Contest winners in 17 categories will receive $10 million (USD) in cash, devices, and marketing prizes. But hurry: The deadline for contest entries has been extended to 31 March. Find out more, and enter the Calling All Innovators North America contest today.

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 will be freely available in Q2, so be sure to have your opinion count by taking the short survey now before the 31 March deadline.

Under the proposed partnership:

- Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.

- Nokia would help drive the future of Windows Phone.  Nokia would contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies.

- Nokia and Microsoft would closely collaborate on joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap to align on the future evolution of mobile products.

- Bing would power Nokia’s search services across Nokia devices and services, giving customers access to Bing’s next generation search capabilities.  Microsoft adCenter would provide search advertising services on Nokia’s line of devices and services.

- Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft’s mapping services.   For example, Maps would be integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter advertising platform to form a unique local search and advertising experience

- Nokia’s extensive operator billing agreements would make it easier for consumers to purchase Nokia Windows Phone services in countries where credit-card use is low.

- Microsoft development tools would be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s global reach.

- Nokia’s content and application store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for a more compelling consumer experience.

In the context of this transition and providing the signing services by Nokia, new service terms and privacy policy shall apply to your use of the Symbian Signed services. To continue using these services, you need to accept the new terms by 28 February 2011.

You can do this by logging into your account at the Symbian Signed website, and Accepting the new service terms and privacy policy.

NOTE: If you do not accept the new terms by 28 February 2011, you will not be able to use the Symbian Signed service.

Additionally Nokia is continuing the development work of Symbian Signed started by Symbian Foundation. It is anticipated that these changes will be completed during the second quarter of 2011. More information will be shared once it becomes available.

The Process is as follows:

To build a Qt/Symbian application on Linux and also sign the generated SIS file with your developer certificate and key, first you must install the Nokia Qt SDK Remote Compiler.

Open your Qt/Symbian project, go to Projects facet and add “Remote compiler” configuration.

Under Build Steps, expand “Compile at Server” details and you will see Sis Type and Symbian Signing settings.

There you only need to specify certificate file, certificate key file, and password/passphrase (if any).

As a bonus, you can not only sign the SIS file, but also automatically package it with Nokia Smart Installer!
Therefore, your Qt and Qt Mobility application now complies with Ovi Publish requirements and can be published to the Nokia Ovi Store!

All the necessary documentation, libraries and emulator are available on the Forum Nokia Project site. You need to log in to access the project. This plug-in is compatible with the current Nokia Qt SDK 1.0

Check out the latest Web Seminar tutorial or White Paper to learn more about the Notifications API and visit the project site to get your own copy of the DevKit.

The new Notifications API Beta is now available as a plug-in to the Nokia Qt SDK.

• 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 Visual Designer is enabled by default.

They’ve also made it easier to get started with Mobile Development by providing “New Project Wizards”. The Mobile Wizard and the new Qt Quick Application Wizard deploy correctly to both the N900 and Symbian devices and include some boring code for stuff you’ll likely need. There is lots more. Download Here.

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 innovation throughout the mobile space, it is also redefining the landscape of its annual event to engage and inspire the brightest and most enthusiastic minds in the industry. SEE 2010 is not a tradeshow — it is a place for the wider community to come together, make cross-industry connections, conduct conversation, share ideas, educate each other and realize some of the vast possibilities that exist in the mobile market.

There is truly something for everyone, including open forums, keynote sessions, seminars, hands-on labs, interactive demos and, as always, the much anticipated Symbian party.

This year SEE 2010 will feature four seminar tracks, allowing the community to share its experience and knowledge and to engage with the topics that appeal to them. These include:
• Application Developer Track
• Horizon Track
• Platform Developer Track
• Business Track

Symbian is now looking for inspired individuals to submit abstracts that address the industry’s hot topics. The Call for Papers portal is available at www.see2010.org/call_for_speakers and the deadline for entry is 3rd September 2010.

Media contacts:
North America:
Andrea Heuer, Consort Partners
+1 917-886-5113
symbian@consortpartners.com

Europe:
Claire Rayner, Brands2Life
+44 20 7592 1200
Claire.Rayner@Brands2life.com

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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 all the way to application runtime, every layer is open for contributions and innovations. You can try out some of the HTML5 CSS3 features that are available with the QtWebkit port. (I will write another post to dig deeper on what HTML5 features are in our QtWebkit, stay tuned.) Get the source: http://get.qt.nokia.com/qtwrt. If you have an N900, should be available in Extras-devel http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/307/