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AAS Insight 79 - Symbian EPL, Europe and Competitions

In All About Symbian Insight 79 (AAS Podcast 141), we share news of Symbian^2's release and the first Symbian package to move from SFL to EPL. Then there's a mention of Nokia Android rumours, leading into a discussion about Maemo positioning and Qt. Finally we talk about a recent post from Robert Scoble. You can listen to AAS Insight 79 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts at 10:33 BST, Jul 14th || 9 Comments

App Stores: A Handmark perspective

Eric Pfeifer, Content Acquisition Director at Handmark provides insight into the world of application shops post Apple App Store and Ovi Store, with some interesting indication of applications and content demand from future stores.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 22:50 BST, Jul 12th || 1 Comment

Vodafone's Summer of Widgets competition

On Monday Vodafone launched its Summer of Widgets competition. Every week through out July and August Vodafone will be giving away three prize bundles (consisting of Samsung NC20 netbook and a Nokia N96) to the developers submitting the best widgets. Widgets must be developed using the Opera widget runtime for S60 and be uploaded to the Vodafone Widget Developer Platform. Read on for more.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer at 13:20 BST, Jul 8th || 0 Comments

Nokia Simplifies JavaScript for Widgets

Forum Nokia has released a beta of Nokia Platform Services 2.0, which provides a much simplified JavaScript API with which WRT widgets can use the features of Nokia S60 devices. In addition, support for use of a device’s camera has also been introduced.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 9:56 BST, Jul 7th || 1 Comment

AAS Podcast 138: Interview with Lee Williams, Symbian Foundation

In All About Symbian Podcast 138, Rafe talks to Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. The interview covers a wide range of topics, including the Symbian Foundation's planned application arena, the universal web runtime, the forthcoming Symbian Exchange and Exposition, Qt and the Symbian Foundation, the challenges of openness and open governance, and more.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Miscellaneous, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts at 20:50 BST, Jul 2nd || 5 Comments

AAS Insight 77 - Truphone, Intel, HTC Hero, Developers

In All About Symbian Insight 77 (AAS Podcast 137), there is news of Truphone's extended support for Nokia and the 5800 continues its best selling streak. Rafe talks about Nokia and Intel's strategic tie up and reports back from the launch of the HTC Hero. Ewan shares news of AdSense for applications, which leads to a general monetisation discussion. You can listen to AAS Insight 77 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Hardware, Miscellaneous, Developer, Industry, Events at 12:00 BST, Jun 29th || 3 Comments

OPL to Python does go: FuelLog and Birthdays

AAS reader, (ex-)OPL programmer and now Python developer, Martin Dehler, has released a couple of applications that have effectively made it from the Psion Series 3a (circa 1995) to modern S60 3rd Edition phones. FuelLog is shareware and is a fuel consumption tracker that records, stores, calculates and exports fueling data and fuel consumption of vehicles. Birthdays is freeware and lists birthdays from the Contacts application in chronological order. For each birthday name, date of birth, age and remaining time until the next birthday are shown.

# Posted by Steve in Software, Links of Interest, Developer at 8:17 BST, Jun 25th || 4 Comments

Calling All Innovators – A few days left to enter

Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition closes to entries on 30 June, next Tuesday, so if you have not got your entry in yet you should be getting a move on. Remember, this is not only an opportunity to win cash prizes, but also to get your application unprecedented exposure within Nokia and with Nokia device users worldwide.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 23:56 BST, Jun 23rd || 0 Comments

Dev Week: Widgets remain in the spotlight

Last week Samsung Mobile Innovator announced that the Samsung Innovation Quest 2009 would be about widgets for the home screen of the S60 based Samsung i8910 HD. Adobe also provided hints that its BrowserLab would cover mobile browsers and Digital River expanded its e-commerce offering to enable application sales to mobile devices.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 10:15 BST, Jun 22nd || 0 Comments

Five reasons why Java has already saved Nokia

It's been in every S60 phone since the first 7650 came out of Espoo... and it's still delivering for Nokia. Has Java really saved Nokia, asks Ewan Spence? From N-Gage support to bedroom coders, Ewan's clearly on a big Java high!

