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Episode 146: Talking to Ilya Eliashevsky of DataViz

We popped by the DataViz stand to talk with Ilya, to find out more about their RoadSync service and to get an on-camera demo of the latest version for Symbian. Have a watch…

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Episode 145: Demonstration of LogMeIn Express

I’ve been using LogMeIn to access my desktops remotely for a long time.  So when we walked by the LogMeIn stand at Mobile World Congress and saw their new ‘Express‘ service being demonstrated on a mobile device, we thought we’d take a look.  Essentially the service enables anyone to view your desktop from anywhere — [...]

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Episode 144: Talking Symbian with Michael McTernan of Rapid Mobile

We bumped into Michael McTernan of Rapid Mobile at the Mobile World Congress Symbian hospitality area and asked what he thought of Symbian…

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Episode 143: Naga Hariharan demos QuickofficeConnect for cloud

QuickOffice is installed on millions of handsets.  It makes short work of mobile document, spreadsheet and presentation editing on a whole host of platforms, most notably on Symbian.  Rafe and I caught up with Director of Product Management, Naga Hariharan, to find out about their next addition — Quickoffice Connect — which enables you to [...]

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Episode 142: I’m loving the Jabra Clipper headset

Whilst I’m a big fan of the Jabra range of bluetooth headsets, I’m an even bigger fan of their latest — it’s called the Jabra Clipper and although it’s a bluetooth headset, it’s also simply perfect for consuming music (and everything else) on your handset.  Of course, the experience on the iPhone is simply fantastic.  [...]

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Episode 141: Iain Dendle discusses and demos Shazam

We popped by to say hi to music recognition and discovery service, Shazam, at Mobile World Congress to find out more about the company’s progress and to film a demo of their latest Symbian client.  Here we go…

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Episode 140: Peter Lindgren demonstrates Mobile Documents

We’ve been following Peter Lindgren and his colleagues at Visiarc for a few years now.  At MWC 2009, we saw their first early alpha of Mobile Documents and this year we managed to get an exclusive look at the current version which is almost ready for launch.  The power and potential of Mobile Documents is [...]

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Episode 139: The Rafe Blandford Interview

Rafe Blandford — founder and editor of All About Symbian — is known throughout the world as one of the foremost experts on the Symbian platform.  When Rafe and I were filming at the Symbian headquarters in London, we had a spare 25 minutes just before lunch.  I took advantage of the opportunity to put [...]

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Episode 138: Symbian’s Effie Vraka talks multimedia

Effie Vraka is Symbian‘s multimedia application technology specialist.  We sat down with her to find out more about the kinds of multimedia capabilities we should expect to see in future versions of Symbian.

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Episode 137: Lars Kurth discusses contributing to Symbian

How easy is it to contribute to the Symbian Foundation?  Well there’s a burgeoning developer community and, as Lars Kurth (The Symbian Foundation Community Manager) explains, contribution and committing responsibility is based on a system of meritocracy.  Anyone can get involved.  Anyone.  Really.  If you’re interested in getting stuck in, definitely have a look at [...]

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