“Events” Articles

Nokia’s EVP of Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell, spoke at MWC 2011about her role to drive the strategy put in place to get the ‘Next Billion’ connected. The aim is to make mobile phones and Internet services affordable and accessible to more people across the globe, especially to growing economies. Check out the interview after the break.

Nokia today released a short teaser to what seems to be an event taking place at SXSW 2011 in Austin, Texas. Clearly involving Angry Birds, the event is set to take place at The Belmont Stage on Saturday 12th March at 9pm. Check out the trailer after the break.

Check out these video’s after the break from Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona where first, Microsoft’s Matt Bencke, General Manager for Windows Phone and Marketplace, talks about the nature and opportunities in developing for the Nokia/Microsoft ecosystem. This is followed by the reaction of developers, who weigh in on the planned partnership giving their honest opinions, and explain what exactly the news means for them, and how it will effect their immediate and long term future.

Here’s a couple of video demo’s from Qt at Mobile World Congress2011 in Barcelona. First up is Qt’s WebKit integration and some HTML5 apps. Secondly Qt showcases it’s potential when it comes to NFC, utilizing an app created be Digia called ShopWizer on a Nokia C7. Hit the jump for the demo’s.

Services Marketing Manager, Bill Perry from Forum Nokia discusses the future of Qt developers and how they will still play important part despite Nokia’s future plans. He also states that the transition to Windows Phone development will be made as easy as possible, with the right development tools. Find out more about the finer details, the future for developers and the reasons for the decisions made in the video after the break.