by Katherine Barrios on April 22, 2010
Tell us what you think of Qt and enter to win a Nokia N900! It is that simple. As part of our ongoing efforts to better understand our users’ and community’s development needs, we are conducting our annual Qt User Survey. This is your chance to tell us what you think of Qt and what [...]
by Adam Walhout on March 24, 2010
Sunniwell Co., Ltd, a Beijing-based solution provider of digital multimedia Set-Top Boxes (STBs) has used Qt to build the user interface (UI) for its latest hotel infotainment system. As chic boutique lodgings and four and five star hotels aim to provide the very best in customer service, infotainment services are becoming the must-have ‘digital concierge’ [...]
by Daniel Kihlberg on March 23, 2010
March 2010 seems to be the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) / Set Top Box (STB) global convention month with customers showcasing Qt based UIs at two major exhibitions which now are taking place, CCBN in China and IPTV World Forum in England. We are excited to see that Qt value proposition of providing higher productivity [...]
by David Stone on February 8, 2010
Digital game retailer Green Man Gaming is on the verge of launching a first-of-its-kind trade-in service for video games, and they used Qt to deliver it. In 2010, large sections of most markets are very comfortable obtaining their purchased content via download rather than buying it on a physical medium like a DVD. But in [...]
by David Stone on January 11, 2010
We’ve shown a little of what we’re demonstrating at CES this year, so today we decided to hit the road and look at some Qt-powered demos and products elsewhere at CES. First, something very cool in the automotive space is being shown by Visteon. Using the in-vehicle infotainment reference platform from the GENIVI alliance, Visteon [...]
by David Stone on January 9, 2010
Question: How was CES day two at the Qt booth? Answer: Hectic. We have been busy trolls…. Meetings with partners, tours by analyst groups, media visits and visits from people new to Qt have kept the people busy and the booth overflowing into the hallway. It’s been very positive to receive the high levels of [...]
by David Stone on January 8, 2010
CES. The Consumer Electronics Show. Words can’t describe its scale. Even the pizza here is big. It’s far and away the biggest, baddest electronics trade show on earth. Qt is back at CES in 2010, and on day one we’ve been meeting, greeting and wowing with the Qt story. We have four key messages this [...]
by David Stone on December 23, 2009
Animators and filmmakers are matching Qt with open source 3D rendering engine OGRE to create pioneering animations. Qt is frequently the application framework of choice for developers using the OGRE toolset, with the two used in tandem to build everything from sprawling animated scenes to highly featured facial animation systems. One such system is Frapper. [...]
by David Stone on December 22, 2009
This month’s successful rollout of Qt 4.6 was helped hugely by our amazing dev community. As the first major release since we began accepting contributions, we were overwhelmed by the number and quality of the submissions we received. So it goes without saying that we are very grateful. As such, we thought it’d be nice [...]
by David Stone on December 22, 2009
Our Qt Everywhere blogs showcase examples of industry leaders using Qt and bring insights straight from the ‘industry floor’ as we examine some of our users and their experiences working with Qt. Today we feature open source visualization experts Kitware, who use the Qt Application and UI framework for open source 3D modeling in high [...]
by David Stone on December 17, 2009
Qt Everywhere is a new series we will run from time to time on this blog. It showcases examples of industry leaders using Qt and gets insights straight from the ‘industry floor’, as we examine some of our users and their experiences working with Qt. Today we are looking at how Linux device leader Xandros [...]
by Aron Kozak on December 3, 2009
In a new series we want to run here on this blog, we will be bringing you opinions straight from the ‘industry floor’, as we speak to some of our users about their experiences working with Qt. To kick things off we are speaking with Ms. Cho Eunil, Chief Software Engineer at LG-Nortel. The company [...]