Archive for the tag 'Nokia'

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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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.
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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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Dec 11 2007

Nokia contro il W3C, scontro sui brevetti software

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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 [...]

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