GLOBAL – Symbian Horizon is a new application-publishing program previewed today by the folks at The Symbian Foundation. The program, set for release in October is designed to make publishing applications to Symbian platforms faster and easier for developers. Symbian Horizon also sports a range of support services to smooth the way for introducing applications.
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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!
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>>
LONDON, England – In the words of the peeps from the Symbian Foundation, things are developing nicely over there. Although a new website is currently being built, the team have put together a blog to keep everyone informed of what’s happening. The new site promises to be be comprehensive when it goes live at symbian.org (the original symbianfoundation.org URL will redirect to the new site). Until that happens, the blog will be the primary source of news and info about the Foundation’s activities. Membership documentation is also available from the old Symbian site, for those who want to join up.
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LONDON, England – Early on the morning of June 26 this year I got a call. “Be at Somerset House first thing, there’s a big announcement happening”. What’s this, a new phone? A new service? No, something much bigger, and infinitely more significant. Nokia’s decision, along with the other interested parties to package up Symbian into a single foundation and make it open source. Throwing the baby out with the bath-water? Unlikely, that doesn’t happen at this level. Exciting stuff indeed.
INTERNATIONAL – Since news broke of the new Symbian Foundation flames of speculation have been burning across the web with talk of Symbian combining with Android. Of course, any significant announcement such as this is a tasty subject for the rumour mill to sink its teeth into, however Nokia has released an official statement that slices through the speculation and delivers clarity on the situation. Read on…
ESPOO, Finland – We asked a colleague, Janne Jalkanen, about the Symbian deal. He not only has experience with the inner workings of S60 in Nokia, but he was the creator of JSPwiki, a popular open source Java-based wiki sofware.
GLOBAL – Nokia’s chief development officer is one Mary McDowell. She’s pretty involved in the whole Symbian Foundation thing and recently found time to talk to RCRWireless news about the recent announcement. Mary offers a pretty interesting perspective and the interview is well
worth a couple of minutes of your time.
ESPOO, Finland – I’ve not been able to do a link round up in the past few days. Did you notice? Do you like these round-ups?
In any case, I managed to get online today for a quick fix of info from around the neighborhood. I’m in a punchy mood, so certain things stood out. What I have for you today is a Retro Phone, a Car Phone, an Open Phone, and a Journo Phone. Intrigued? Then read on.
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