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Samsung to merge Bada with Tizen, because the industry needs yet another mobile OS

Once upon a time, on a cold winter day in Finland, a couple of Nokia engineers began work on a project called Maemo. The goal was to create a brand new mobile operating system based on Linux that had no relationship to Symbian, which at the time was the world’s most popular smartphone platform. The first Maemo device, the Nokia 770, hit the market in late 2005. Had it come out in 2012 the technology press would have called it Nokia’s answer to the Apple iPad, but back then it Read more

Stefan Constantinescu

Mozilla’s new mobile OS is farther along than we thought, set to be shown off in Q1 2012

Back in July we brought you news of Mozilla’s new smartphone operating system called “Boot to Gecko”, known as B2G for short. It’s essentially Android under the hood, but with a user interface that’s built using web technologies, so it “borrows” the principles behind Palm’s failed webOS. Now when we wrote up that article it was a bit tongue in cheek since we thought it would never get off the ground, but low and behold it’s actually progressing faster than any of us could have anticipated. There’s already a mockup Read more

Stefan Constantinescu