To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give your idea a certain shape, keeping it abstract and not losing yourself in details.

SmashingMagazine prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that we can use in our projects. They’ve carefully selected the most useful kits and resources to get you going in the early stages of a project. Enjoy!

(vai Vivek) – Nice presentation “a selection of thoughts on the 2010 mobile landscape from yiibu.” Enjoy.

Jailbreaking your iPhone or other mobile device will no longer violate federal copyright law, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled Monday.

The decision, part of a process that takes place every three years, said that bypassing a manufacturer’s protection mechanisms to allow “handsets to execute software applications” is permissible. The Copyright Office also allowed bypassing the anticopying technology used in DVDs, but only for “documentary filmmaking,” noncommercial videos, and educational uses–a ruling that stopped short of allowing Americans to legally make a backup copy for their own use, in case the original DVD gets damaged. It also doesn’t apply to making backup copies of video game discs or Blu-ray discs. Now it’s the time to wait and see what will happen in the future also to the Packager for iPhone created by Adobe because this “decision” probably will change something also at Apple and some restrictions can start to be removed.

Here is a good article for those that havn’t seen it from which you can get the point of view of Adobe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/…Apple-or-the-iPad.html.

Nokia continues to invite developers to apply to the Open Screen Project Fund to get money to create mobile apps and distribute them in more than 190 countries worldwide via Nokia’s Ovi Store.

For more information, or if you know someone that should submit an idea for an app, please visit:http://www.openscreenproject.org/developers/get_started.html

If you own an Android 2.2 (Froyo) device you must know that you can already start building (and testing!) your AIR 2.5 applications for Android. There’s more: if you are an FDT user like me you should be glad to know that is very easy to build and package our AIR4Android applications without even leaving our favorite tool!

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Nokia just announced the top 10 finalists for the Ovi app wizard prize category in the Calling All Innovator 2010 competition. All submissions were reviewed based on the following judging criteria: Innovativeness of the apps, Cumulative number of downloads on July 15th, Quality of your marketing materials.

Here the top 10 finalists for the Ovi app wizard prize category:

• Alessandro Pace: FlashLite4Nokia
• Dale Rankine: Toy Tragic
• Hany Gohary: GoNintendo
• Chintan Umraliya: MobApps.org
• Steve Litchfield: The Phones Show
• Oscar Iñiguez de la Torre Bernabeu: PickUp Lines
• Nur Nachman Eytan: Purple Cookie
• Jussi Soro: DJ Jussi Soro Application
• David Adhira: What Miami
• Jean-Francois Barsoum: Skeptical Science

A big congrats to all the finalists! …and GOOD LUCK!

Lucian Tomuta, from Forum Nokia, has just posted a really informative video showing the Nokia Qt SDK in action. The video shows how easy is to build and test a Qt application on both the desktop Qt simulator and on a real device.

The original article is available here.

The Forum Nokia Developer Summit will take place in London – September 14-15. This year the Nokia Developer Summit is held in conjunction with Nokia World. As Nokia’s biggest event, this offers you new opportunities to meet professionals from every part of the mobile industry. You’ll also find big-name guest speakers, business streams, and an Experience Lounge packed with the very latest products, services and solutions.

Take a look to the official event website for more info.

As from wikipedia: Cognitive radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which either a network or a wireless node changes its transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently avoiding interference with licensed or unlicensed users.

This is one of the current core research topics of Nokia Research:

Cognitive radio is one of the core research topics of Nokia Research. Faster data transmission in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) will enable new mobile use cases and increase the quality of current services, but we are already taking steps to the future in cognitive radio. We aim to empower a new realm of devices and services through optimised connectivity, where devices use the available spectrum in a dynamic and flexible fashion.

Here’s a recent video looking at the work Nokia has been doing with cognitive radio, very interesting:

Read more about Nokia Research here.

Windows Phone 7 is not yet released and there are already some opinions that make me worried about this platform.

There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7  will be a failure. Announced to much bravado in February as the platform that would breathe life into Microsoft’s mobile ambitions, Windows Phone 7 looked based on very early previews as if it might bring something new and exciting to the table. Back then, I noted that I was impressed by what I saw — with the caveat “so far.”
No caveats now: Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with. Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that it’s out of the mobile game for good. It is supposed to ship around Christmas 2010, but anyone who gets one will prefer a lump of coal. I really mean that.

Read more here about the overall impression of the upcoming Microsoft platform.