CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian OS. As a Platinum Partner, CoWare is extending its virtual platform for software development solution to the Symbian ecosystem. CoWare Virtual Platform product family…
Online debugger WTFWMSFI launched at AAS Pub Meet
WTFWMSFI stands for “Why The F*ck Won’t My SIS File Install” and is a free online debugger and style guide for Symbian OS v9.1 SIS files. Launched exclusivly at the All About Symbian Pub Meet earlier today, this very useful online tool offers developers with an easy way to diagnose the problem with their SIS…
Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge winners announced
Nokia today announced the winners in the Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge global developer competition, awarding €100,000 in grand prizes to outstanding mobile applications developers for the best new applications based on the S60 3rd Edition.
RoadSync 3.0 beta released
DataViz, Inc. has released a public beta of RoadSync, version 3.0, which now supports select mobility features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Based on the Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail, attachments, calendar and contacts. The beta is currently available for Nokia…
Attend the AAS Pub Meet tonight
Just to remind you all folks that tonight (Monday 16th October 2006) is All About Symbian’s Pub Meet. The place: The Crosse Keys Pub located at the 9 Gracechurch Street (EC3V 0DR) in London The time: The AAS team will be there from 6.30 PM. AAS crew even compiled the top 15 reasons to come.…
Samsung SGH-i520 to be unveiled at Smartphone Show
Korean Chosun brings the story that Samsung is set to unveil its new S60 phone – SGH-i520 – at the Symbian Smartphone Show which starts tomorrow. Apparently, the SGH-i520 would be a HSDPA device running on Symbian 9.2/S60 3.1, just like the N95. No news whether it will have a built in GPS and/or WLAN.…
Symbian Ltd. and Cingular Wireless: Together for new Symbian OS v9 apps
Cingular Wireless and Symbian Limited today launched an early access support program to promote and accelerate application development for phones based on Symbian OS v9. Cingular Deluxe and Corporate Deluxe developers are offered complimentary Symbian Affiliate status, providing early and free access to Symbian reference materials. Cingular has also joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program,…
Seven new Symbian phones in Japan
NTT DoCoMo recently announced the new FOMA 903i range of 3G phones, with seven out of them (eleven were announced) running on Symbian OS. These devices are, of course, available only in Japan and are manufactured by Symbian OS licensees – Mitsubishi (D903i, D903iTV), Fujistu (F903i, F903iX), Sharp (SH903i, SH903iTV) and Sony Ericsson (SO903i).
September 2006 mobile threats
Four mobile threats were detected in September, according to F-Secure. Wesber.A The first virus detected in September was Wesber.A. It is a Java 2 Micro Edition based Java Midlet that contains a russian phone number to which it sends SMS messages. The sending function attempts to send the SMS message five times and then quits.…
PyS60 1.3.11 released
The new release of PyS60, Python S60, version 1.3.11 is released. Besides fixing the known bugs and problems, the new version also brings: support for both S60 2nd and 3rd edition in a single release support for constructing an “Image” object from an SVG Icon object for S60 3rd edition changes to standard library modules…