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Symbian^4, Orbit and the compatibility break
In the last few days there has been considerable comment, in various media channels, on some of the changes that are set to be introduced with the Symbian^4 release, including the breaking of backwards compatibility due to the retirement of AVKON and introduction of Orbit, which we first reported on back in May. With Symbian starting the process of communicating the changes to developers, and with renewed discussion online, it is worth revisiting the subject. Read on for further details.
Elements points the way forward for applications
Offscreen Technology have just released a touch enabled version of Elements, their periodic table application (it's available in the Ovi Store). Making best use of the letterbox screen size of the 5800, the app presents the always useful periodic table of elements, nicely colour coded to keep elemental groupings together, as well as allowing you to tap through on each element to gain additional information.
AAS Insight 81 - Ovi Files, Layer in Google Maps and more
In All About Symbian Insight 81 (AAS Podcast 143), we share the news that Ovi Files is now free to use and talk about its potential uses. We follow up with discussion of the latest Google software updates, the most notable being the addition of Layers to Google Maps. There's comment on Apple's recent result, Accenture acquisition of Nokia's Symbain Professional Service unit and answers to some listener questions. You can listen to AAS Insight 81 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
Accenture buys Symbian Professional Services group: It’s not just about Symbian
Candid insight is hard to obtain during the initial phases of an acquisition. Accenture’s purchase of the Symbian Professional Services group from Nokia is no exception. However, a little digging does indicate that from Accenture’s perspective this deal is about more than gaining access to Symbian skills. Read on.
Nokia to acquire cellity for social address book expertise
Nokia today announced that it is acquiring certain assets of cellity, a small privately owned mobile software company. cellity's current services, which are focused around managing and syncing contacts between different web services, will not be transferred to Nokia; rather Nokia will acquire the cellity team to strengthen its own 'competencies in the area of social networking'. Read on for more.
AAS Insight 80 - Symbian Horizon, Nokia Surge and more
In All About Symbian Insight 80 (AAS Podcast 142), we discuss Nokia's Q2 results and the announcement of the Nokia Surge. We follow up with news of Symbian's Horizon program, before talking about the latest set of software updates for the N97. Finally we answer some questions from our listeners. You can listen to AAS Insight 80 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
Accenture to acquire Nokia's Symbian Professional Services unit
Last Friday, Nokia and Accenture announced that they had entered in to an agreement for Accenture to acquire Nokia's Symbian Professional Services unit, which is 'responsible for Symbian OS customer engineering and customer support'. Effectively, the unit provides technical expertise, in the form of a service consultancy, to companies from across the ecosystem: mobile operators, silicon vendors and device manufacturers. Read on for more.
Over The Air mobile Development Conference Announced
Following a successful event in 2008 (see our report here), Vodafone's Betavine labs have announced another Over The Air event, to take place on the 25th and 26th of September at Imperial College, London. Betavine will be joined by Lonely Planet and OMTP to present the 24 hour hacking and coding event, where new ideas are presented in the first few sessions and everyone else starts a single day burst of coding to present their ideas and hacks.
Tomi gives Forbes a good rollicking
You've got to love a good Tomi T Ahonen rant. Fired up by a ridiculous piece by Forbes magazine, Tomi launches into a lengthy, enthusiastic, occasionally unbalanced and gratuitously violent rant against the piece's author and in defense of Nokia as an innovator in the mobile world. Like all Tomi pieces, it's long, so grab a coffee and sit back while he slams punch after punch into Forbes' so-called journalists. Note: it's not an anti-Apple rant - it's a rant against the US-centric media who, seemingly, haven't got a clue about the wider mobile world picture.
Symbian Horizon - application-publishing, reduces route-to-market barriers
The Symbian Foundation today announced the first details of Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program, which aims to reduce the barriers developers face when taking their products to market and thus increase the profitability of creating Symbian applications. Symbian Horizon will place applications in a number of partner app stores including Nokia's Ovi Store, Samsung's Application Store and AT&T's MEdia Mall, effectively acting as an application publisher on behalf of developers.
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