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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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