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

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

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!

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.

A new website for Nokia developers has just been launched: NokiaDevs.com

The website will feature daily conversations with Nokia developers: if you want to share your experience and thoughts about mobile development, talking about your mobile apps and projects, you can contact NokiaDevs team here.

Amazon has announced support for embedded video and audio clips in Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The first books to take advantage of this new technology are Rick Steves’ London by Rick Steves and Together We Cannot Fail by Terry Golway.

It’s a tiny improvement, given the small number of titles that support audio and video embeds, but it has interesting implications. Now, the Kindle experience is officially more advanced, at least in certain aspects, on the iPad than on the Kindle. Of course, the Kindle is a very different beast from the iPad: its e-ink screen aims, first and foremost, to make reading books an enjoyable, effortless experience.

The iPad’s screen, while far more advanced in other areas, is (at least in theory) not so easy on the eyes, especially in longer reading sessions. Read here the announcement.

Nokia published Top 15 Ovi Store Countries (and device in alphabetical order based on visits): China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam. Read more »

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

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.

Forum Nokia just released and useful AIR tool for mobile prototyping: Flowella.

Flowella is an easy to use tool that enables designers and developers to create design prototypes — without writing a line of code. Prototypes are built using images of screen mock-ups and defining links between the screens. This information is then used to create an Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 application or Web Runtime (WRT) widget. These applications can then be run on one of over seventy Nokia devices or in a simulator supplied with Flowella, enabling the application interaction to be assessed.