# Posted by Steve in Developer, Editorial Thoughts at 7:52 BST, Jun 22nd || 32 Comments

Dev Week: Widget tools, FleaC, and haptics

Dev Week is back after a couple of week’s absence and I hope to keep it truly weekly from now on (despite the best attempts of Telecom New Zealand to deprive me of an internet connection). This week: getting started with the widget development tools, changes in FleaC licensing, and a new API for haptics.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 11:00 BST, Jun 15th || 0 Comments

NAVTEQ at CommunicAsia

NAVTEQ have supplied us with a comprehensive overview of their activities at this year’s CommunicAsia show, running 16 to 19 June in Singapore. The development of location based services in and for the APAC region remains strong and NAVTEQ is hoping to capitalise on this growth with its portfolio of map data and developers tools.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 1:21 BST, Jun 12th || 1 Comment

Where Will The 2.0 Money Come From in 2009?

One of the hallmarks of web based applications in the last few years is the cost – for the most case they've been free to the users. Of course someone must pay for all the servers, coders and everything else needed to run a company. While the good times and the VC investment money flowed in, many companies have focused on growing the user base rather than build practical foundations of income. But are we in for a shock as our favourite applications start to reach into our pockets?

# Posted by Ewan in Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts at 9:21 BST, Jun 10th || 3 Comments

Nokia updates, extends WRT widget tools

Forum Nokia has announced an update to the plug-in that enables WRT widget development in Aptana Studio and added new plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio. WRT widgets are clearly seen by Nokia as a mechanism to accelerate the availability of add-on features for S60 devices. Recent news, such as the availability of a Facebook widget, suggests it may be a good strategy.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 18:11 BST, Jun 9th || 6 Comments

Forum Nokia Launches A New Series of Podcasts

Developers might like to subscribe to the new series of podcasts from Forum Nokia. The first episode is now available and Bill Volpe talks with Riku Salminen about the new tools and components available for S60 and S40 Flash Lite developers.

# Posted by Ewan in Links of Interest, Developer at 9:26 BST, Jun 4th || 3 Comments

Symbian Developer Site Now Open

Via David Cabeiro's Forum Nokia Blog and Symbian Foundation's David Wood comes the news that the Symbian Foundation Developer site is now open to all. Entry into the site currently requires registration, but the notice on the home page says that eventually the site will have complete public access. Screenshot and any comments below.

# Posted by Steve, Richard in Developer at 22:04 BST, Jun 2nd || 1 Comment

Ovi Java Applications Will Not Require Java Verified Certificate

One for the developers now, as Aleksi Uotila confirms, via the Developing on S60 blog, that Nokia will not be insisting that Java applications in the Ovi Store will require to have a Java Verified testing certificate. While it is still recommended, it is not an essential requirement - unlike signing the Java app via Verisign or Thwaite, which is required.

# Posted by Ewan in Links of Interest, Developer at 17:09 BST, Jun 2nd || 0 Comments

Symbian Foundation adds Larry Berkin and Dietmar Tallroth

Today the Symbian Foundation has announced two key additions to its management team: Larry Berkin, formerly a VP at ACCESS, who will head Symbian's US office and act as Head of Alliance Management and Dietmar Tallroth, formerly Director of Legal for Nokia's Open Source and Java, who will serve as Symbian's General Counsel. The Symbian Foundation continues to recruit staff as it grows towards it goal of around 200 employees by the end of 2009.

# Posted by Rafe in Developer, Industry at 15:08 BST, Jun 1st || 1 Comment

Calling All Innovators – The final call for entries approaches

It’s the final month before Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition closes. The competition offers a significant opportunity for developers to get global exposure for their innovative application or widget. In this developer section feature, I talk to Srikanth Raju, head of marketing for Forum Nokia, to find out more.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 22:05 BST, May 31st || 0 Comments

The Samsung i8910 HD to ship with Qt, Ruby and Python?

There's a fascinating (and welcome) post by Phil Northam over on the Symbian Foundation site talking about the new i8910^HD. Particularly interesting is the quote "the i8910^HD is packed with a host of powerful options: Qt, Python, Ruby... All these run out-of-the box without change on the i8910^HD". Good news all round, I say, though I suspect there's a degree of firmware-updating, downloadable addons and poetic license still involved. Anyone able to shed more light on this? See also Samsung's accelerating Mobile Innovator programme.

# Posted by Steve in Software, Developer at 18:07 BST, May 28th || 10 Comments