Ovi Store Beta Debuts On The MeeGo Harmattan Powered Nokia N950

Nokia has rolled out a beta of the Ovi Store for the developer only Nokia N950. While the release is still beta, it does give us an idea of what the Ovi Store will look like on the not so widely available Nokia N9. The design of the store is based on the MeeGo Harmattan UI that can be seen on the rest of the device with certain similarities with the Ovi Store on Symbian

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Post Q2 Results, Should Nokia Rethink Its N9 Strategy?

The people at the helm at Nokia could see this and say, heh, do you even know our N9 strategy? Or may be that you’re missing the bigger picture, and how its now a war of ecosystems

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Ovi Music On The N9 Supports Streaming Radio

We’ve known that the N9 would come with an all new version of Ovi Music very different from the clients we’ve seen on other Symbian devices. But one thing that comes as a very pleasant surprise is that the client on the N9 in-addition to a new UI, also supports streaming radio. You can browse music by genre as you would normally, but now you will also see a ‘ Play genre radio’ button there and with one tap you can have Ovi Music stream tracks from that genre.

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On app stores, compliance, packaging and tooling

I’ve been ranting about packaging requirements for app stores and the long roundtrip time and back-and-forth messaging that needs to take place until a package really gets published into an app store before. My experience here is with Nokia’s Ovi Store and Intel’s AppUp Center, and I’m obviously more interested in the Maemo and MeeGo-related parts (Ovi supports Symbian too, and AppUp supports Windows).

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Qt SDK 1.1 released

Today we announce the release of the Qt SDK 1.1. It has been a long way towards this point, which many of you have been waiting for. Before going into any details, here are the download links: Platform Online Installer Offline Installer Microsoft Windows 15MB 1,5GB Linux 32bit 23MB 687MB Linux 64bit 23MB 690MB Mac OS-X 12MB 680MB You can also get it on the Forum Nokia web pages here . Also note that if you have installed a previous version of the Qt SDK, you will receive an update notification and be able to download all changes via the maintenance tool

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Qt SDK 1.1 Release Candidate

The Qt labs team has just announced the release candidate (RC) for its Qt Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1. This follows from its recent beta release . The final release, following this RC, will allow developers to take advantage of all the latest Qt features and submit Qt 4.7 based applications to the Ovi Store

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Qt SDK 1.1 RC released

Today we announce the availability of the Qt SDK 1.1 Release Candidate. This is a major step towards the final Qt SDK 1.1, building on the beta we released a couple of weeks ago. The final Qt SDK will allow you to submit your Qt 4.7 based applications to the Ovi Store.

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GOM Reminder – a handy organizer for the N900

Checked out this nice app at the Ovi Store.

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 31 Jan 2011

Front Page Maemo 5 & N900 get community OS updates One of your editors, Andrew Flegg , posted – on behalf of the Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh – the announcement of the Fremantle Community SSU project. “Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia used to brand the over-the-air updates of Maemo.

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 24 Jan 2011

Front Page Gtk+ on MeeGo Handset bidders selected by GNOME Foundation Following a donation of a large sum of money by Nokia, the GNOME Foundation have selected Igalia to conduct the work: “We received a number of very interesting bids for the project, but Igalia's bid was the one that focused the most on integrating elements of Hildon into GTK+ upstream. This should mean easier porting of older Hildon/Maemo applications to the new MeeGo Handset platform, as well as easier porting of existing desktop GTK+ applications to the handset.” Claudio Saavedra, one of the developers working on the project, said “will spend the next months trying to bring the best from the Hildon user experience to upstream GTK+, to make sure that the good old Maemo applications can be easily ported to GTK+”. Read more Qt SDK 1.1 (Tech Preview) has Qt Quick/QML, Symbian, Maemo & desktop app support Nokia's Qt strategy take a step forward with a preview release of Qt SDK 1.1, which merges the numerous separate SDKs into a single install bundle: “The new SDK is a merge of the Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 and the last Qt SDK, based on Qt 4.7

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