As posted on the JQuery blog, Microsoft will make it part of their development platform, as it will be distributed with Visual Studio. This includes Intellisense support, and will not replace their other technologies, but rather complement it.

In the same blog post, Jquery announced that Nokia will included it in their Web run-time, their widget platform for S60.

This should help new developers, possibly in 100% microsoft shops, discover JQuery, maybe even without knowing they're using an open source tool.

Nokia announced today its intention to buy Symbian shares it din't already own, and the start of a new Symbian Foundation with the help of other parties interested in Symbian (like AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and others).

Nokia will contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ.

The eventual goal is to propose an open source platform for mobile computing licensed under the EPL.

Although it's only an announcement at this stage, the least we can say is that it's an interesting one. Let's see what materialises, and how this Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance will do in the future.

Nokia, the biggest mobile phone manufacturer, announced its intention to acquire Trolltech, maker of the famous Qt toolkit, but also Qtopia, the mobile application platform. QT is available under the GPL, and widely used by free and open source programmers, most notably as the base of the KDE desktop environment. Nokia intends to use Trolltech's cross platform experience to boost its S40 and S60 mobile phone platforms, based on Symbian, the leading mobile phone operating system, which is not open source.

Although Nokia announced plans to continue the development of Trolltech's products, there are clearly some conflicts in sight. Maemo, Nokia's linux based platform used in their internet tablet N800 and N810, is based on the GTK toolkit, another open source toolkit used in the Gnome desktop environment. Qtopia can also be seen as a competitor of both Maemo and S60.

The availability of Qt to free and open source developers is garanteed though, thanks to the KDE free Qt foundation, founded by Trolltech and KDE in 1998.