Symbian licenses Scalado software to deliver picture perfect mobile imaging

Symbian Limited, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, has signed a licensing agreement with Scalado for its mobile imaging software affording Symbian OS™ state of the art image handling capabilities, making Symbian an even more attractive mobile OS choice for mid-range devices.

Scalado’s solution for Symbian OS will significantly improve Symbian’s imaging performance for higher megapixel images. It will deliver faster rendering, scaling and rotation and superior image editing features - with the added benefit of reduced memory consumption. Importantly, Scalado’s patented Random Access JPEG technology allows imaging operations to occur while the image is in compressed form, greatly reducing RAM consumption.

Retroactive to Symbian OS v9.3 and v9.4, the three year licence ensures benefits for end-users and handset manufacturers alike and is free of any additional royalties. End users will enjoy higher usability while handset manufacturers will see a cut in hardware costs. Under the terms of the deal, Symbian and Scalado will create a joint team of highly skilled imaging and camera engineers to enhance and extend Symbian's camera and imaging offering.

Nokia:Most Trusted Brand in India

Today Ecomonic Times announced that Nokia is the most trusted brand in India, replacing Colgate.

“Becoming the No 1 trusted brand in India is a very prestigious achievement for us,” Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, president & CEO, Nokia Corp, confessed while speaking to Brand Equity, the joy and sense of achievement palpable over the heavy static in the phone connection between Mumbai and New York. The high command has every right to feel pleased. In four short years, Nokia has leapfrogged from a distant No 71 (in 2005) to No 44 (2006) to No 4 (last year) to finally replacing the deeply-entrenched Colgate as the No 1 this year.

Now I am Nokia employee :P

I will like to announce to whole world that I am Nokia employee now. I was trying toget job in Nokia for last 2 years and finally the dream comes true for me. True to its slogan "connecting people', Nokia gives 1 N-series device (Currently either N95 or E90) to each employee and it also pays entire mobile bill. The work culture so far seems to be good and there is hardly any work pressure.
I am currently part of LBS team here. And I am sure that I will learn lots of lots of jargons in LBS world.

Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition Leverage Desktop Skills

Open C/C++ plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition provide developers with access to a comprehensive range of standard C/C++ libraries. These include:

C libraries, providing functions from nine well-known Standard POSIX and middleware C libraries, including: libc, libdl, libpthread, libm, libz, libcrypt, libcrypto, libglib, and libssl.
C++ libraries, providing cross-platform standard C++ libraries, including IOStreams, STL, and Boost.
Real-Time Graphics and Audio (RGA) API, providing C++ libraries - for selected devices - that enable the development applications with rich audio and graphics

You may download it from here.

Transfer of Nokia's Adaptation Software R&D entity to Sasken Communication Technologies completed

Nokia and Sasken Communication Technologies announced that the transfer of Nokia's Adaptation Software R&D operations in Bochum, Germany has been completed. With this transfer Sasken Communication Technologies assumes full ownership of the software R&D entity, effective May 31st, 2008. The transaction will enable continuance of the employment for 35 employees of the software R&D entity in Bochum.

"Nokia and Sasken have been successfully cooperating over the recent years and with this new set up we are further widening the long-term collaboration between Nokia and Sasken", said Heikki Heinaro, Vice President, Adaptation Software, Nokia.

Edwin Moses, Senior Vice President - Handset Solutions Group, Sasken, added "We warmly welcome the new members to the Global Sasken Family. The Bochum team's expertise forms a natural fit to Sasken's existing competencies and will enable us to strengthen our offerings, especially in the areas of Series 40 software platform, local connectivity and core software for silicon and hardware access. This step is synergistic with Sasken's growth strategy towards becoming a global supplier to Nokia."

Forum Nokia Announces Code Camp Competition Winners

Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications. The winners are:

Grand Prizes

Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.
WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing application with MapQuest APIs to let users look for and get directions to places of interest.

