“Software” Articles

Digia has announced that it is set to acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business from Nokia. Through the proposed acquisition, around 3500 desktop and embedded customer companies from various industries are targeted to be transferred to Digia, with the transaction expected to close by the end of March 2011. Hit the jump to find out more.

During Nokia Developer day at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2011, Nokia Beta Labs announced a major release of Mobile Documents by Visiarc (v0.9.20) since the beta launch. It includes some of the most requested features including Symbian^1 and S60 support, Hotmail support and a homescreen widget to make it complete. Hit the jump to find out more.

Finally here’s one extremely exciting preview for the future. With no estimated release date, Microsoft also announced that Windows Phone 7 will eventually receive Xbox Kinect support, allowing users to play interactive games using their Windows Phone powered handset. Check out the preview video after the break.

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for Windows Phone was also showcased at Mobile World Congress yesterday, which supports HTML5 and has the same hardware accelerated graphics you’ll find on the PC version. Check out the video demo after the break, where Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management, managed to sneak in a cheeky comparison with the iPhone 4′s Safari web browser.

Part of Microsoft’s announcement of the new Windows Phone update at Mobile World Congress yesterday, included the addition of multitasking to the platform that’s rapidly gaining popularity. Yes you heard that correctly, believe it or not, multitasking is also not yet available on Windows Phone 7, but the new update which is due to be released next month, will finally bring this imperative feature to Windows Phone users. Hit the jump to see how it will work in the presentation video from MWC.