New Mobile Application For Public Transport In Sofia

The Sirma Mobile software company which is part of Sirma Group Holding announced a new mobile application enabling users to receive real time information about the location, distance and direction to the busstops in Sofia, as well as the traveling schedule of buses, trams and trolleybuses. The program is called "Sofspirka and is based on the emerging mobile platform Android. Sirma Mobile's team will soon create versions for other most popular mobile operating systems. The application uses GPS for determining the exact location of users and receives information from a Sirma Mobile's server about the location of stops and buses. The company will participate with "Sofspirka" at the M-Tel contest for Android - based applications with local function. "Sirma Mobile vision is to use fast emerging platforms for developing mobile applications in order to create services with a significant positive effect on the society. Our aim is not simply to make attractive applications, but applications which can improve our life, save time or provide useful information for a large number of Bulgarian consumers. Therefore after we created the first Bulgarian mobile solution to improve communication in schools today we launch an application which informs citizens for the best traveling options with public transport in real-time” - stated Momchil Zarev, Head of Sirma Mobile. According to him "Sofspirka” is particularly relevant given the big traffic jams in the capital and the lack of updated information on bus arrivals, and because of the frequent changes in busstop locations and the routes of buses and trams in recent months. "As an European capital Sofia is now an international destination for tourism and conferences. Daily hundreds of people from all parts of Bulgaria and other countries arrive here and we have to put more efforts for their comfort and notification when using urban transport infrastructure. With Sofspirka we answer the need for easy to use application which can help even foreigners who step for the first time in our capital to intuitively find the nearest bus, trolleybus and tram stops and check for oncoming vehicles - said Anton Gavrailov, Sirma Mobile's manager.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Thu, 17 Jun 2010
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A new software solution by Sirma Mobile for connecting teachers, school parents and students

A new software solution called Zvanche is connecting school parents with teachers and students at eleven Bulgarian schools. The tool has been developed by the software company Sirma Mobile, a part of Sirma Group, in partnership with Ministry of Education and Science. It is based on the company`s technology of sending mass massages that can be used successfully in a wide range of public and business spheres. Zvanche is designed to meet the needs of the schools and allowed an intelligently organization of the contacts according to specific cases, as well as it is easy to use from non-specialists.

“The investments in education are investments in the future of our society and I am certain that the creation of new and effective communicative network between teachers, students and school parents increasing the chances for our country to take its place in the forthcoming economy of knowledge. Over the last months our team has been working hard for the realization of this initiative and we are delighted that the platform has been accepted exceptionally positive by all participants in the educational process during the pilot projects”, said Sirma Mobile`s Manager Anton Gavrailov.

Zvanche is a web-based tool that delivers text messages to mobile phones and it is optimized for work within educational institutions. The system is assigned to meet the necessity for an intensive and qualitative interaction and facilitating the communication by notifications on such issues like events, emergency cases, absence of school, school grades, etc. Up to the moment there are over 17 000 registered recipients of messages and 448 users (teachers). Since the end of last year till now over 81 000 messages have been sent via Zvanche.

“When we decided to introduce the system we have been led by our necessity of a quick and reliable communication by accessible tool. Zvanche offers an easy and affordable interface and the teachers are working smoothly with it. At the same time, they are saving expenses, because they used to send messages from their personal mobile phones in such cases. The school parents are pleased to receive information about everything which is important in the school life of their children, directly on their mobile phones. The respect for students` rights required to discuss the individual problems in private and Zvanche helps us to arrange meetings with the school parents”, said Valentina Velkova, 32nd School`s assistant-director.

The project in the metropolitan school is realized for less than a week after collecting necessary database. With the decision tool the directors and class teachers are able to send text messages to all of 1850 students at 32nd School and their parents. Zvanche helps teachers to inform parents for the students` absence and problems, important events and emergency cases. The contacts are organized according to the school process and the messages could be send to groups of recipients, or a particular student and parent alike.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 27 Apr 2010
tags: sirma mobile, Zvanche, mobile platform, mobile school service

Sirma Mobile signed a partnership agreement with Motorola

Sirma Mobile (http://www.sirmamobile.com/), a Bulgarian company for mobile applications and technologies development has entered into a partnership agreement with Motorola Inc. The partnership agreement was signed on 01st of February 2010 and Sirma Mobile received the status of a Global Independent Software Provider. The objectives of this partnership, unique for Bulgaria and the region of South East Europe are to create solutions to enable independent SW developers to explore applications and services for the Motorola iSIM platform.

