Milford, CT, July 8, 2008 – DataViz®, Inc., the leading provider of Office compatibility solutions today announced the availability of Documents To Go®  Premium Edition 4 for Symbian OS™ based UIQ 3.0 and 3.1 smartphones.  The award winning mobile office suite will now enable customers to view, edit and create Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® Office 2007 files and attachments instantly on their devices.

Other New Features Include:
• Support for password-protected files (Word & Excel 97-2004, X, XP)
• Support for Text (.TXT) files
• Edit and insert hyperlinks in word processing files
• Edit and insert bookmarks in word processing files
• View charts in spreadsheets
• Freeze/unfreeze panes in spreadsheets

Pricing & Availability
Documents To Go Premium Edition 4.0 for Symbian smartphones based on UIQ 3.0 and 3.1 retails for $49.99 and is available directly from DataViz as well as many retail and online stores including Handango.com, Mobihand.com and the network of DataViz resellers and distributors worldwide.  Upgrade pricing of $29.99 is available directly from DataViz for all previous Documents To Go UIQ customers.  Supported devices include Sony Ericsson M600, P990, W950i, W960i, P1i, G700, G900 and the Motorola  MOTO Z8 and Z10. For more information and to download a free evaluation, visit www.dataviz.com/symbian

The site contains extensive tutorials on Pys60, that means we have more code snippets, more articles and more Pys60 applications. The Pys60 tutorials on croozeus.com are indented to new beginners of Python for S60 as well as advanced learns of the same to widen their scope of knowledge. The tutorials as well written with comments in the code snippets where-ever required. Currently we have tutorials for the almost all the modules in Pys60 as well as some useful extensions that would be adding extended functionality to Python for S60.

More on the Croozeus site, or read more at their blog.

"TAT’s technology enables S60 developers to push UI boundaries to even greater heights. Developers can now easily add advanced graphics such as 3D, change effects and also add skins without having to change existing software or add expensive hardware."

TAT's full news post is here.

It’s been said — by someone, I can’t recall — that being an entrepreneur is about being naieve, i.e. If you actually knew how difficult it might be, you wouldn’t bother. Most of us don’t. But now and again, a chap or chappess wakes up one morning, sticks a door horizontal on a pile of bricks in his garage and sets up Amazon. And thank the Capitalist Dieties that he or she does. The world thrives on innovation. Without innovation we’d still be trying to get those square wheels to work. Almost every industry you can name thrives on innovation too. Everyone benefits. It’s nigh on exactly as dependable as the laws of physics.

But — and this, I know, a sweeping statement — generally, most innovation in mobile never actually gets past the starting block. Because it’s a closed world.

More on being trapped in Mobile Hell at SMSTextNews.

From the Beta Labs blog:

Over the next few weeks Nokia Maps team will conduct a piece of research for the Drive car navigation feature within Nokia Maps 2.0. We’re looking for a range of users, from novice to experienced, who are based in London, Berlin or Madrid and have been using Drive within Maps 2.0 actively. Hands-on experience with other car navigation products is a big plus too.

If you are using the Drive feature actively, and are based in London, Berlin or Madrid, and happen to have some free time in your city during weeks commencing with July 21st and July 28th, this is an opportunity for you to influence the development of the car navigation feature for the next software release.

Nokia carries out a lot of user research when preparing or road mapping its product, but it is good to see an opportunity for people to volunteer. Hopefully this will allow the self-selection of the people most passionate about the future of the product.

There's already some insightful content on the site, the first topic is a look at how the mobile industry is set to take advantage of nanoscience. There also a blog from Nokia's current CTO Bob Iannucci.

You can read more information about plans for the site here, a short extract is below:

Since Nokia embraced the Open Innovation research model two years ago, the collective work of OCTO extends far out into a global network of researchers and thought leaders at universities, think tanks, and the broader industry. OCTO’s eight hundred or so employees are its heart, but this broader community is becoming ever more critical to its success. Sharing OCTO’s vision for the future of mobility with the worldwide community, sparking an active dialogue, and fostering feedback channels are all necessary for bringing OCTO’s ideas to ever-higher thresholds.

The initial set of content revolves around blogs from Bob Iannucci, internal staff, and eventually external partners. There is also information on upcoming speaking events where OCTO and NRC staff will be presenting, and a stream of news stories that impact Nokia and the mobility industry as a whole.

In the upcoming months further content, features and new communications capabilities will be added to the site, evolving it into a full bilateral communications portal going forward.

It is great to see Nokia continuing to role out these types of initiatives. Interacting with the community through sites like CTO.nokia.com, Nokia Conversations, Forum Nokia Blogs, Nokia Beta Labs and the S60 Blogs not only sends a general positive message, but also opens up opportunities for discussion which will be to the benefit of all.

With all these avenues opening up it would be good to see a central gateway and, ideally, aggregator, leading to all these resources. Blogs.Nokia.com or Connecting.Nokia.com perhaps? A single point of entry would make it easier for interested parties to find and follow these resources. And why not expand this list at the same time?

Here's a screenshot overview of the site: