Linux Foundation chief dubs MeeGo ‘unstoppable force’

Rik Myslewski, The Register, 5/23/2011 Nokialess mobile Linux rages on MeeGo, the Linux-based open source operating system born from the February 2010 shotgun marriage of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin and left at the altar when Nokia hooked up with Windows Phone 7, is an “unstoppable force” that speeds device-developers’ time-to-market, and it stands for [...]

Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) coming to Android

Mobiputing.com, 4/16/2011 The Silverlight platform is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, allowing developer to write rich media applications for the web or for computers. And Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight designed to run Silverlight apps on Linux. Now the developers of Moonlight are working to port the project to Android. That means [...]

Android violates Linux license, experts claim

Jon Brodkin, Network World, 3/17/2011 Google is already under fire from Oracle, which has gone to court claiming Android violates Java patents Google’s Android mobile operating system’s usage of the Linux kernel may violate open source licensing with a misappropriation of Linux code that could bring about the “collapse of the Android ecosystem,” some intellectual [...]

Nokia jumps from one burning platform to another with Windows Phone 7

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux Today, 2/11/2011 Well, I guess you can take the Microsoft executive out of Microsoft but you can’t take the Microsoft out of the executive. In what will prove Nokia’s final strategic blunder, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft senior executive, announced, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer grinning over his shoulder, [...]

NFC Gets More Flexible with “Open NFC” for Android

Sarah Perez, ReadWriteMobile, 2/8/2011 Semiconductor solutions provider Inside Secure has released an open source NFC protocol stack for Android 2.3, code-named “Gingerbread,” which it will provide to chip vendors, smartphone manufacturers, wireless carriers and software developers for free. The stack, called Open NFC, is the first hardware-independent implementation of NFC (near field communication) for Google’s [...]

Android topples Symbian as world’s No. 1 mobile OS

Brad Reed, Network World, 1/31/2011 For the first time in its short history, Google Android is now the No.1 mobile operating system in the world, according to research firm Canalys. A new report from Canalys shows that 32.9 million Android-based phones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter, eclipsing the 31 million Symbian-based phones that shipped [...]

Print Documents and Emails from Your Phone With Google Cloud Print

John Paul Titlow, ReadWriteBiz, 1/25/2011 Google officially announced the roll-out of Cloud Print today, which will enable wireless printing of documents and emails from mobile devices. As we reported in November, the impending arrival of Cloud Print was revealed somewhat by accident when hints of an upcoming cloud-printing feature showed up in the Google Docs [...]

Ubuntu – yes, Ubuntu – poised for mobile melee

Matt Asay, The Register, 1/18/2011 The enterprise world may increasingly be infatuated with Red Hat, but the mobile and desktop worlds are very much in play, with Canonical’s Ubuntu gaining ground in areas most Western observers will not have noticed. In short, there’s never been a more exciting, disruptive time to own an operating system. [...]

Mobile developers boost Linux kernel team

Joab Jackson, ComputerWorld, 11/30/2010 An increasing number of contributions to the open-source Linux kernel are coming from mobile and embedded equipment vendors, according to an annual report about to be released by the Linux Foundation. “This rise in development of Linux sponsored by embedded/mobile companies and their suppliers reflects the increasing importance of Linux in [...]

MeeGo

Ryan Paul, ArsTechnica, 11/30/2010 MeeGo is a Linux-based mobile operating system that is intended to support a variety of device form factors and multiple processor architectures. The MeeGo project was founded in 2010 by Intel and Nokia with the aim of unifying their respective mobile platforms to create a shared vendor-neutral stack. The effort has [...]

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