During last week we connected Vodafone Germany with our betavine.mobi service opening it up to over 34 million mobile users!

The betavine.mobi homepage will be displayed from the Vodafone Live! page following the success of the Spanish trial which introduced in excess of 16million users.






Already in the last few days we have seen significant increases in user registrations and downloads!

We welcome our new users to our community and look forward to lively discussions!

Today we went live with betavine.net member profiles. Member profiles allow you to describe who you are and what you are interested. It also allows you to link to social network sites. Don't worry, we're not trying to be yet another social network.

You can try creating a member profile by logging-in and using the 'My Betavine' link at the top right of the page. Once here you can edit your details:



Every betavine member has two profiles, a public one and a private one. We understand that you don't want all of your information public, so we've added some privacy controls.



As I mentioned earlier you can also link to your profile to a social network site. Try pasting the URL of your del.icio.us bookmark site or public Facebook page into the social networking section.



You can also include a short description about yourself.



Whenever you make a forum post or blog comment to betavine a link to your member profile is displayed. Why not have a look at my member profile

Have fun playing with your member profiles!

Vodafone RnD has developed a new application that permits users to contribute to articles in wikis. You can view and edit articles, and also upload photos from your device. Try this application on Betavine and contribute to this open source project over at the Forge.

The Betavine team will buying everyone dinner on Saturday night, at the 3rd annual BarCampBrigton on the 6th and 7th of September.

Find out more

Vodafone R&D and “Instrumentación y Componentes (Inycom)”, an Aragon-based Technological company have just released a SIP Stack for mobile devices which performs for you the 3GPP procedures for registering, instant messaging and other services, read more here. It exposes the IMS functionality by a high level API, hiding the technology complexity and enabling you to develop 3rd party IMS applications in an easy way. You can either view the project page on Betavine or the actual developer project over at the Forge.