Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category

Nokia Releases QT 4.2.6

Nokia Announced today that it has released QT 4.2.6 cross-platform application and UI framework. So what does this mean? Well for starters, a better platform than any previous versions before it.
This will be interesting to download and use as it brings in much anticipated features such as the Smart installer for Symbian (BETA). There is [...]

Nokia today announced that it will now be offering version 3.03 and higher of Ovi Maps free forever. This is a welcome move the Finnish based mobile phone maker has made.
With an estimated 27 million users using their mobile handsets for GPS Navigation on both Walk-to and Drive-by navigation, this number would be expected to [...]

Technology Notes in the Wee Hours of the Night

It’s another Sunday evening, well actually its Monday morning right now. For those that know me you are probably thinking, well, that’s not so strange.
On my part I have to say that personally I am thinking this is quite strange. I still got hours to burn and I am not writing a single line of [...]

Sometimes I don’t like to talk about others products as we all know how each one of us can get carried away and say things we really shouldn’t have. Of course when one reads in a blog and takes note that the writer of the blog has slipped in a couple of words that does [...]

Seeing its slightly over a month since MariaDB 1.5 Beta was released for Linux and a couple of days now since the Windows Win32 Version came into being I felt it prudent to mention a little a bit about it for now.
So to start off I’d like to mention about it’s history. For starters [...]

Another Chapter in Sobbayi

Now that Sobbayi.com 3.0 has gone live, I kinda feel relieved. It’s like a tonne of bricks has been lifted from the top of my head. After shutting down Sobbayi.com 2.0 earlier this year, I never thought this day would come. Back then I decided to just run my blog and leave it at that.
I [...]

We all know what Ubuntu is. At least theoretically anyway. Again maybe not. Anyway “Karmic Koala” is the code name for Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10, scheduled for release on 29th October 2009. This is the Linux version that has been hyped to take on Microsoft’s Windows 7.
I guess that still doesn’t answer the question as to [...]

A Quick Update on Sobbayi

Well its now been a couple of months since I did any meaningful maintenance on the main section of this website. I would attribute that to two main reasons. The first being I had a bit of developers block, or whatever we developers call it.
Secondly and I guess the real reason is basically I was [...]

Mobile financial services from Nokia

Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services has been introduced by Nokia
It  has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s [...]

Up to Speed with Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala

If the recent release of Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope is anything to go by then Karmic Koala is definitely going to live up to its name. Speaking of Names, where do these guys come up with these names? Anyway Ubuntu has announced that its next release is expected in October later this year.
Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu’s founder [...]