SIMagine 2006 Results

The Worldwide Mobile Communication & Java Card™ Developer Contest (7th edition) took place at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona (February 13-16, 2006). An international Selection Committee awarded prizes on February 14 to the eight finalists who presented their projects during the exhibition.

Gold Award

Company: EME International, Hani Samuel & Nader Iskander – Egypt

Project: m-card

The "m-card" is the secure electronic version of the traditional plastic card, implemented as JavaCardTM code on the SIM of a mobile subscriber. This virtual card on the SIM, "m-card", is usable not only in the mobile internet and PC internet worlds, without any additional hardware, but also in the traditional physical world, such as ATM machines and POS terminals through a very easy to use solution. A single SIM card can carry many m-cards. For example, a mobile subscriber can have on his SIM: two credit cards and a debit card each issued by a different financial institution, one healthcare card issued by the health ministry and an ID card issued by the state organization of the country. Each m-card remains under the sole control of its issuer, thanks to the secure m-card engine and the VISA Open Platform, GP. Finally, "m-card" is much lower in cost than the traditional plastic cards and easier to issue…the cardholder receives it in a second.

Silver Award

Company: Metasite Business Solutions – Lithuania

Project: StartDial

StartDial uses the familiar "dialing" interface to launch pre-defined mobile internet sites and VAS services, effectively creating a "speed dial" for mobile internet. With StartDial, launching wap.google.com becomes as simple as calling "#1", accessing the operator portal - calling "#0", while a temporary mobile site providing details and m-tickets for an upcoming gig can be reached by dialing "#671" - perhaps after the user notices the three digit code on an outdoor ad, TV or radio (RDS). Moreover, users are then able to store these "shortcuts to URLs" in their phonebooks and exchange them with friends. Up to 999 services can be configured by using just 3 digit StartDial shortcuts, and up to 9999 services if 4 digit shortcuts are employed. The mobile site owners only have to pre-configure a shortcut dial code using a web-based configuration tool; the configuration is then pushed to subscribers' SIM cards via OTA configuration.

Bronze Award

Company: Pine Labs - India

Project: SIM Salvage:

SIMSalvage is a Disaster Information and Management Applet that will be activated at the time of disaster and to provide the following:
• Information Broadcasting for Victims: displaying relevant information like helpline numbers, rescue shelters details etc.
• Information Broadcasting for Donors: facilitating donations by popping useful information like address where donors can send help.
• Database creation of Service Donors: creating a central database of donors (like doctors, builders, debris cleaners, clothes and food suppliers etc.). This can be made available to government and other rescue organizations like Red Cross by the operator to facilitate rescue operations by contacting relevant people (by querying the database) available in the close proximity.
• Database creation of Victims: Victims can register at a central database made available to authorities to enable them to contact victims efficiently.
• Search Donors & Victims: Database created through the applet can be queried to find relevant information.

The emergence of the information age and the sudden ubiquity of mobile technology are among the biggest stories of our time. As mobile phones make fundamental changes to the lives of everyone on the planet, they are also changing forever the way we store our personal data. Thus, every mobile phone users' biggest nightmare is having his phone fall in the wrong hands. Mobile Autocop, under the circumstances of the mobile being misplaced or stolen, prevents its misuse by blocking all the confidential data stored on the SIM from being accessed and by deactivating features like making or receiving a call and text messaging. The user just has to send a message (SMS) to his mobile phone from any other mobile in a predefined format containing a preset password. Mobile Autocop will also send the user the location of the phone and divert all calls to a preset phone number.

As mobile phones become one of the most essential ways for parents and children to communicate, it is also become an increasingly unprotected gateway. Child SIM is a parental control solution that allows parents to have control and monitoring capabilities over their children's mobile phone usage and activities. Child SIM can help parents track their children's mobile phone usage and activities such as excessive phone use or incoming text messages from strangers. The application for the younger age group allows parents to set the phone with quick dial for emergency calls to parents. Settings can also be restricted to make and receive calls or SMS messages only from approved numbers. For teenagers, Child SIM provides usage limitation and monitoring functions. The application permits password protection and identifying the location from where the child is calling

SIM BAsed solution for Device management and service configuration
The telecommunications industry is moving very quickly towards providing sophisticated data services (e.g. e-mail, instant messaging, mms, wap, push-to-talk, etc.) on a wide variety of different mobile terminals. The problem is that new phones and data services are complex to configure as well as manage. And until this complexity can be managed, customers are going to have trouble getting their services to work. Based on the innovative "SyncML - OMA Device Management" standard protocol developed within the Open Mobile Alliance, the SIMBAD solution will allow mobile operators, service providers or corporate IT departments to carry out managing/configuring mobile devices and mobile data services for end-users, helping subscribers in remote setting of parameters and values, troubleshooting servicing of terminals, installing or upgrading software

The SIM Card brings Trusted Computing into Mobile Phones
With mobile phone handset and related application growth exploding worldwide, security has become a serious concern. As forecast by most analysts, mobile phones will soon become vulnerable to viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, and malicious software, just as PCs are today. TrustedSIM provides a feasible way to integrate trusted computing into available mobile phones. At the heart of the TrustedSIM architecture is the usual GSM SIM card. No physical chip or hardware modification is required, and security restrictions are enforced by a portable, user-owned SIM. In addition to blocking malicious software and protecting user data, TrustedSIM can also be used to secure copyright-protected data (e.g. music, video, e-books, etc.) on mobile phones, providing a consistent solution for Digital Rights Management (DRM) in all mobile environments.

The Virtual Health Pet is a creature that lives inside the cell phone and interacts with its owner, acting as a care-giver that reminds the owner to take his/her medications at a particular time and assess the wellbeing of the owner, checking his/her condition. From time to time, the creature calls his/her owner asking questions or requesting some kind of interaction. If the owner fails to respond to one of these interactions, the virtual creature calls a member of the care-giving staff and/or a member of the family, alerting that the person may not be well and providing the location of the person. This way, the caregiver can act and help the person. To accomplish that, individual information, such as prescriptions and drugs taken, is stored in the Java card. This information can be very important for the physician that will provide care to the person and potentially save lives.