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Sprint joins Team Tizen for reasons no one understands

Before we get to today’s news, you need some backstory: Nokia started work on a Linux based mobile operating system called Maemo back in 2005. It got better over time, just have a look at the Nokia N9 to get an idea of what we’re talking about. Now Maemo wasn’t the only Linux mobile OS on the market trying to become successful, there was Intel’s Moblin platform, which the chip company was attempting to get laptop makers to use. Nokia teamed up with Intel, merged Moblin and Maemo, and called … Read more

dan 3 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Mozilla: Boot to Gecko will have an early 2013 commercial release

Anyone remember Palm and webOS? The fundamentals of that operating system were way ahead of their time. What Palm did was essentially create a Linux based operating system, make all the APIs that you’d need for calling, texting, etc., and then they decided to build the webOS user interface in HTML and JavaScript. That’s right, webOS was nothing more than a glorified web page. Mozilla wants to do the same thing with Boot to Gecko, Gecko being what they call their rendering engine. Whereas Palm wanted to keep webOS to … Read more

mozilla 1 month ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Despite killing Maemo, Nokia contributed more work to the Linux kernel in 2011 than Google

Google’s mobile operating system, Android, is based on Linux. Nokia on the other hand ships a majority of their smartphones based on the Symbian operating system. Back in February of last year, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told the world that the Finnish handset vendor would get rid of Symbian, release just one Linux based (Maemo/MeeGo) smartphone, and that the future was going to be all about Windows Phone. Right on schedule, Nokia shipped their first Windows Phone on November 15th, roughly five months ago. Why do I bother bringing any … Read more

bilde 2 months ago

Stefan Constantinescu