Feb
15
2010
This is good news for mobile free software (or open source, as you wish to call it): Maemo and Moblin joined forces today. I had lots of expectations for Maemo, but so far Nokia hasn’t pushed it enough. This merge of the two project may give it a new life. Now the issue is [...]
Tags: intel, maemo, meego, mobile, moblin, motorola, Nokia
Apr
06
2009
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
Mar
17
2009
Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the internet for 90% of users and because it’s expanding its reach to the mobile network. [...]
Tags: apple, funambol, google, microsoft, Nokia, ovi, privacy, strategy, sync
Jan
14
2009
The good news today is that Nokia relicensed the Qt (pr: cute) libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License, demonstrating that the mobile ecosystem is where things happen. The GNU Lesser GPL is a license that allows non-free and free software to co-exist. Yes, with the LGPL the FSF admits that non-free software exists. [...]
Tags: business, freedom, fsf, gpl, gtk+, lgpl, mobile, Nokia, qt, qtopia, strategy
Jan
06
2009
And Nokia didn’t know about it. The Linux-based Maemo platform had all the potential to radically change the cell phone landscape long before Apple came out with the iPhone. But Nokia preferred to be ultra-conservative and marketed the Internet Tablet devices such as the Nokia N810 as a toy for geeks.
Maybe this strategy has [...]
Tags: community, free software, freedom, internet tablet, maemo, mobile, n810, Nokia, qtopia
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.
This post [...]
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