| UTM Wins Grand Prize RM 60000 at Maxis MCC 2009 |
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Kuala Lumpur, 19 Januari 2010 : UTM wins grand prize of RM 60000 at Maxis Mobile Content Challenge 2009 (MCC 2009). Team UTMobile comprises students Hasnol Ariff B Hussin and Muhamad Bukhairi B Samsudin and their lecturer-advisor Dr. Mohd Yazid Idris has developed a "Flyer: On-The-Fly Flash Composer and Community" (Flyer Composer). Flyer Composer is a system that enables users to create electronic Flash cards while on the go by selecting image, text, and audio through a mobile portal or Short Messaging System (SMS) request. The finished flash based mobile greeting cards will be then be delivered through Multimedia Messaging System (MMS).
However, MCC 2009 awarded prizes of RM10,000 each to three other student teams for the following categories : Mobile Entertainment - Team Genex from Universiti Sains Malaysia and Mobile Info Base - Team Vicegerent from the International Islamic University Malaysia.
MCC 2009 is a programme designed to empower young student developers to join the content developer community and foster innovation on mobile phones by introducing them to new development techniques. The programme also supports the government's MyICMS886 initiative to educate and empower young developers.
As Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said, “The current applications such as SMS, Blackberry, Yahoo Messenger, Twitter, ICQ Skype and others has made a significant in human interaction and communication.”
“Therefore, this improvement will generate on human capital development and convert the worldwide communication from depending on telephone, fax and post services.” he said. His text speech was read by Information Communications and Culture Deputy Minister Datuk Joseph Salang.
The prize giving and closing ceremony was officiated by Information Communications and Culture Deputy Minister Datuk Joseph Salang.
Also present was chief operating officer of Malaysia Commission of Multimedia and Communications Datuk Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi.
Pelajar Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Hasnol Ariff Hussin (kiri) dan |
