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Roughly 3 years ago Nokia purchased Trolltech, the Norwegian company responsible for developing the Qt platform. Nokia’s goal was simple: Let’s make Symbian easier to develop for and create a software layer we can throw on top of both Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo so that developers writing for our devices can address a larger customer base.…
With less than one month left until the end of Q1 2011, we’ve already seen several dual core Android powered smartphones getting announced and one has even hit the market. Expect each and every operator to fight to the death in order to keep up and out do their competitors. T-Mobile USA, the smallest of…
Several blurry cameraphone pictures of a yet to be announced Sony Ericsson smartphone have made their way onto the internets. What we’re looking at here is a device that runs Windows Phone 7, has a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and that’s pretty much all we know. When will this handset be announced, how much will…
If oil is black gold then spectrum is invisible gold, because without it operators can’t build the networks that we need to talk, text, and watch Charlie Sheen interviews in high definition while waiting in line at the supermarket. Senators Olympia Snowe and John Kerry have recently introduced the Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and…
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is something we’ve been covering for years, and with each article we publish about the magical capabilities it promises to bring to our daily lives we can’t help but feel a bit let down that it’s been taking so damn long to get off the ground. With NFC support now…
Apple’s recently announced iPad 2 made Apple fans across the world squeal like a pig about to feast on a bucket of chicken from KFC, but many people, myself included, frankly couldn’t give a damn. Whether Google manages to make a better tablet operating system, or Microsoft comes out with something compelling in 18 months,…
Nintendo recently launched their 3DS mobile gaming system in Japan and it’s due to hit American shores quite soon. It’s the successor to the wildly popular DS and DSi, both of which introduced gamers to a new way of enjoying games thanks to the two screens, one of which being touch enabled. Satoru Iwata, the…
Insurance firm State Farm, in an informal survey of 912 licensed drivers performed in November 2010, found that 19% of respondents say that they browse the web at least once a week while driving their car. If that figure isn’t bone chilling enough they also found that 74% of people take and make calls while…
When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced to the world that the world’s largest handset maker would be switching to Windows Phone, Symbian would be killed after roughly 2 years, and that MeeGo isn’t even relevant anymore, you’ve got to wonder how employees took the news. In Tampere and Oulu, two cities in Finland, Symbian developers…
When you were a child you probably played with Lego bricks and constructed small scale versions of cities you dreamed of visiting one day as an adult. Some of you also played SimCity and did the same thing. Whatever method you went about creating your fantasy metropolis, that urge to build, plan, and organize an…