Obviously a key part of any multimedia platform is codec support, and over recent months we have been working with Aricent to make available a set of codecs. These are now available, in both ARM (for QEMU) and x86 (for WINS) builds – a big thanks to Aricent for their work towards this goal! These codecs enable full end-to-end testing of multimedia, which is a big step forward for the platform.
Nominations now open for the 2010 council elections
Mar 15th by Ian Hutton
Does your company have what it takes to make a difference on Symbian’s councils? If so, now is the time to pick your representatives and make your case because nominations for the 2010 elections for Symbian’s governing councils are now open.
Symbian’s councils play a critical role, representing the community and guiding the future direction of the Symbian platform. We are looking for active and engaged individuals who are keen to make a difference and help to write the next chapter in the Symbian story. All member companies are invited to nominate employees (or contractors) wherever you think that you can make a difference – be it in the areas of roadmaps, UI, architecture or releases (or all of them).
Symbian Values
Mar 10th by stevewarner
Collaborative —— Open —— Passionate —— Inspired
Hi, I’d like to tell you a little bit about what’s been happening here at Symbian with the creation and launch of our values, and how we’re living them. We’ve got to the point of creating and launching the imagery around our values, and we’ve made a video for you to see how we got to where we are now. And just so you know, there’ll be more to come on this.
But the main thing I want to say is, let’s live it!!! Cheesy, I know.
Really though, if they make sense and they came from us, what’s stopping us live them? Or is the only thing actually stopping us ourselves?
Life’s pretty straight without Twisties
Mar 8th by Hamish Willee
I hope you all liked the new wiki extensions we gave you for Christmas - image maps, calendars and beautiful print-to PDF.
This week we added two more:
- ToggleDisplay (a.k.a “Twisties”): hide/display text behind a (configurable) toggle link
- TreeAndMenu: Create menus and trees using a simple nested bullet syntax – the content can even be created dynamically using the DPL extension
Enjoy – there is plenty more to come!
Skype for Symbian
Mar 3rd by magdav
We talked about this previously when we were at MWC (read our ‘Skype on Symbian’ post), and Skype have officially announced today the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.
Symbian Stammtisch, Helsinki 9th March
Feb 26th by magdav
Helsinki is proud to join the growing network of cities with Symbian Stammtisch. Our kickoff is on Tuesday, March 9th, from 6pm to 9pm at restaurant Vltava in central Helsinki. The Stammtisch is made possible by Sasken, an active contributor and the mastermind behind Social Mobile Framework contribution.
The event is organized in cooperation with Mobile Brain Bank. We are collecting discussion topics for the evening here. Please register and claim your seat in the Helsinki happening.
Symbian presents Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile (Formerly known as Orbit)
Feb 24th by Julien Fourgeaud
Daniel Zucker and Ray Rischpater will share their thoughts on Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile (previously referred to as Orbit) , the new UI framework Nokia has recently open-sourced to Symbian and Gitorious (see http://qt.gitorious.org/uiemo) .
They will provide a summary of the business case for developers to move to Uiemo, followed by a review of its architecture.
With these fundamentals out of the way, they will provide a brief tour of benefits for Uiemo to Symbian developers including more in-depth discussion of individual UI components.
Join our team at the Symbian Foundation US office today at 6.30pm.
Free registration here: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Symbian-Developers-Meetup/
1000 Symbian ideas
Feb 23rd by freddiegjertsen
The trickle became a stream. The stream became a flood. In the four months since making Symbian Ideas public, we’ve rapidly and unexpectedly raced to 1,000 ideas for improving and extending the Symbian platform and organization.
Quantity isn’t everything. It’s crucial to Symbian that our community helps us to identify and refine innovative, desirable and feasible ways to improve the Symbian platform. The quality of ideas is equally, if not more, critical than the quantity.
Nonetheless, 1000 ideas is a milestone that we’re extremely happy to pass. So thanks to the thousands of you that have proposed and debated ideas so far. Especial thanks to the team of moderators who volunteered their time (Gina, Fakhre and Antoine) and the experts (all listed here) who have brought insight to ideas and are helping to make them into reality.
Welcome to the new blog
Feb 22nd by Haydn
The new blog design has been up and running for a week so I thought I’d pen a quick note about it. We decided to redesign the blog some months back. The main reason was the lack of content visibility on the old blog. Once an author had written a piece it could disappear from the home page within a week and never be seen again. That was proving to be a barrier to people contributing and readers too had reason to complain. We have over 350 posts and unless you were prepared to search extensively or browse through older pages you would finding content of relevance was a challenge
In addition there weren’t many opportunities to get to know the bloggers. And our video coverage of events needed a little more exposure, so we could actually build more visual treatment into our communications here. So what does the new blog do? Read more »
Symbian in Open Screen
Feb 15th by Haydn
Symbian has joined the Adobe-led Open Screen Project, the industry initiative to bring Flash to mobile screens. Or to put it more precisely: to enable the delivery of rich multiscreen experiences built on a consistent runtime environment for open web browsing and standalone applications.
The Flash platform has a community of more than one million developers and delivers over 80% of web video, and of course Adobe have a great track record of providing excellent cross-platform authoring tools. What I find particularly exciting about the Open Screen project is that it is not just about the mobile web but about creating a seamless experience across all anticipated devices including desktop, mobile and consumer electronics and the potential for innovation in content. The Open Screen Fund…. Read more »
