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The love child of Nokia’s cozying up to Eclipse and its purchase of Metrowerks’ Symbian tools and team has been born:

Nokia has introduced a new family of Symbian C++ development tools christened “Carbide.c++”.

It interesting to note that Carbide.c++ tools support not only Nokia’s Series 60 and Series 80, but also UIQ favored by Sony Ericsson in devices such as its new P990 smartphone. Time and hands-on experience with Carbide will tell how useful Nokia’s tools really are for targeting SE devices!

Details on each of the three members of the Carbide.c++ family (Express, Developer, and Professional) are available from Forum Nokia’s Carbide homepage. Specifics on the free Express product are available from the Carbide.c++ Express datasheet.

C. Enrique Ortiz notes that the JSR-271 expert group is asking developers to take an online survey to help them best craft the UI features specified in the upcoming MIDP 3.

Get the latest status on JSR-271 and click here to take the MIDP 3 UI survey.

Given the number of click-throughs I’m seeing in my Google AdSense reports, context specific ads seem to be useful for many site visitors.

To that end, I’ve decided to also offer Google link units at the bottom of each blog post including the first post on my homepage. These link units allow you to pull up a list of ads for one of several topics related to the content of the particular blog entry.

I’m watching to see if link units are also the subjects of click-through love and will decide whether to keep them after a few weeks have elapsed.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, let me know what you think.