Sep
11
2008
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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Tags: business, funambol, interoperability, iphone, mobile, Nokia, open standard
Jan
31
2008
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
Jan
28
2008
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 [...]
Tags: business, floss, mobile, Nokia, trolltech
Dec
11
2007
Ho l’impressione che Stephan Wenger di Nokia voglia dare una spallata al WorldWideWeb Consortium (W3C) impegnato nella definizione del prossimo standard HTML5. Teniamo a mente che tra tutti gli enti di standardizzazione, W3C è l’unico a prevedere in una policy esplicita che eventuali brevetti negli standard devono essere rilasciati dai titolari con licenze [...]
Tags: html5, Multimedia, Nokia, Ogg, open standard, Theora, Video, Vorbis, W3C