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Maemo 6 New Security Model

Maemo 6 New Security Model
One of the surprises from Maemo Summit 2009 was Nokia’s announcement of new closed down mode for Maemo 6 to support mainstream commercial content protection requirements from content owners. Speculation of how secure this can be, why Nokia is in the first place doing this, what are the implementation...
October 13th, 2009 | News, Software | Read More

What’s Coming With Maemo 6 in 2010?

What’s Coming With Maemo 6 in 2010?
We had very informative Maemo Summit 2009 late last week at Amsterdam, Netherlands. Lots of news came out and one very interesting topic was where Maemo OS is heading next. We have heard already some key changes that will come like QT driven UI but what are all the new or changed Maemo 6 news: QT driven...
October 12th, 2009 | News, Software | Read More

Nokia Maemo and Intel Moblin – Friends? Enemies? To be Joined?

Nokia Maemo and Intel Moblin – Friends? Enemies? To be Joined?
Intel has been working on Moblin OS for a few years now. Moblin.org site was launched mid 2007 but likely work was started at least in 2006. This is Intel’s Linux based operating system for MIDs (Mobile Internet Device), netbooks, set top boxes and other small computer driven devices. Intel pushed...
September 25th, 2009 | News, Software | Read More

Apple iPhone Top 5 applications vs. Nokia N900

Apple iPhone Top 5 applications vs. Nokia N900
One of the key success factors for Apple iPhone has been the unprecedented volume of it’s application landscape. Developers have wholeheartedly embraced the iPhone OS by creating thousands of free and paid applications. As usually goes along with huge quantities, quality is often lacking and iTunes...
September 9th, 2009 | Software | Read More

Maemo OS vs. Google Android OS

Maemo OS vs. Google Android OS
This time I will do a comparison of Maemo operating system with Android operating system. Maemo in the comparison is its latest version, Maemo 5. We are still missing some details of it and it will launch with a device, N900, next month so some last minute tweaking must be ongoing at Nokia for that release....
September 8th, 2009 | Software | Read More

Maemo OS 5 – What’s New

Maemo OS 5 – What’s New
Maemo OS 5 is released along N900 device for the first time for normal earthlings. It brings a lot of new things due to new hardware, new design of UI, improved finger usability and things like introduction of voice call + SMS capability. See below for a list of new software features of this release. New...
September 2nd, 2009 | Software | Read More