With Serie A you can get all the latest results, lineups, rankings and scorers on your Nokia touch device. A home screen widget is also available to get live updates on the match results!

Check out the following video to see Serie A in action.

You can download Serie A from the Ovi Store.

This first release includes the following newspapers:

• Ansa
• Corriere della Sera
• Corriere dello Sport
• Gazzetta dello Sport
• Il Giornale
• Il Mattino
• Il Messaggero
• Il Sole 24 Ore
• La Repubblica
• La Stampa
• Tuttosport

You can download News Italy from the Ovi Store.

The features of this first release include:

• All the Regional and National versions of the Italian TeleText (Televideo RAI)
• Full-screen landscape mode

You can download TeleText Italy from the Ovi Store.

Features include:

• TV listings for the next 7 days
• See what’s on TV in every moment
• Search functionality, to find all your favorite programs
• Home Screen widget (for N97 and N97 Mini)

TV Guide Italy is available on the Ovi Store.

The first project is for a widget that allows the user to perform searches through the Bing search engine.

Its code shows how many widgets’ common features can be implemented, including:

• integrate a public REST API
• retrieve and show dynamic data from network
• detect and adapt to different screen resolutions
• handle touch and key-based user interaction
• show tabbed views
• download dynamic code updates and new versions of the widget

The second widget is a configurable RSS reader supporting multiple RSS feeds at once. The widget is easily adaptable to different needs, where retrieval and displaying of remote XML feeds is needed.

The last project is a client for Google’s Buzz social network: the current functionalities include searching by keyword, and retrieving of Buzzes of a single user. Many more features are under development: feel free to take a look and integrate yours

As these are open source projects, everyone is invited to dig into the code and to contribute to the them: just join the project, and start experimenting! To start, visit Forum Nokia Projects.

Specifically:

• Fixed the 3 star rating bug: now the correct rating will be shown for all items
• Broken content removed: items with missing pieces (e.g.: title, thumbnail) now will not be visible anymore
• Optimized data loading: new data is now loaded only when necessary, to optimize network traffic
• JavaScript code reduced, to diminish start-up time
• Other small fixes

So, this download is recommended for all users that have already downloaded Ovi Show!, and have experienced these or other issues. You can download it using the following link, or by using the Ovi Show! inbuilt update mechanism.

For this reason, It’s a pleasure to see Dr. Jukka releasing a new set of UI components, specifically intended for S60 touch devices.

Here is the full list of components:

• Accordion
• Busy
• Button
• Carousel
• Checkbox
• LightBox
• Optionsbox
• ProgressBar
• Radiobox
• Rating
• TextLabel
• ToggleSwitch
• ToggleSwitch list

Components’ documentation is available on Forum Nokia Wiki, and you can also preview the components online, by using this page.

Good job Jukka!

With different backgrounds, we all aim at providing useful information about the mobile environment, in all its aspects. From its manifesto:

The aim of this community is to share as much as possible information related to the mobile development using all the social networks and the new capabilities of the NET to make easier find updated contents and to create a deep feeling of connection between developers.

The journey is at the beginning, hope you’ll join in!

I’m happy to say that one of my widgets (Guida TV) won the second country prize for Italy!!!

Now, the second phase of the competition is running, and you can vote for the eight finalists to decide which will be the overall winner!  Public voting will end on 21st May, and by sending your preference you will also have a chance to win a brand new Vodafone H1 device.

Changes in this last release include:

• Samples and packaging information for Platform Services 2.0
• Guidelines and how-to’s for home-screen widgets
• Optimization of performances and battery life

If you’re a mobile Web developer, check it out!