“If you want to get a idea of where the telecommunications
industry may be heading, just take a look at where Haavard Nord has
been. The chief executive officer of the Norwegian software company
Trolltech, a company best known for writing the Qt graphics engine
that lies at the heart of the open source graphical user interface
KDE, Nord says he first noticed a sudden shift in travel
destinations about four years ago.“Prior to that, his company had put together a stripped-down
version of Qt for embedded devices such as personal digital
assistants (PDAs)…”