SymbianOne Monitor for the week of January 15-21, 2004

Welcome to the SymbianOne Monitor for the week of January 15-21, 2004
"Keeping our eyes on the Symbian Ecosystem"
http://www.SymbianOne.com


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SYMBIAN FEATURES

Creating a Mobile News Portal for the Nokia 6600
Nokia 6600 coupled with the Opera browser is a powerful tool for browsing
the web, but, to reduce his data traffic charges and get just the
information he wanted, Philipp Lenssen used his own web site to feed RSS
content to his Nokia 6600. In this article Philipp explains how he went
about it. (This article has been featured on Slashdot.org!... another reason
to submit your success stories for publication on SymbianOne)
http://www.symbianone.com/features/0401_XHTML/

Advanced Merchant Solutions Inc. - Making MobileVB Pay
If you thought the only way to build robust commercial applications for
wireless was in Java or C++ then think again. We talk to Dennis Ideue of
Advanced Merchant Solutions Inc. who is using AppForge MobileVB for a
successful wireless payments authorization system
http://www.symbianone.com/features/0401_ams/

Developer Resources, SDKs, Tools, & technical papers
We've updated our developer "devzone" area of the site, adding a
comprehensive resource list of useful Devzones, Community forums, discussion
groups, and industry associations - did we miss somthing? Feel free to pass
along suggestions for inclusion in this resource.
http://www.symbianone.com/downloads/devzones.html

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THIS WEEK'S SYMBIANONE NEWSMAKERS

AppForge releases Crossfire and adds Microsoft .NET support to Symbian OS
devices. - The release of Crossfire is a significant milestone for AppForge
as it truely makes it an enterprise development tools for those organization
which have embraced .NET. It is also significant for Symbian OS devices
because they are now no longer locked out of those enterprises which have
embraced a Microsoft based strategy. Details Here
http://www.symbianone.com/news/012104rb_1.html

Rendering Web Content on Medium-Sized Screens - Opera Software today
unveiled Medium-Screen Rendering (MSR). MSR addresses all these mid- to
top-tier devices, delicately squeezing content to fit the screen. Details
Here
http://www.symbianone.com/news/020204gl_1.html

Perl for Series 60? Nokia might be preparing to release Perl for Series 60
and provide more support to OPL Details Here
http://www.symbianone.com/news/011704rb_1.html

Psiloc launches Negate for Series60 - Psiloc Mobile Solutions launches
commercial version of its new, addictive, logical game for Symbian
smartphones Details Here
http://www.symbianone.com/news/015204gl_1.html

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COMMUNITY NOTES

msmobiles on symbian... Pro-Symbian Internet mafia and their machinations
exposed This article on a pro-MS news site recognizes that Symbian is coming
on strong. The piece goes on to acknowledge a number of Symbian news
resources and identifies SymbianOne as a credible Symbian resource, not
reliant on MS-bashing in an effort to bolster traffic.
http://msmobiles.com/catalog/i.php/417.html

Community Note: We're pleased to annouce that Symbian has recognized the
efforts of SymbianOne by including us in their Community Links section. We
are honored to be included in this resource and encourage our readers to
visit the section to locate some other fine Symbian community resources.
http://www.symbian.com/developer/adm...prtysites.html

Symbian Tutorial - Porting applications from Series 60 to UIQ: [PDF] This
tutorial is one of a series describing some of the issues involved in
porting applications between various flavors of Symbian OS. Sample source
codeHere
http://www.symbian.com/developer/tec...ries60-UIQ.pdf

New at Forum.Nokia - Creating MIDlets with Borland JBuilder X: [PDF] Learn
how Borland JBuilder X and Nokia Developer's Suite 2.0 for J2MET simplify
the process of creating MIDlets.
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,65...ml&fileID=4203

Link to SymbianOne.com - have you added a link to SymbianOne from your
website? If so, please be sure to tell us about it so we can show our
appreciate and reciprocate in some way!

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EVENTS

Tower Summit
No matter what your role -- tower ownership; site development/planning and
construction; RF engineering and services; finance & investment --Tower
Summit is the one industry event where your business is the focus. Sept
14-15, 2004, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.towersummit.com/tower04/default.asp

Wireless & Mobile Summit 2004
This is a must attend event for CIOs, CTOs, telecom and networking
executives/managers, application development managers, strategists,
architects, project managers, CFOs, and the line-of-business managers
involved in Wireless/Mobile projects 8-10 March 2004, Chicago , IL
http://www3.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/ra7.jsp

CTIA Wireless 2004
This global event draws attendees from dozens of industries in more than 80
countries. CTIA Wireless serves every aspect of the industry: providers,
users, developers, buyers, and manufacturers.
March 22-24, Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.ctiawireless2004.com/general/index.cfm

Mobile Billing
Now in its 6th year, this high powered Mobile Billing event is the leading,
most established event annually and is recognised as a summit for gaining an
understanding of the strategic and technical issues facing tomorrows mobile
billing market
Feb 22-24, Cannes, France
http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com/billing/

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SYMBIAN CAREER CENTER
http://www.symbianone.com/jobs/

We've received several requests from recruiters noting that they are having
difficulties recruiting Symbian developers for contract employment...
doesn't anyone need more work? Visit the career center for details of a
number of contractor opportunities.

Software Tester(Openbit, Finland)
C++ Software Developer (Openbit, Finland)
Symbian C++ Developers - Northern Germany
Symbian JAVA Developer - Northern Germany
Software Engineer - Symbian Driver Development (The Midlands)
Symbian project managers (USA)

Get your job announcements noticed. List your Symbian career opportunity for
Free at SymbianOne! Simply email details of your career posting to
(E-Mail Removed)
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SYMBIAN DOWNLOADS - http://www.symbianone.com/downloads/

SymbianOne is pleased to provide you with pointers to some fine Symbian
device downloads and developer tools. If you have a developer tool, SDK,
game, or other application that runs on a Symbian OS device and would like
to make it available for sale or download via SymbianOne.com, please contact
(E-Mail Removed) Featured Downloads:

New S60 Document... Series 60 Emulator Configuration - The emulator provides
Series 60 developers with a full target Symbian platform that runs on a PC
with various environments such as Microsoft Visual C++, Metrowerks
CodeWarriorT for Symbian OS, or Borland C++ BuilderXT.
http://www.symbianone.com/downloads/011904gl.html

New S60 Developer Platform Guide... Designing XHTML Mobile Profile Content
Series 60 Emulator Configuration - This guide provides information and
practical examples for developers who want to optimize their Browsing
services for Series 60 Phones with XHTML browser.
http://www.symbianone.com/downloads/011604gl.html

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FREE TELECOM INDUSTRY TRADEPUBS

EE Times EE Times delivers business and technology news every week to
engineers and technical managers in the electronics industry. Besides
reporting the news, editors analyze key industry trends and developments,
put the news into perspective and predict what is likely to happen next.
Opinion from leaders of government and industry is also part of the
editorial fiber of the paper.
http://symbiandevzone.tradepub.com/free/eet/

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SYMBIAN READING

Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, Second Edition (by Jonathan Knudsen )
Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, Second Edition will be updated to
include coverage of the next version of programs for mobile Java devices.
The second edition will cover MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1, and the new information
will be distinguishable so readers can still reference the book for MIDP
1.0/CLDC 1.0. Book highlights include: * Complete coverage of the Mobile
Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 * Comprehensive coverage of MIDP 2.0's
security features, HTTPS support, user interface enhancements, and sound *
All new material on the Media and Game APIs * Includes advanced chapters on
performance tuning, XML parsing, and cryptography
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...5/symbian1-20/

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