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.

Google has just launched Google App Inventor:

From the App Inventor’s website:

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

Apart from the coolness of the tool, the question that arises into my mind is: is there the need for these development tools for non-developers?

As I can’t imagine a developer using these tools, I can’t equally think of a non-developer even imagine that such a tool can exist: what do you think about it?

(via Scott) – Paul Trani posted a presentation about creating Flash Content for Mobile Devices. Enjoy:

Youtube mobile website got a major update today including a faster and more finger-friendly user interface. Youtube also announced that YouTube Mobile now receives more than 100 million video playbacks a day, a good reason for a big update. Watch the presentation video below:

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.

For those of you who want to take advantage of the new features of the Flash player 10.1 and AIR2 using Flash Builder 4: the Flex 4.1 SDK includes Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2. Just download the Flex 4.1 SDK, unzip it and point your Flash Builder projects towards the new location. To see the new API’s (MultiTouch, Geolocation, Accelerometer…) show up in code hinting simply change the target Flash Player version in the project’s properties to point to 10.1.0. That’s all! Cheers to Renaun for pointing this out.

Hi all, what I’ve been into lately is testing some tools for getting a descent cross platform development framework. What I’ve been testing most was PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, Golden Gecko and Whoop. The last 2 are not open platforms neither do they target developers (but rather designers) so I won’t mention them any further. For those of you who may be interested you may contact the guys for a demo. The first 2 are open source. Read more »

Adobe released a test version of Flash to the public about a month ago, but this is the real launch of the finished product. Flash 10.1 should now be available for download on phones using the latest version of Android, 2.2, which is known as FroYo.

And the company says it has shipped Flash to its other device partners, so that Flash should soon be available on BlackBerry, Palm webOS, Windows Phone 7, LiMo, MeeGo, and Symbian phones — basically, all the major smartphones except for Apple’s.

Read the full article here.

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices.

Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualizations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more. Flash Player 10.1 allows you to make your web content contextually relevant and reach more users across a wide spectrum of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, netbooks, and PCs. New mobile-ready features take advantage of native device capabilities that include support for touch, gestures, mobile input models, accelerometer, and screen orientation, bringing unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the mobile browsing experience.

Discover how to optimize web content for mobile delivery in this interesting article.