By JBC on 12 May 2009
ESPOO, Finland - Nokia, Technopolis and Tekes have got together to give unused ideas and innovations a new lease of life. The Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill will take ideas and innovations that are no longer required by Nokia and make them available to companies across Finland who may be able to turn them into world-class products and services. The idea is to match ideas with businesses that can make them happen. Working alongside Nokia on the initiative is Technopolis, one of Europe’s largest science and technology park chains, and Tekes, the Finnish agency for funding technology and innovation.
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By JBC on 11 May 2009
MONACO, Monte Carlo – Last week we brought you a selection of videos from the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. Benoit Schillings and Thiago Macieira from Qt software gave us some insight into how they’ve been providing developer tools to create new apps for S60. We’ve now got the second part of their interview where they reveal some interesting stuff about what’s coming up in future versions of Qt. Right now developers can use the developer version of Qt for S60 to create mobile apps. Soon though, developers will be able to use the main version of Qt, which will enable them to easily recompile an application created for the desktop, or another mobile platform, to work on S60. They’ll also be able to combine the best of C++ and DHTML to create mixed applications. This will break down the barriers between traditional applications and widgets, making the former a better, and lighter, user experience and making the latter even more engaging and compelling. For users, that means an even wider range of apps and widgets, with potentially previously unthought of functionality. Exciting times ahead then! Check out the two video interviews with Benoit and Thiago after the jump.
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By JBC on 08 May 2009
MONACO, Monte Carlo – Continuing yesterday’s collection of videos from the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit, held last week in Monaco, where James Etheridge got to speak to some interesting industry folks involved in creating the software we all use. Forum Nokia has been increasing its role in software development over the past couple of years and Pekka Pohjakallio talks about what it means to developers, and why publishing software to Ovi Store is a good thing for all involved. He highlights having access to 50 million devices from launch, as being a pretty powerful incentive for developers to get involved.
James also caught up with Benoit Schillings and Thiago Macieira from Qt (pronounced ‘cute’) software about the platform that enables developers to create applications for multiple operating systems, without having to redevelop the software each time. We have the first video with these two today, but we’ll be back Monday with the second as these guys have some interesting stuff to reveal.
Finally, we have David Rivas VP Nokia who looks after software at Nokia. He reveals some interesting stuff, including Nokia’s background in software, why it’s important, what’s happening with Symbian and most interestingly his prediction that Symbian will soon support multiple processors. Enjoy the show(s) after the jump!
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By JBC on 07 May 2009
MONACO, Monte Carlo – The inaugural Nokia Developer Summit, held last week in Monaco, turned out to be a huge success. The Conversations cameras were on hand to capture all the action and we’ve got a feast of footage for you to work through. We’re posting the first videos today, with more to follow tomorrow – well, we don’t want to overfeed you, do we. First up James Etheridge gives us an overview of the Summit, before sitting down individually with Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation and Petro Soininen, chief engineer for web technologies at Nokia. Lee gives us an update on the Symbian Foundation, confirming that we’re on track to see the first release of the open source version of Symbian by the middle of next year. Petro takes us through Widgets, what they’re made of, what they do and which one is his current favourite. Check the videos out after the jump: Continue reading>>
By JBC on 28 April 2009
MONTE CARLO, Monaco – The inaugural Nokia Developer Summit kicked off in Monaco today with a host of announcements designed to make it even easier for developers to extend the functionality of Nokia devices. Alongside news of a new Nokia N97 SDK (Software Development Kit), come the first five applications to receive funding from the Nokia and Adobe Open Screen Project Fund, an update from Aptana and an N97 Widget competition. Full details on all these after the jump.
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By Mike on 24 April 2009
GLOBAL – This month the Nokia Research Center (NRC) released its first newsletter, entitled Open Threads.
Tucked away on the NRC site, you might’ve missed it (it nearly ducked our radar), but thankfully it didn’t dodge our keen eye for must-read Nokia tales, as it gives a great insight into some of the smart stories of Open Innovation at NRC and the developments and people involved in fascinating projects going on behind the scenes in Nokia’s research division. Topics such as professors striving to bend batteries, the evolution of a slick new Chinese messaging tool dubbed Stroke++, a concept called face sketching and loads more.
Read on for more on these highlights and click through download the entire Open Threads newsletter from NRC – it’s definitely worth a read.
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By Mike on 22 April 2009
HOLLYWOOD, USA – Nokia Research Center has been exploring and developing the concept of Augmented Reality (AR) for over a year now, with much of the initial groundwork done at NRC Palo Alto (watch an early video demo here). In November 2008, Nokia opened a new NRC lab in Hollywood – Augmented Reality is one of the key areas of research at the California based center. Accelerating the development of Augmented Reality, today Nokia announced that the University of Southern California (USC) is collaborating with NRC Hollywood, with the first project being the advancement of this exciting realm of research.
Read on for more on the development of Augmented Reality and what you can expect to see to see come out of this fresh collaboration between NRC Hollywood and the academic experts at USC.
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By JBC on 01 April 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – If you’re a developer waiting to get your software and content on the Ovi Store, then you’ll be pleased to know that not only can you start publishing now, but Nokia’s also put together a video walkthrough, to take you through the process. The store is due to go live in May but it’s accepting content from today so registered publishers will be able to start uploading their apps.
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By JBC on 18 March 2009
GLOBAL – The much anticipated Firefox Mobile, AKA Fennec, has had its first beta release on the Nokia N810. And boy is it something. Packing plenty of familiar Firefox functionality, Fennec is already impressive, even though it’s only at beta 1. This release is designed for testing purposes only, according to the Mozilla site, and aims to get wider feedback on the user experience, get developer feedback and encourage existing add-on developers to port existing Firefox add-ons to Fennec – yep, Fennec supports add-ons.
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By Mike on 18 March 2009
ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has officially inked the Nokia Developer Summit 2009 into the diary, reserving 28-29 April for the event which will be held this year in Monaco, with the upcoming Ovi Store taking the lead role. Of course, the vast majority of us here aren’t mobile app developers, but this event remains a significant talking point because the Nokia Developer Summit 2009 will play host to a heap of new innovations and open interesting new avenues for mobile engagement, with the ultimate benefit being that many of these exciting new approaches could soon come to life on our existing handsets via the Ovi Store (and certainly upcoming app-happy devices such as the Nokia N97).
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ESPOO, Finland - Nokia, Technopolis and Tekes have got together to give unused ideas and innovations a new lease of life. The Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill will take ideas and innovations that are no longer required by Nokia and make them available to companies across Finland who may be able to turn them into world-class products and services. The idea is to match ideas with businesses that can make them happen. Working alongside Nokia on the initiative is Technopolis, one of Europe’s largest science and technology park chains, and Tekes, the Finnish agency for funding technology and innovation.
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