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Ericsson Application Awards page

Just spreading the word and reminding of: Ericsson has the deadline in the end of January, for registration of team for the great opportunity for student developers to gain exposure with the telecom world and have a chance to win upwards of EUR 20,000 in prize money.

That’s right, the competition is for students, but any company can participate as discussion partner to support the students during the development. Students should choose the company contact to join the competition. Process is described here. The point of the competition is to utilize Ericsson Labs enablers.

If you know any talented postgraduate or undergraduate students why not give them a hint :)

Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications and devices easier and more enjoyable.

Highlights

• More eye candy

New animation framework – new advanced graphics effects like opacity, drop shadows, glow, and filtering are supported.

• More fingers

Ability to create multi-touch applications with new multi-touch and gestures, such as flicking and kinetic scrolling.

• More horsepower

More performance to deliver the “wow” effects.

• Updated tools

Qt Creator tool coming with SDK has been updated.

Cool!

Qt for Symbian is no more technology preview stage, according to videos the performance seems to vary between adequate to excellent.

Qt appears now to be much more tempting for mobile developers demanding better UX. For Nokia devices, with Qt technology you can create applications besides for S60, also for Maemo in future, perhaps for S40 as well.

Sources :

http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/nokia-releases-qt-4.6
http://qt.nokia.com/whatsnew
http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/symbian

Many Swf Packager tools (KuneriLite, SWF2Go, Janus) use SVG-t as their primary icon format.

With these instructions you can use also PNG file easily:

1. Convert the PNG image to base64 format from here.

(Press “Browse” to select the file and then “Convert”)

2. You’ll see “Base64 representation of the source data”
Copy and paste the entire textfield into some text-editor.

3. As SVG is basically text file, we can directly use the Base64 formatted text.
Use the template text below to create your SVG (replace the text
THE BASE64 ENCODED BITMAP GOES HERE with your copy pasted text) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" zoomAndPan="magnify"
baseProfile="tiny" contentStyleType="text/css" version="1.0"
width="6.77196" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 6.77196
6.85856" height="6.85856" fill-rule="evenodd">
<g>
<metadata/>
<g>
<image x="-2.847" y="-3.71656" transform="matrix(1 0 0 1
2.847 3.71656)" width="6.77196" xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,THE
base64 ENCODED BITMAP GOES HERE" xlink:type="simple"
xlink:actuate="onLoad" height="6.85856" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid
meet" xlink:show="embed"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>

Now save the text file and convert the SIS.
No more hassle with Illustrator, Inkscape and SVG2SVGT Converter !
However, your bitmap icon will not be scalable, so stick to SVG if you are targeting more than one device model.

Kudos to Riku Salminen/FN for the hint!

How easy it’s to start browsing a web site on your mobile browser? Launch the browser, type the address (how many clicks?), go! Well, if you want people to visit your web site; you have to make it easier to access. Many people will be way too lazy to type your address (especially if it’s long), if you want traffic, you have to make it dead simple. Then the question is: How? Now there is a new and handy tool for anyone to create website launchers for popular Symbian phones with WRT (Web Runtime Widget) support online.

1. Go to Website Launcher Generator

2. Specify your launcher widget’s name

3. Specify the URL to be launched

4. If you have one, upload an icon for the widget

5. Optionally, change the widget’s version number, and its unique ID

6. Click “Generate!” and download your new widget

Kudos to Alessandro, now we can offer our visitors to access our web site with one click from application menu.

On top of my wish-list; I have J2ME support, where you can create a J2ME based launcher for your website, which would let us to reach much more phones.

Pikkoo introduces interactive Live Screensavers and partners with Foreca to bring weather-cast of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers

Oulu, Finland, 30th June 2009 – Pikkoo, an innovative Finnish startup, today introduced the ground breaking Live Screensaver concept, streaming information to mobile devices without ever pushing a button. Using Pikkoo Live Screensavers, mobile users will not only be served up-to-date information anytime, anywhere without a need to launch an application, but also will be able to interact with their screensaver just as any other mobile application.

With the introduction, the first live screensaver is launched in partnership with Foreca, leading Finnish digital weather service company. Foreca Live Weather Screensaver will bring up-to-date, geographic-specific weather information of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers. Users will also be able to get detailed information from foreca.mobi, the most comprehensive mobile weather service, using the screensaver.

“Here at Foreca, we’re very excited to offer such a novel concept to our audience together with Pikkoo. With an ever increasing demand from the mobile audience for accurate, up-to-date weather information; it will be possible for Foreca to bring weather-cast into everyone’s pocket with minimum effort” says Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development, Foreca.

Utilizing Adobe Flash® Lite™ and its own proprietary technologies, Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers are able to brings contextual content to mobile devices, reducing information delivery to the simplest form possible for today’s mobile devices.

“Why should you launch an application to access information, while information could be served right in front of you?” asks Mr. Ugur Kaner, CEO of Pikkoo. “Our partnership with Foreca is one great example of how weather information could be brought to users, without users needing to go and get themselves. Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers can similarly be applied to a multitude of uses to a variety of industries as a value-added service that can capture any mobile user today.” he continues.

For more information, visit www.pikkoo.com/foreca-live-weather-screensaver.html or contact Pikkoo.

About Pikkoo

Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009. Pikkoo launched private beta in November 2008, and opened to the public in May 2009.  For more information, go to http://www.pikkoo.com

About Foreca Ltd.

Foreca Ltd. is a full-scale weather company based in Helsinki, Finland. Foreca has more than ten years of experience of forecasting weather and providing internet and mobile weather services. Foreca specializes in weather services for digital media and especially mobile devices. Foreca’s first commercial mobile weather service was launched already in 1997, and it is still steady revenue creator. Thanks to its world-wide partner network Foreca is able to provide accurate weather information for any market. Today, Foreca’s mobile weather services have users across all continents. For more information please visit http://corporate.foreca.com

About Adobe® Flash® Lite™

Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content. Flash Lite has shipped on 1 billion devices (40% of all new handsets in 2008) and will reach more than 2.5 billion devices by the end of 2010.

Contact Info

Pikkoo Ltd.
Mr. Endale Mitiku, VP Marketing & Sales
Tel: +358 443 19 1259
Email: dale[at]pikkoo[d.t]com
Adress: Pakkahuoneenkatu 12 A, 90100, Oulu, Finland

Foreca Ltd.
Mr. Tuomo Kolehmainen, Business Manager, Channels
Tel. +358 44 3300646
Email: tuomo.kolehmainen[at]foreca[d.t]com
Address: Tammasaarenkatu 5, FI-00180, Finland

via Pikkoo blog

Pikkoo wins the startup competition of MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE in ‘Play’ category to present in Barcelona among 5 hottest mobile startups of Europe representing Finland. Kudos!

The MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships.

via Pikkoo blog

We are pleased to announce the availability of KuneriLite version 0.9.8.

There are two new plug-ins for recording sound with Flash Lite and counters for missed call and new SMSs. There are also major improvements on creating SIS packages and testing. You can find the release notes here.

New features

• Record plug-in for sound recording with Flash Lite
• Missed calls and unread SMS counters
• S60 5th edition support
• Adobe Flash Lite Distributable Player download support for S60 3.0 devices
• Support for static content (eases Symbiansigned procedure for simple Flash content)
• Debugging traces added (enabled only in test “Basic” version)

Fixes

• SIS vendor text field corrected
• Launches now always latest FL player version (even if developer edition is installed)

KuneriLite commercial license is also available for you to purchase. Enjoy!