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Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are more freedom-promising and why (in short: Maemo/Moblin merged as Meego and Android/Linux). I only disagree [...]

Tags: android, cloud, freedom, gnu, iphone, market, mobile, mobile cloud

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter of browsing a repository and click on a button. It’s such a good idea that [...]

Tags: android, cloud, cydia, freedom, google, iphone, jailbreak, market, Nokia, openmoko, ovi, rim, store, tivoization

Why wait until summer to code and earn $3,000? Funambol has just announced the availability of a $3,000 bounty to develop a plugin to allow Funambol to run on Qtopia devices. Trolltech, the makers of Qtopia, was just acquired this week by Nokia and as a result, Qtopia will become more commonly used.
Trolltech and [...]

Tags: android, codesniper, funambol, mobile, Nokia, trolltech

Negli ultimi giorni ho assistito ad alcuni episodi deprimenti. Google ha escluso agli italiani la possibilità  di partecipare al concorso per lo sviluppo di applicazioni per Android, e questo di per sè non è piacevole. Ancora di più sono stati alcuni commenti che ho letto da parte di persone molto intelligenti e capaci [...]

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