Nokia OVI Store launched

Today the Nokia OVI Store finally launched starting from Australia. The OVI Store look like is a WRT application.

How to purchase Apps/Games from Ovi:

Reorgnizing blog !

Till this time, I was just publishing news which I found interesting.
Now a days I have spare time to write what I think. I am going to focus more on Qt and LBS as I am currently working in these areas.

I am also planning to re-organize and re-structure my blog.

Nokia - voted best place to work in New York!

Nokia White Plains was recently named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the State of New York for 2009. The Best Companies list is made up of 40 companies split into two groups: 20 small/medium-sized companies and 20 large-sized companies; Nokia was placed in the large company category. Companies from across the state participated in a two-part process to compete for this designation.

The first part, which comprised 25% of the total evaluation, consisted of reporting each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. Over 120 of our Nokia employees in the New York area participated in this survey. Their input constituted 75% of the total evaluation process!

Nokia received this recognition at the Best Companies to Work for in New York awards dinner on Thursday, April 23, 2009 in Albany, NY. We continued the celebration at the White Plains site with a cake and a champagne toast from Mark Louison!

New Symbian logo

Here is the new symbian logo:

Here's how Symbian explains the logo (link):

It is a brand that’s human and playful and friendly, where you feel the human hand. A brand that enables you to discover unlimited creative possibilities, that wants to share and talk A brand that’s fun, that isn’t fixed, but free to constantly evolve. A brand that’s owned by all the people that create and build with Symbian. A brand that celebrates new ideas and creativity in all forms. A brand that’s truly alive and refreshingly different, because it is! A brand that’s human to the core and that underneath beats a human heart.

Do you want to discuss about logo? Check All about symbian site.

.Net and Qt move forward on S60

Qt Software announced a new technology preview of Qt for S60 and Forum Nokia released Mobile Extensions for Qt for S60. More or less at the same time Red Five Labs announced the availability of Net60 version 2.1 with many improvements and support for the S60 5th Edition touch UI.

The latest Qt for S60 Technology Preview is an incremental step towards full Qt support on S60 devices. Code named ‘Garden’, this version is based on Qt 4.5. In addition, Forum Nokia has released the Mobile Extensions for Qt for S60 (try saying that in a hurry!) Mobile Extensions provide a number of Qt style APIs for accessing S60 features such as the contacts records and device location information. It appears some of these APIs depend on the Extensions APIs for S60 and a forthcoming update of Open C/C++, so this is still something for the hardcore coder.

More information can be found on the Forum Nokia Qt for S60 page.

Net60 has now arrived at its fourth release and Red Five Labs are claiming it offers a much improved WinForms UI and overall performance. In addition, support for touch screen devices has been added for the first time.
In my view Net60 is one of the more interesting independent runtime options for S60, opening up the possibility for both commercial and enterprise software developers to take advantage of S60 devices.
A 30-day trial is available, even if you trialled an earlier version. In addition, you could get a Free Net60 Professional license by responding to a survey Red Five Labs is conducting of its evaluator community.

More information can be found on Red Five Lab website. The web demo is a good starting point if you are unfamiliar with the technology.

Tajikistan bans cell phones from schools

The Central Asian state of Tajikistan Tuesday banned cell phones from all schools and universities in a bid to boost education.

"This measure has been taken in order to improve the quality of teaching at schools," deputy Dodikhudo Saimutdinov said after a vote in parliament.

Offenders, including those who carry phones without using them, will be fined.

Although Tajikistan is considered Central Asia's poorest nation, 3.2 million out of 7 million Tajiks use cell phones.

Do you think it is right decision and should be applied to other countries too?

Airtel Removes '95' Dialing from Fixed Line Phones

Airtel announced the withdrawal of '95' dialing for long distance calling on its fixed line service as per the directive from Department of Telecom (DoT), Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India. This withdrawal will come into effect from midnight of March 9, 2009.

Airtel's fixed line customers will now be able to call these telephone numbers (earlier accessed through 95) by activating the STD facility and dialing the city STD code prefixed with 0. For example - to call Mysore, Airtel fixed line customers in Bangalore will need to dial 0821 instead of 95821. Similarly, to call Bangalore, Airtel Telemedia customers in Mysore will need to dial 080 instead of 9580.

Airtel customers within 500 kms of a telecom circle and less than 50 kms of the adjoining SDCA can do without activating STD facility. They will need to dial the city STD code prefixed with 0. To access numbers outside of this perimeter, the customer will have to activate his STD facility by calling 121 from his Airtel fixed line number. The customer will continue to be billed for all calls as per the prevailing tariff.