Regional Winners


Europe/Middle East/Africa
Flash: Kuneri Easy Vote from Kuneri of Oulu, Finland. One-button mobile voting lets users vote by mobile phone call, text message, or Web service.
WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. This mashup is a grand prize winner.

Americas
Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. This mobile guide is a grand prize winner.
WRT: Fon11 by Mo'Blast of Berkeley, California. A mobile social-networking utility that lets users share their whereabouts with friends and family and determine if their contacts are nearby.

Asia-Pacific
Flash: WIND from Fieldsystem. This screen saver displays an image of a propeller turning in the wind. If the mobile signal is strong, the propeller spins quickly; if the signal weakens, the propeller spins more slowly. Also, the screen saver's background scenery changes throughout the day.
WRT: Nutrition from Singapore Polytechnic. This widget is used for calculating your BMI and also calories burned on a daily basis, and it can help the user to check typical food nutrition in order to maintain a healthy life style.

China
WRT: Push To Speak from Beijing Motech Technology. This mobile travel guide to China helps tourists search for restaurants, places of interest, streets, and more. Also, when the user clicks a word, the software "speaks" the word in Chinese, a useful feature for asking directions and instructing taxi drivers. The latest version includes information relating to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

switch between silent and general modes with one key press

This is really good ad quick way to switch between general and silent profile mode. It really helped me to quickly switch to silent mode during meetings.

The quickest way to switch from general to silent and vice versa is to use the # key. Here’s how it works:

1. Press and hold down the # key.

2. The profile will automatically switch to silent.

3. When you want to switch back to general, just press and hold the # key again.

The other way to switch between profiles is to click the power button, choose the profile you want to switch to, then click ok or press the center key.

Sasken becomes a member of the S60 Product Creation Community

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited , a leading player in wireless software solutions and a pioneer in communications R & D outsourcing, announced today that it has joined the S60 Product Creation Community. The membership is another step that enhances Sasken’s capabilities in providing its customers a one-stop outsourcing partner for developing smartphones. The Technology Integrator status provides Sasken an opportunity to add value to S60 ecosystem through its multimedia experience. The membership also reinforces Sasken’s associated partnerships, which include Symbian Competence Center, OMAP Technology Center and ARM Approved Design Center.

"Sasken becoming the S60 Licensee is a very positive development that will further develop the global community of software talents contributing to the development of new S60 phones," said Christian Heinz, Director, Product Creation Community, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia.

"It is a proud moment for Sasken. The S60 Community membership positions us well as a Symbian Software company. We would be closely associated with the S60 Product Creation Community to develop advanced handsets which will enhance the User experience further.” commented Kannankote Srikanth, President and COO, Sasken Communication Technologies.

New UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer plug-in for Carbide

The new UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer is a plug-in for Carbide which allows you to take a snapshot of you current UIQ 3 SDK installation and compare any changes made to it over time.

The UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer takes a snapshot of your current SDK installation which is essentially a zip archive of the epoc32 branch. You can then compare your 'live' SDK with your archive and easily identify any files that have been added, removed or modified and, if necessary, reset to your original snapshot image.

Download UIQ 3 SDK Synchronizer plug-in for Carbide

Country-less SIM from V-Tel mobile

For those who travel abroad often, and hate to buy a new country-specific SIM each time in order to save on international roaming charges -- stop juggling around with multiple SIM cards. Here's a new option wherein you can buy a SIM just once and then use it as a local card in most of the countries you travel to for your entire lifetime.


The V-Tel mobile service can be used in around 229 countries with more than 250 mobile service providers. The card can be purchased and recharged online. However, the recharge will be in dollars or euros or pounds depending on where the top-up is being requested.

Tata to Offer Location Based Services

Tata Teleservices has announced a new location-based service that claims to be the first in the country to use Qualcomm's Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology.

Using Qualcomm's QPoint and gpsOne solutions, this service will allow developers create precise, reliable, and compelling location-based applications. The A-GPS service will leverage triangulation with cellular base stations and satellite-based GPS for precise location in both rural and urban environments, including the inside of buildings and structures.