Developers from around the world participated in Qualcomm's 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge and created rich AR experiences including interactive games, educational applications, and marketing concepts. These apps use Qualcomm's AR platform, which includes the AR SDK for Android and the AR Extension for Unity. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners February 15th!

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Have you ever been annoyed for not being able to borrow a friend's or a colleague's mobile phone charger because it wasn't compatible with your phone? This era is coming to an end. A common charger compatible with mobile phones of all brands is the simple idea that the Commission has been pushing for many years. Thanks to the cooperation between fourteen companies and the European Commission the solution is there: onechargerforall.eu. New technical standards for data-enabled mobile phones were published on 29 December 2010. Today, Vice President Antonio Tajani receives a sample of a compatible common charger from Bridget Cosgrave, Director-General of DIGITALEUROPE, the largest Association of European digital technology industry.

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Hello there,

There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
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NewsFlow is a client to Google Reader service which is used for reading RSS feeds from various sources. The  NewsFlow client based on Qt Quick technology and the application runs on Symbian^3, Maemo and upcoming MeeGo devices.

Application contains the following features:

• List unread items
• Show item details: Title, source, date and summary
• For each item, user can:
  • Mark item as read
  • Mark item as favourite (star)
  • Open original item in web browser
  • Tag items

Feature roadmap for next versions:

• Show unread items based on tags
• What else would you like to have? Add a ticket or start discussion!

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The Nseries blog just published another post about 10 things you didnt know about Ovi. Head over to this post to find out if you know all of the 10... 

Did you know that "Ovi" means "door" in Finnish?

[Thx Jonas]

In light of Facebooks "new message" addition and today's "deals" via Facebook "places", where does this leave Twitter and Foursquare? Facebook's 'new messages' are being rolled out in the UK as I write.  Do not worry if you are one of those who have not yet had an invite, you will!  The new service enables you and your friends to send messages from Facebook free of charge, which are delivered as sms/text messages to your phone.

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The Firefox team has released a new Firefox 4 Beta version of their Web Browser for the Nokia N900 and Android devices. You can get Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta from the Android Market to test on your Google Android device or go here to get Firefox 4 Beta on your Nokia Maemo device. This release is the fastest performing Firefox 4 Beta for mobile yet. You will notice faster start-up, page load times and responsiveness to panning and zooming. The Firefox Mobile Add-ons Gallery also offers more than 100 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of your Web experience.

The guys at Nokia just published the part #2 of the "10 things you didnt know about Nokia" post. You can find the Part #2 here and the Part #1 here

The original Nokia logo (a merger between Finnish Rubber Works and the Nokia Wood Mill) was incorporated into Nokia in 1871: