Qt goes mobile, gets bling, aims for broader appeal

By tim, on October 14th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Here at Qt Developer Days in Munich we’ve heard how Nokia wants to see “Qt everywhere”, and will be supporting Qt on its Maemo operating system and on Symbian, as well as adding specific support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6, “Snow Leopard”. Qt already works on Microsoft Windows Mobile, and of course

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October 14th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized, internet, mobile, nokia, open source, qt, software development, symbian, trolltech, visual studio | One comment

Nokia announces N900, juggles three operating systems

By tim, on August 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Nokia has announced the N900 Internet Tablet running the Linux-based Maemo operating system. This is the latest in a series of Tablets (not to be confused with Microsoft’s Tablet PCs), but the first one to include “cellular features”, which means it can make and receive phone calls, though the press release hardly mentions it.

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August 27th, 2009 | Category: linux, mobile, nokia, open source, symbian | Leave a comment

Symbian appeals to Traveling Geeks: develop for our platform

By tim, on July 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended a Traveling Geeks event in London last night, a party sponsored mainly by Symbian and NESTA. I returned with a large pile of business cards from folk involved in a diverse range of initiatives. Kate Arkless Gray told me about Save our Sounds, a BBC World Service project to archive and map interesting

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July 6th, 2009 | Category: adobe, apple, eclipse, microsoft, mobile, nokia, open source, software development, symbian | One comment

Trolltech says Qt for Windows CE coming in May

By tim, on February 26th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Trolltech has announced Windows CE support in the 4.4 release of Qt, its cross-platform development framework. A pre-release is already available. Qt already supports desktop Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so this plugs a significant gap. Features include SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and OpenGL. It’s good to see this going ahead  despite Nokia’s acquisition

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February 26th, 2008 | Category: linux, microsoft, nokia, qt, software development, symbian, trolltech, windows | 2 comments