exploding mobile phone market.

The Millionaire League

The article also mentions the induction of Nextwave into the Nokia Millionaire League. Here’s a brief excerpt from the relevant paragraph:

“Nextwave Multimedia is a member of the Nokia Millionaire League, a select club of only 350 Nokia mobile application developers from around the world. This exclusive club is reserved for mobile app developers who have had more than 1 million downloads from Nokia’s online app store. Nextwave has had more than 25 million downloads of its mobile apps from Nokia Store.”

The article can be accessed here.

Nextwave Multimedia, declared new ‘Legends’ by Intel for the app Comics Creator.

To know more about this honour click here

We are looking for programmers with a passion for a career in 3D game development

Eligibility:
- Must be an Engineering or Science graduate
- Should have good maths skill
- Should have minimum 1 year experience in developing games with Flash ActionScript 3.0

Please email your resume to 3dgamedev@nextwavemultimedia.com

Nextwave Multimedia has won the Intel AppUp Developer Grand Prize Award in the ‘Most Innovative Application Category‘ for their app ‘Comics Creator’. This was a Global competition from Intel with more than 100 entrants. The winner was announced on 14th Feb 2011 at the ‘Mobile World Congress’ at Barcelona, and receives the Grand Prize money of $60,000.

Last year, Nextwave had won the ‘Nokia Calling All Innovators 2010′ - Grand Prize for the same app.

‘Comics Creator’ allows the user to create his or her own comic story, cartoons and photo journals by using a simple and easy to follow application. For artists it gets even better, they can upload sketches, doodles, etc, right away. The app provides the user with a large array of emotive characters, styles of illustration and dialogue box. The user can even save their favourite comic creations in the PC and share them with friends through networking sites, blogs etc.

Download the application from: http://www.appup.com/applications/publisher-Nextwave

For more information about the event check: http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/contest/intel-atom-developer-challenge-winners

The new version of Nextwave’s Comics Creator app with many new features is now up on Nokia OVI store. With new tools, this award-winning app now allows the user more control over the images. He can now manipulate colors, edit elements, and so on. Many new and varied backgrounds, characters, speech bubbles have also been added. Comics Creator 2.0 gives the user greater creative freedom. In short, he can now have more fun creating comics and sharing them with others.

Beginning 21st January 2011, Comics Creator will be featured on Nokia’s global highlights. More on that in another blog post.

Click here to view a short video on the new Comics Creator:

The ‘Economics Times’ in its issue of January 19th, 2011, carried an article titled, ‘The Great Indian Mobile App’. The article talks about the rapid growth of the mobile app market in India, and how in spite of the problems and the pitfalls, thousands of app developers are jumping on the band wagon. The article then discusses eight Indian apps that have made their presence felt. Nextwave’s ‘Comics Creator’ is one of the apps featured. Readers will recall that in September 2010, Nextwave Multimedia had won the Grand Prize in the Nokia Calling All Innovators 2010 worldwide competition for the Comics Creator app.

Comics Creator features amongst India's top eight mobile apps

Rama, the story of Ramayana, will soon be available on Nokia OVI store.

There is no other story that has enthralled and enlightened the people of India for generations as the saga of Lord Rama. Through beautiful visuals and lucid language, the legendary story of Lord Rama is now retold in the mobile comic format. Enjoy reading the sacred epic, and revel in the glory of the ancient Indian culture and wisdom.

Nextwave Multimedia has launched four illustrated stories - Rama(The story of Ramayana), The story of Gandhi, Panchatantra and Thomas Alva Edison - on www.appup.com, the Intel’s App Store. With colourful visuals and lucid language, the stories are retold in the comic format. Specially customised for the digital medium, the stories can be best enjoyed on your PCs, netbooks, and tablets.

The stories, priced at US $ 1.99 each, can be downloaded at: http://www.appup.com/applications/publisher-Nextwave

Happy reading!

Rambow Ramu, India’s first mobile comic series, has now become the second most downloaded content on Samsung India’s Java App Store.

Rambow Ramu is a comic series about the misadventures (read ‘dreams’) of a village lad, who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps to be the next ‘King Of Bollywood’. Since its launch, the comic series has been receiving an overwhelming response from readers across the world.