Tag: update

Anna rolls out (will roll out) to Symbian handsets by the Autumn

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Lost of lively discussion over on AAS about the Symbian Anna software update, mostly around the speed of roll-out: Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, announced that the Symbian Anna software update for the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 would start shipping in new devices in July and would be available for all existing device owners to download by the end of August. He also announced that, over the next 12 months, Nokia intends to bring 10 new Symbian based smartphones to the market.

Obligatory WordPress 2.7 Blog with Added Email Hiccup

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I doubt that you’d notice the upgrade of the blog to WordPress 2.7, which in true Mullenweg form took about 5 minutes including the FTP uploading schedule. The only thing you might notice is that one of the plug-ins I use, Comment Relish, has sent out an email to everyone who’s left a comment on the blog. It’s only designed to send comments to first time posters. If you got an email from the blog… sorry for that. Update: I also note that Windows Live Writer now picks up the built-in WordPress tag system… nice!

Dear Apple, Downloads does not equal Developers

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Apple’s CFO has announced 200,000 developers for the iPhone are raring to go, and especially rariing to do enterprise applications. Really? Sounds remarkably like the claims that Palm used to make with the numbers of SDK’s download for Palm OS, and the hundreds of thousands of developers they had… And that platform has, as of today 4484 applications on Pocket Gear. Which is a nice return on the numbers of SDK downloaded. Yes, every platform and manufacturer plays this game, and most rational commentators realise this… I’m just bracing myself for the non-rational commentators that will take this figure with