"This partnership is of great importance for Sirma Mobile. Motorola is not only one of the leading brands in the telecom industry. It is a company with a significant presence with more than 80 years of successful history of innovations like the first radio communications, first cellular communications network and nowadays plays a key role in the development of the telecom sector – specified the Director of Business Development at Sirma Mobile, Mr. Anton Gavrilov - "The partnership is even more valuable, because it is related to one of the most perspective fields such as developing solutions for Motorola iSIM platform.“

The iSIM platform as believed by many, has the potential to change the mobile telecommunications sector in the near future. It enables the interface of software applications on the subscriber's SIM card. It will allow the subscribers of various mobile phones models to use new applications for mobile payments, parental control, mobile commerce, secure authorizations, business to business communication, transport services and etc. Sirma Mobile is developing a solution, which will facilitate the creation of iSIM applications from third parties allowing wider development community contribution to the iSIM technology market popularization. “We are very pleased, that our Team will have the chance to participate in such a revolutionary project, which we believe will soon significantly enhance the mobile phones capabilities and features”, added Mr. Gavrilov.

Sirma Mobile is already a development partner of Bipper Communications AS – one of the first and most successful applications for parental control based on iSIM platform. The parental control application is a web based interface allowing parents to control mobile phone use and location of their children. The platform is enabled through a miniature SIM card-sized device, installed in the mobile phone and a web interface for settings synchronization. Bipper Communications AS is an exciting example of future innovation and creativity, addressing large market demand. “The technology is unique for many European countries. It is a model of a technological partnership with a significant social impact.”, Mr. Gavrilov affirmed.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
tags: sirma mobile, motorola, iSIM, mobile communications, mobile services, mobile applications

Texthopper school edition launch

Texthopper is a web based group messaging productivity tool, developed by Sirma mobile. Initially we were looking for a solution, which had to be in favor of the communication between schools, students and parents. We figured this is important for the positive society environment we all inhabit and decided to contribute the best way we can.

Within time Texthopper possibilities inspired us to develop a platform, successfully applicable for a variety of use cases. However, we didn’t lose our focus on Texthopper School Edition.
Texthopper School Edition enables the opening of a new communication channel between teachers, student and parents. Notifications about school events and meetings, emergency situations, test evaluations and all else, concerning the process of effective education, are easy to be broadcasted.

Working with Texthopper school edition means to be able to:
• Broadcasttext messages fast
• Organize contacts clever
• Focus your campaigns: target the recipients precisely
• Get everything done in few clicks

On 6th of November the school edition of the web based group messaging productivity tool was presented on a Bulgarian national educational conference. More than 100 schools were introduced to the possibilities of the communication solution. Many of them got inspired with the option to communicate more efficiently with students and parents and decided to implement the pilot version of Texthopper School Edition.
The pilot of Texthopper School edition is already a fact. One of the biggest schools in Sofia has the possibility to communicate with its more than 1600 students and their parents with the efforts of few clicks.

We, at Sirma Mobile, are confident, that Texthopper school edition is applicable for all types of educational institutions – from kindergartens, trough high schools to collages, professional institutes and universities.

Posted by Anton Gavrailov on Tue, 17 Nov 2009
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MobileMonday Sofia

MobileMonday is the biggest global mobile community. It has been founded in Helsinki, Finland in the autumn 2000 and the most appropriate day for the event was a Monday. The organization was named after the week day of its foundation and after its core purpose: to gather mobile industry visionaries, developers and thought leaders and to encourage them to work side by side in order to bridge the gap between local and global mobile industries. Nowadays the organization is represented in more than 60 countries and Bulgaria is one of them.

The local representation is MobileMonday Sofia. The main event, which it organizes, is MoMo ant it is about to happen for second time around in early September 2009. The first MoMo was surprisingly successful and people from Mobile Monday Sofia are optimistic about this edition as well.

The event has an open forum format and everyone, interested in mobile industry, development of applications for mobile devises and etc is welcome. If an interesting, innovative and original idea, relevant to mobile industry world has occurred to you – MoMo is the place to present it.

Stay tuned for details about where and according to what criteria you could share your creative thoughts. Keep in mind that the best idea is going to be reworded with a great prize – Nokia 5800.

Posted by Momchill Zarev on Thu, 27 Aug 2009
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