mocoNews - Nokia Courts Developers With Web To Widget Converters

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James Quintana Pearce

mocoNews.net
Tuesday, June 9, 2009; 5:00 PM

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is well aware that applications are suddenly important to handsets; irrespective of quality or diversity the quantity of apps available will be a battle-field. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) fired the first volleys when the iPhone just came out, and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tried to ignore it until recently when it got some big numbers to throw around?it put up a chart at WWDC emphasising this (Business Insider). Nokia's latest effort at promoting content is a series of Widget creation tools for Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visual Studio and Aptana Studio which convert the web-based services into mobile widgets for Symbian S60 gadgets. It means developers will be able to write the programs in languages they're used to like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax Code, and then convert them. Nokia plans to have eight languages within 30 days: Traditional and simplified Chinese, English, Germany, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. (release)

Symbian was also at WWDC trying to poach iPhone developers with a robo rubber duckie, as Engadget notes.

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