Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo
Nokia’s Maemo operating system, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is being merged with the Intel-sponsored Moblin distribution to form MeeGo, under the direction of the Linux Foundation: MeeGo...
View ArticleNokia plus Windows Phone 7 – would that be a smart move?
The rumour is that Nokia’s CEO, ex-Microsoft Stephen Elop, is planning a major strategy announcement on Friday February 11. The obvious move would be to embrace a new Smartphone platform, since neither...
View ArticleMeeGo, Qt, and the new Nokia: developers express their doubts
What are the implications of the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft for MeeGo, the device-oriented Linux project sponsored by Intel and Nokia? What about Qt, the application framework that...
View ArticleQt will not be ported to Windows Phone 7 says Nokia
Director of the Qt Ecosystem Daniel Kihlberg has posted officially on the future of Qt, Nokia’s cross-platform application framework. However you spin it, Nokia’s change of direction, relegating...
View ArticleAndroid only 23% open says report; Linux, Eclipse win praise
Vision Mobile has published a report on what it calls the Open Governance Index. The theory is that if you want to measure the extent to which an open source project is really open, you should look at...
View ArticleGoogle Native Client: browser apps unleashed, or misconceived and likely to...
Last week Google integrated Native Client into the beta of Chrome 14. Native client lets you compile C/C++ code to run in the browser. It depends on a new plug-in API called Pepper. These are open...
View ArticleWill Nokia’s Qt come to Windows Phone?
When Nokia acquired Trolltech back in 2008, it made perfect sense as a way of supporting development on Symbian, its smartphone operating system, and nudging the Qt project, which provides a...
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