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What is happening with SymbianSigned ? The site has encountered a lot of difficulties since several months and I am just amazed to see how they cannot get rid of them. Commercial developers have avoided most of the problem since Symbian tried to keep their access up and running but hese time are now over...

We will upgrade the software of our server today at the end of the afternoon. The site and forum will be down for approximatively two hours, starting at 16:00 CET.

Have you noticed the new search box in the top right corner of the web site ? ou are now able to search easily on the whole newlc.com website at a time, on the forum or the editorial part only, on a list of predefined websites focusing on Symbian development or on the whole Internet...

We are looking for some a cool artwork to make NewLC T-Shirt. Those T-Shirt will be given to our most active users so we want them to be fun, a bit geeky, and related to smartphones. If you can design such artwork... get in touch with me!

With the reunification of the editorial site and the forum, we are now able to identify easily our best contributors (aka active users). The two new blocks on the left shows you the people which have contributed the most to the site in the last 30 days and since the beginning...

If you are a registered user on this site and our forum, please check that your email adress is the same in both accounts. Those will be merged on next Tuesday (June, 12th) and we need you to have a single email adress (or you may end up with two separate accounts!).

We will upgrade our web server to a more powerful machine on next Tuesday (June, 12th) afternoon. The website and forum will be unavailable from 14:00 CET for approximately two hours.

And here is another feature that has been deployed this morning: author reward. The Google Adsense revenue generated by a web page will be completely given to the author, provided that he has himself an Adsense account and he correctly setup his profile.

You may have noticed a new panel on the left side of the site called Community Search. This will allow to search several sites of interest for Symbian OS developers at once (typically newlc.com, forum.newlc.com, developer.symbian.com, developer.uiq.com, developer.sonyericsson.com, forum.nokia.com, discussion.forum.nokia.com and a few other) with a limited noise from other less specialized sources.

Here is a major new feature of the new site: the blogs. A place to post thoughts or small pages that did not fit in the previous structure of the site. This is currently open to NewLC employees only but we intend to extend it to selected users in the future.