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Folks of Canonical are looking forward to launch the first Ubuntu-powered smartphone in October this year. In the meantime, they’ll open up the platform for developers, allowing them to start readying their apps for the launch. Companies and individuals looks to get into the game as early as possible will even be able to test…
Aside from the Grand Memo phablet, ZTE will also unveil a Firefox OS-based smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The short announcement they’ve sent to the press mentions two hashtags to follow on Twitter – #ZTEGrandMemo and #ZTEMozilla. So what could the latter stand for? That’s right – it will be the Chinese company’s…
The first Ubuntu smartphone will be introduced in early 2014. However, you shouldn’t expect it to have all of the bells and whistles a modern mobile platform has. For one thing, it won’t have an app store, the feature that will have to wait for some other version. Speaking to Engadget, Canonical’s product manager Richard…
LG Electronics has joined Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture. As part of the deal, the Korean giant will contribute resources to work together with the resources from existing Linaro members. This shared team of over 100 engineers is directed by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which is…
Jolla, the small startup company composed of former Nokia engineers who worked on Maemo/MeeGo and who want to bring their own device to market, has just announced via Twitter that they’ve signed their first sales deal. Since Jolla doesn’t have an official website yet there’s sadly no press release we can link to, but somehow…
Anssi Vanjoki, or Dr. Evil as I like to call him because his square jaw and crisp suits make him look like a James Bond villan, was supposed to be the next CEO of Nokia. After he found out that Stephen Elop was going to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Vanjoki immediately resigned. For those who don’t…
Jussi Hurmola, the CEO of JollaMobile, the company that will continue the work that Nokia started with MeeGo, but then abandoned to go with Windows Phone, sat down with me for 20 minutes this morning to answer a few questions. If you’d like to listen to the interview, then I suggest you check out the…
February 11, 2011, was a brutal day for Nokia fans. That was the day the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, got up on stage and announced that Symbian was going to be thrown under the bus, that MeeGo was going to get shelved after the N9 shipped, and that the future of Nokia will be put…
Sotiris Makrygiannis, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “Director of Applications, MeeGo” at Nokia, has just tweeted that after 12 years with the company it’s time to call it quits. He sent several additional tweets saying how he remembers the hard work his team put into the N9, that February 11th, 2011, was a…
Can you name a single software project that was backed by a consortium of wireless operators that ended up being a successful product? No, you can’t. So why is it that the internet is going nuts over the news that Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Sprint are going to back Mozilla’s new mobile operating system, Firefox…