In a blog post on May 16, Miguel de Icaza announced Xamarin, a new Mono-based product company.

After six years of Qt 4, Nokia wants to modernize its toolkit for 2012 with the Qt 5 release.

The Budapest Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-O) kicked off on Monday, May 9, at the Corinthia Hotel. "Accessibility is one of our core values as a project," Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said in his keynote address, as he acknowledged the Unity documentation team contributions to the 11.04 release. After briefly looking back at the "Natty Narwhal" Ubuntu release, Shuttleworth set his sights on the upcoming release, saying, "Our goal, our mission is 200-million Ubuntu users in four years."

Nokia announces the release and immediate availability Qt SDK 1.1 as its next step in tools support for Qt based development.

Nokia announces collaboration plans to outsource its Symbian software activities and transfer 3,000 employees to Accenture.

The first Qt Contributors’ Summit is scheduled to be held at the ParkInn Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany on June 16-18, 2011.

"Android is poised to take over as the leading smartphone operating system in 2011 after racing into the number 2 position in 2010," said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team.