China Mobile is joining the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. The world’s largest telecom operator by both market value and number of subscribers became a Gold member, joining almost 100 companies on the list. The Foundation has three levels of membership – Platinum, Gold and Silver. There are…
Ubuntu 11.04 to be called Natty Narwhal, ARM support to be headline feature
Mark Shuttleworth, the father of Ubuntu, arguably one of the most successful Linux distributions out there, which is like saying it’s one of the smartest kids in remedial algebra, has revealed that the name of the upcoming 11.04 will be Natty Narwhal and that support for ARM’s low power and ubiquitous architecture will be one…
Registration open for the 2010 MeeGo Conference; November 15 – 17 in Dublin, Ireland
Come one, come all, registration for the 2010 MeeGo Conference, previously called the Maemo conference, is now open. There are only 600 spots, it’s free to join, and trust me when I tell you that you want to act on this right now since this event tends to fill up pretty quickly. Having gone to…
Two open source groups, LiMo and GNOME, get together to make a free-tarded baby
LiMo and GNOME, two open source groups that frankly have little to no mainstream acceptance, are getting together make open source more popular. A goal open source advocates have had since the beginning of time. The LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry…
Stanford University and Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto unveil FCam camera API
Stanford University and Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto have released an open-source digital photography platform called FCam (short for “Frankencamera”) for the Nokia N900. Developed as a part of Stanford’s Camera 2.0 project, it allows developers to create new capabilities for digital cameras to “overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create…
First Else Canceled, Will License OS
The First Else, which we had spent some time with at Mobile World Congress and the Consumer Electronics Show before that, has been officially canceled. While there was encouraging interest in the device by potential partners, management was not able to confirm a deal on terms acceptable to Emblaze to proceed to the production of…
Flash 10.1 for Mobile Released by Adobe to Partners
Adobe has announced that after a series of betas, the mobile version of their Flash player is production-ready and now available to partners. Android gets a lot of attention in the press release, confirming that the Flash player will be baked right into 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo), but BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone, Linux Mobile, MeeGo, and…
Digitimes: Nokia working on 7 or 9 inch MeeGo powered ARM based tablet for Q4 2010
Our favorite dodgy Taiwanese site is at it again, this time with news that Nokia will release a 7 or 9 inch tablet PC, running on ARM based silicon and using the MeeGo operating system, some time during the 4th quarter of this year. As much as I think the iPad is a bourgeois piece…
Is this the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9?
All of us expect to see the first MeeGo-powered smartphone being unveiled at some point this year. It seems we caught an early glimpse of what could come. Nokia N9 is the name of the game and from what we’ve seen (a video above), there’s something to look forward to. Design wise, it looks like…
ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI form Linaro to speed the rollout of Linux-based devices
A new company has been formed by the leading semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs) developers like ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments. It’s called Linaro and it’s made to speed the rollout of Linux-based devices. My first reaction was “Here’s another LiMo Foundation,” but I figured that’s not the case after reading the whole press…