Posts Tagged ‘maemo’

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?

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

Maemo Summit – Day Three Highlights

Day Three and the whole Maemo Summit is now in the past. Great presentations, Oprah moments, community bonding and good times were on the menu. Coming year before the next Maemo Summit will be by far the most exciting and interesting for Maemo community and mobile computer landscape in general. While...

October 11th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Summit – Day Two Highlights

The second day of the Maemo Summit concentrates on community, development frameworks and applications. Presentations have lots of interesting details and hopefully the videos and slides will be available soon online for those interested in the deep content of Maemo development. Here’s the highlights...

October 10th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Summit – Day One Highlights

Maemo Summit – gathering of Nokia’s Maemo team and the Maemo community started today. Day One was the “Nokia day”, agenda filled mostly by Nokia employees giving presentations in various keynotes and panels. Highlight 1: Nokia loans N900 device for 6 months use to all summit...

October 9th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Developer Interview – Maemo Mapper

MaemoNews is continuing our series of Maemo developer interviews, this time in the exciting area of mobile mapping software. Our community developer for the interview is John Costigan, the developer of the great Maemo Mapper software. Currently Maemo Mapper is the third most downloaded software in the...

October 8th, 2009 | Community, News | Read More

Maemo Developer Interview – OM Weather

Maemo and open-source community in general is built on the strengths of it’s developers. Community thrives or dies based on the altruist sharing among it’s members. For Maemo devices, Nokia has understood this fully and embraces the community by being much more open and transparent in Maemo...

October 2nd, 2009 | Community, News | Read More

N900 Preview from My-Symbian.com

Before we have received our pre-ordered Nokia N900 devices and published our full review I have to point you towards super excellent preview done by Michal Jerz at My-Symbian.com site. He really does a very detailed look at every area of the device inc. HW+SW with lots of good comparison to other Nokia...

September 29th, 2009 | News | Read More

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

Maemo and N900 video collection

Eyes tired of reading blog entries about Maemo and Nokia N900? Twitter feed going past way too quickly to check all the cool information out there? No problem: sit back, relax and watch these videos for latest on the Maemo OS, Nokia N900 and the community. First, we have an interesting and looong Q&A...

September 17th, 2009 | News | Read More