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New Symbian Partner Network to fuel development on Symbian OS
Symbian Limited today announced the launch of its new, world-class partner program, Symbian Partner Network (SPN). This program will enable members to innovate more easily, collaborate more closely with the Symbian ecosystem and accelerate developments with Symbian OS™, ultimately enabling the industry to succeed.
Run Google Android on a N810 Internet tablet
You might have been playing with Android before and seen it running on some hardware... Not me as we decided to focus on iPhone development and have to drop off a bit of Linux for now (just having one brain is not enough to play with all these new exciting OSes). Thus I don't want to bother with Linux kernel recompiling and all the other burden with Linux porting. However, it looks like the latest release of Android can be installed quite easily on a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
Does unification of S60 and UIQ mean disparition of UIQ ?
Following the announcement of Symbian Foundation this morning and the probable acquisition of Symbian Ltd by Nokia, BLT.se now reports that UIQ has plan to layoff more than 50% of its staff (200 out of 375 people)... does this mean that S60 is about to become the "unified platform" ?
Nokia to buy Symbian and turn it into a unified open-source platform through Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS™, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations. This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development. Plans for the Foundation have already received wide support from other industry leaders.
Symbian celebrates ten years of success
Symbian, the market leading open operating system for mobile phones, today celebrates its ten year anniversary and marks the start of the most significant transformation of the company since it was founded, with the announcement of the Symbian Foundation.
Performance Tuning of Code
If an application runs and performs all required task for the user or client, doesn’t means that it is complete in all the sense. Using performance analysis tools like profiler we can find out how our application is performing internally means in terms of speed, memory usage and power utilization. There are lots of issues which can reduce performance of your application; and here is a list of some of them
Open-C Technology update
S60 is making it easier for software developers to reuse open source and other existing code, with the release of Open C++. Open C++ expands on the existing Open C offering by adding a new set of platform-independent C++ libraries (STL, RGA, etc...) to the S60 C++ SDK. In addition to the opportunities for code reuse, Open C++ also provides an easy way for any C or C++ developer to participate in mobile development projects using their existing skills, or, in some cases, create complete applications using platform-independent C++.
New UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer plug-in for Carbide
The new UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer is a plug-in for Carbide which allows you to take a snapshot of you current UIQ 3 SDK installation and compare any changes made to it over time... A useful feature to cleanup your installation between projects and/or identify specific files you use for your development!
New "Symbian Ready" program promotes quality ecosystem products
LONDON, United Kingdom – 29 April 2008 – Symbian Limited, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, today launched the ‘Symbian Ready’ technology validation program. Symbian Ready ensures that Symbian customers, the market leading handset manufacturers, benefit from the highest quality ecosystem solutions and that the ecosystem partners have the opportunity to showcase the quality of its solutions to key decision makers in the mobile space.
Mobile Developer Days 2008
After the initial event being held successfully in Aalborg, the event is addressing again developers of mobile applications and devices. The main idea of the MDD event is to create a platform where developers, network operators, service providers, and mobile manufactures can exchange their ideas and visions in the field of mobile communication.
Penrillian uSTL now supports Series 60 3rd Edition
Penrillian has recently released an enhanced version of its popular uSTL library for Symbian
OS C++. This is great news for the developer community as it now supports both Series 60
Edition 3 and UIQ devices. The latest release also offers additional features and a more
complete set of STL functionality
BitRabbit announce RabbitFactory middleware version 2.0
Dublin, Ireland – April 17th 2008 - BitRabbit is proud to announce the availability of version 2.0 of its RabbitFactory middleware for all native smartphone and PDA platforms. The RabbitFactory is a full-featured, cross-platform, highly-optimized set of C++ APIs which provide a complete abstraction of native mobile platforms, offering extremely fast development and deployment processes.
Creating a UI library: Approach and Solution
When a programmer gets a task of writing UI Library; normally what a programmer does is, at maximum think and finalize about some basic classes and the final UI interface. While creating UI library we should think in all aspects including its development and its future usage by other applications...