Verivo made the first move to position itself in the race for the next generation of software vendors by expanding its charter, the next step will be the right partnerships as well as convincing enterprises that its mobile application platform is the right choice to speed mobile app development.

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Accordingly, Nokia has begun work on its plan to have a single platform based on the Qt framework for native application development.

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For developers, the uniform Symbian platform together with the Qt development environment enables easy smartphone application creation and extensive reach.

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