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.You will learn first-hand from Nokia’s experts, and peers in the developer community who can show you the ropes. We’ll give you everything you need to take advantage of the enormous opportunity that is presented by Ovi, whose global scale and reach is unparalleled by any other mobile platform.

First, we’ll introduce you to the latest tools and technologies that you need to get started, including Qt, Web Runtime and Ovi. Then you will get a chance to start working right away, participating in live technology demos and hands-on coding sessions where you will be able to apply everything that you’ve learned. These sessions are going to be deep-dives that immerse you in APIs, SDKs, and WebKits. And rest assured: There won’t be any PowerPoint presentations during these sessions.

Join the summit the @ London the 14th and 15th of September, all the info are available here.

From today the iPad, the revolutionary Apple tablet, is finally available for italian customers! You can take a look to the iPad specifications here… Prices and plans are a little bit expensive but if you were waiting for this event you can finally get your dream gadget from one of the official stores or directly online from Apple. Good luck!

Today, and after unveiling it at Google I/O, Facebook released its official Facebook SDK for the Android platform.

With the current release Android developers can finally transform their apps into social gateways. Specifically, these are the features built into this first SDK release:

• Strong authentication using OAuth 2.0
• Making requests to the new Graph API
• Publishing stories back to Facebook via Feed forms

For all the Android VS iPhone fans, this SDK actually brings to Android developers a feature that is still unavailable to Applers: the Graph API, introduced with the purpose to simplify and uniform the access to Facebook contents and relationships.

To get started, point your browsers here!

Take a look to the application in action in the video above.

Samsung has recently launched a competition for its brand new mobile OS platform, Bada: the Bada Developer Challenge. The prize pool is massive: $2.700.000!!

To participate, you have to create a Bada application that fits one or more of these categories:

• Mates and dates
• Entertain me
• Freaks and geeks
• Easy life
• In the workplace
• On the road
• Older and wiser
• Down to business

Where to start? Check out the Bada APIs, read the Developer Guide, and download the IDE and SDK from Samsung Developer Site.

More information about the contest is available here.

The Wired iPad application just went live on the AppStore. It has all the visual impact of paper, enhanced by interactive elements like video and animated infographics. A great example about how to improve user experience depending on the media we’re using. Take a look at the video above or read more from Wired.

PacketVideo, the brand behind some of the most widely adopted and used mobile multimedia solutions, is currently looking for two Mobile Web software engineers in San Diego. Job scope is:

• Design, implement and optimize portable multimedia Web 2.0 clients for mobile devices according to detailed user interface specifications.
• Implement asynchronous interfaces for client-server interaction

About PacketVideo:

PV’s software products form the foundation for audience-interactive media experiences that give your consumers the freedom to enjoy multimedia however, whenever and wherever they want. PV’s software gives users greater access and control over their media experience, increasing the value of your services and helping you differentiate your brand. PV’s customers include the world’s leading mobile operators, such as Verizon Wireless, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, all top ten handset manufacturers, and numerous consumer electronics companies and media-savvy consumers worldwide.

More informations are available here.

Adobe recently announced the public availability of the Adobe AIR for Android Developer Prerelease program. Any designer or developer interested in building Android applications using the Flash Platform is welcome to join this program to get access to the beta SDK.

At Google I/O Vic Gundotra, Google VP Engineering announced Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.5 running on FroYo.  The launch represents a milestone that we’ve been working towards for some time, and all of us at Adobe are hugely excited to see Flash Player 10.1 finally get into the hands of consumers. [more from Mark...]

Even if those announcements are all about Android OS the final target mobile operating systems for Flash Player also include Windows Phone 7, webOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry. This is a really exciting news for all Flash Mobile developers out there!

If you don’t have an Android device yet, you can already begin using this technology for your latest cool mobile project! Greg Wilson has an useful post about what you’ll need to start developing Android AIR apps today.

As many of you know Nokia is focused on emergin technologies and news, there is a project inside the research web site of Nokia related to the augmented reality that looks to me very interesting.

The Mobile Augmented Reality Applications project (MARA) explores utilizing camera equipped mobile devices as platforms for sensor-based, video see-through mobile augmented reality. The project also investigates new and exciting applications enabled by this technology, and UI solutions and paradigms motivated by the restrictions of the mobile devices.

You can get all the info about hardware, demos, and how it works from this page.

An interesting Flash Lite-related webinar is scheduled by Forum Nokia this month: Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite.

In this webinar, Robert Burdick of Forum Nokia and Kirk Ballou of Flash Widgets LLC will show you how to build great video and multimedia based applications on Nokia smartphones with Nokia Web Runtime and Adobe Flash Lite. Starting with an overview of video format and codecs supported by the devices, you will quickly know which devices to target your applications to. Next, you’ll learn the basics of doing video playback in Flash Lite via streaming or progressive download. Then you’ll see how easy it is to combine your web programming skills with Flash Lite’s multimedia capabilities to create great rich mobile Internet multimedia applications. You’ll also see some great examples of polished, commercial applications that bring the mobile experience to life with video!

Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite EMEA
27 May: 2 p.m. London | 4 p.m. Helsinki

Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite AMERICAS
27 May: 11 a.m. San Francisco | 2 p.m. New York