Apps developed with the Qt SDK 1.1 Beta are now being accepted into the $10 million (USD) Calling All Innovators North America contest presented by AT&T and Nokia. Qt SDK 1.1 Beta apps will be accepted into the Ovi Publish intake system, and they will receive a special acknowledgement advising that they have been received [...]

Join the Developer Economics 2011 survey and have your say on which is the best mobile platform. It’s a 10-minute online survey on the hottest issues of app development – with a chance to win a $1,500 Amazon voucher. Last year’s report was described by Robin Wauters at Tech Crunch as “the most profound I’ve read to date.” The results of this year’s survey [...]

Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity.  As each company would focus on its core competencies, the partnership would create the opportunity for rapid time to market execution.  Additionally, Nokia and Microsoft plan to work together to integrate key [...]

The Symbian Signed signing services are being migrated and taken up by Nokia Corporation. Symbian Foundation will transition from a non-profit organization to a licensing entity, which means there will be changes in the terms and conditions of the Symbian Signed service. In the context of this transition and providing the signing services by Nokia, [...]

Hendy Irawan has put up a great post on how you can sign Symbian/Qt Apps on the fly on Linux (Ubuntu) OS. With the latest version of Qt Creator 2.0+ (included in Nokia Qt SDK) you can now easily sign Qt/Symbian applications (.SIS files) with your Symbian Signed certificate and key files. The best part [...]

Nokia along with other device manufacturers have looked at ways to address the battery life consumer experience issue with push notifications and are pleased to introduce a shared-push notification service which can be enabled on 3rd party apps using the Notification API. With the service enabled, applications on Nokia devices don’t need to constantly poll [...]

People at Qt labs have worked hard to make Qt Quick development easier, productive and fun for you.  For Qt Creator 2.1 they have the following new features: A fancy Quick Editing Toolbar The toolbar makes it easier to edit properties like colors, text or gradients. A QML JS Debugger QML snippets QML code refactoring [...]

The Symbian Foundation today announced its annual event, the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 (SEE 2010), which will be held at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on the 9th and 10th November. Attendance is free and the event is open to all. To register, visit www.see2010.org. Just as Symbian has broadened its mission to driving [...]

In a new Forum Nokia podcast, Forum Nokia Champions Dale Rankine and Alessandro Pace discuss their recent experience using the new Ovi app wizard tool to create mobile apps for use on Nokia devices. The Ovi app wizard tool lets anyone even those without programming experience  create mobile apps quickly, easily, and at no cost. [...]

Qt WRT is a W3C-standards-based web runtime. The runtime is now under the Qt’s new open governance model . This is a signficication step for Web develpment because there is now a completely open mobile application development platform that requires only Web skills. We are talking about real applications on the mobile devices. From Webkit [...]

Alessandro shares with us that recent Nokia financial results pave way towards upcoming Symbian^3 devices and some OVI services numbers. Nokia Symbian^3 expect to sell 50M OVI Store 13,000 content items OVI Store 1.7 millions download per day OVI App Wizard achieved 1 million downloads OVI Maps with free navigation has been downloaded 17 million [...]

A new website for Nokia developers has recently been launched: NokiaDevs.com The website proposes conversations with Nokia developers, talking their experience and thoughts on Nokia technologies. As the website says: Nokia is open, so Nokia Devs want to be: open to any opinion, thought, vision about the present and future of mobile development. Want to [...]