Archive for the tag 'mobile'

Sep 11 2008

Cross-platform and interoperability is the key

Published by Stef under funambol

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
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Apr 01 2008

New UI from Funambol to iPhone

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface:
Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back in the mobile business, today released a high contrast user interface for the widely used [...]

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Feb 28 2008

Using Funambol on iPod Touch

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

Even if I don’t have an iPod (and I won’t buy one … I’ll tell you why one of these days) I’ve asked Funambol’s community to translate into English an article by Luis Medina written in Spanish. Paulo Sergio Lopes Fernandes and German Viscuso contributed the translation.
I liked the article not only because it’s [...]

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Feb 20 2008

Open position at Funambol: Symbian developer

Published by Stef under eng, funambol

I’ve just received from Funambol’s Engineering a request for a Symbian developer. announcement remembering that I became Funambol’s Community Manager after reading Roberto’s blog.
Here is the announce:
The development team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Symbian developer with excellent development and problem solving skills. You will join a dynamic team responsible for the [...]

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Feb 12 2008

Wengo stopped developing wengophone

Published by Stef under eng

Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.   They announced it in the developer’s mailing list.
Update: the development of OpenWengo software has been taken over by an experienced Wengo programmer.
I wonder why Google isn’t contributing its gtalk code to free software projects like Kopete, Gaim or Adium: they use an [...]

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Jan 31 2008

Make Funambol work on QTopia, get paid and get a free phone

Published by Stef under eng, funambol

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 [...]

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Jan 28 2008

Nokia goes for Trolltech

Published by Stef under eng

Now, this is surprising: Nokia acquired Trolltech, makers of toolkit QT, GTK’s competitor. What surprises me is that Nokia is using GTK on its tablet products (the 770, N800 and N810). So now Nokia has a stake in many platforms: its own flavour of Symbian for its cell phones, GTK/Gnome on the [...]

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Jan 22 2008

A fresh start with my new job at Funambol

Published by Stef under eng

I haven’t been updating the blog too much in the past week and the reason is that I have a new job as community manager at Funambol. The company develops the free/libre software Funambol application server (formerly known as Sync4j). The server allows mobile backup and PIM synchronization to contacts, calendars, tasks, notes and other [...]

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