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Episode 164: Meffys Best Consumer Experience – FindaProperty.com

Congratulations to the team at FindaProperty who won the Best Consumer Experience category at the Meffys Awards 2010 for their iPhone application. Thanks go to The Symbian Foundation for supporting the production of videos from the event. Thank you Symbian, you rock!

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Episode 163: Best Ad Campaign at the Meffys 2010 – Fancharge

Congratulations to the team at Fancharge who won the Best Ad Campaign category at the Meffys Awards 2010. Thanks go to The Symbian Foundation for supporting the production of videos from the event. Thank you Symbian, you rock!

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Episode 161: The Meffys 2010 Introduction Video

I took the camera along to the Mobile Entertainment Forum‘s annual award ceremony, The Meffys, to capture the winners on camera, thanks to the generous support of The Symbian Foundation. First up, it’s the video played at the start of the ceremony showing the work behind the awards and introducing some of the judges. You’ll [...]

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Episode 148: David Wood’s take on MWC

Outside WIPJam at Mobile World Congress, Rafe and I came across David Wood, formerly of Symbian and now founder of independent consultancy, Delta Wisdom.  We asked David if he’d give us his perspective on the event.  He didn’t hold back!  Nice one David!

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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 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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Episode 134: Sebastian Brannstrom on Symbian’s release management

We sat down with Sebastian Brannstrom, Symbian’s Release Manager, to find out how the Foundation produces each of it’s software releases.  Sebastian also talks about how they’re looking forward to seeing contributions from the open source community.  If you’re thinking about getting stuck in, definitely check out this video and drop a note over to [...]

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