The Symbian Smartphone Show – Day 2 News

18 October 2006 - on the second day of The Symbian Smartphone Show there was a flurry of mobile developer announcements, including new initiatives to Symbian Signed, a new Accredited Symbian Developer book, and the Forum Nokia S60 Challenge award winners. Highlights follow from Symbian and its partners:

Symbian Signed launches new initiatives to make application signing faster

A new range of initiatives was announced to help developers bring Symbian applications to market faster. These include a fast-track certification process, a DevCert Request plug-in for Carbide.c++, automated test tools and a new Symbian Signed website. The announcement comes in the wake of 12,300 signing instances since the creation of Symbian Signed and follows a strong wave of developers migrating applications to Symbian OS™ v9 where application signing has increased 68% from Q2 to Q3 in 2006. http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068542.html

Symbian launches new book for Accredited Symbian Developer exam

The latest book in the Symbian Press series was launched at the Smartphone Show today: The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer. The book has been written to help prepare developers for the Symbian Accredited Developer exam. A pass from the exam is now recognised by the British Computer Society (BCS) as a suitable pre-requisite for becoming a member of the BCS. The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer teaches the fundamental concepts of Symbian C++ development and the knowledge and skills detailed in the book will teach developers how to create high quality code for Symbian C++ applications and services and will prepare them for the ASD examination. Once passed, the ASD accreditation now serves as a pre-requisite for joining the BCS as an associate member (AMBCS), having been formally ratified by the BCS as an exam of sufficient quality and integrity. http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068555.html

News from the Symbian ecosystem on day 2 of the Symbian Smartphone Show :

Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge Winners

Nokia announced the winners in the Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge global developercompetition, awarding prizes to outstanding mobile applications developers for the best new applications based on the S60 3rd Edition. QuickOffice, Foreca, InfoTalk, and Augmentra won grand prizes for showing a high degree of enthusiasm for the advanced device management capabilities, user interface, and intuitive web browser functionality of devices based on S60 3rd Edition and Symbian OS. http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1081322

Quickoffice® 4.0 Demonstrated Quickoffice previewed Quickoffice 4.0 for S60, a major upgrade to its award-winning solution. Quickoffice provides smartphone users mobile access to Microsoft Office documents, allowing them to open, edit, and save documents in their native format. With this release, Quickoffice brings many powerful features for the first time to mobile phones that greatly enhance the user’s experience and productivity, including comprehensive editing capabilities in Word®, PowerPoint®, and Excel® with complete integrity of a document’s original formatting. http://www.quickoffice.com/press/releases/

Discretix addresses the challenges of secure DRM implementation for mobile devices

Discretix, the leading provider of embedded security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for mobile devices and flash memory has announced availability of a white paper addressing the challenges of a secure DRM implementation on Symbian OS. The white paper will be available for download on the Symbian Developer Network website, partner extranet as well as the Discretix website. http://www.discretix.com/pr061017_symbian.shtml

Synchronica gets Symbian smartphones screaming with Mobile Manager

Synchronica plc, an international provider of robust mobile synchronization and device management solutions announced that it has expanded the security functions of its Mobile Manager to support Symbian smartphones. With Mobile Manager, businesses or service providers can immediately secure lost or stolen Symbian smartphones remotely, from Mobile Manager's web-based application. The device can be wiped and locked over-the-air, preventing sensitive corporate or personal data stored on the device from being accessed by unauthorised users. Also available with the software release is the ability to augment the wipe and lock feature with an optional screaming sound sent OTA to the device as a sound file. http://www.synchronica.com/press/releases/

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