Daily Mobile Industry Snippets!
Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo team has just announced the mobile platform to be available for download, specifically for users of N900 and Atom notebooks. It is clear that this only for developers who want a super early look at the platform.
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/first-cut-of-meego-available-today-for-n900-and-atom-devices/
Daily Mobile Industry Snippets!
The world’s largest chip maker and the world’s largest mobile phone maker have merged operating systems to create a single platform for mobiles.
The world’s largest chip maker and world’s largest mobile phone maker have merged operating systems to create a single platform for mobiles. Nokia announced a partnership with Intel. Namely, the two companies are merging their odd, half-finished, Linux-based OSs into one little package called… MeeGo. Intel is mixing its Moblin with Nokia’s Maemo to create “a software platform that will support multiple hardware architecture across the broadest range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.”
Sources:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/meego-nokia-and-intel-merge-maemo-and-moblin/
Daily Mobile Industry Snippets!
Creating a cross-platform smartphone app isn’t easy. It takes lots of work to port a single game or other app to the hundreds of different cell phones and carriers in the world.
But London-based Ideaworks Labs says it has solved the problem with its Airplay software development kit. It launched its fourth version of the software in October, and it is adding a version for Mac-based developers. That should beef up the competition in the race to create mobile apps that run on all sorts of phones.
The basic pitch is that if you develop an app for the iPhone, you may reach an audience of 65 million or so at the most. If you develop the app with Airplay, you can get your app to half a billion phones. You write the code once for the ARM processor used in most phones. Then the code is natively translated — with a single click — to other platforms, including iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BREW and Maemo devices. And once the Apple iPad comes out, Ideaworks Labs expects to be able to support that platform too.
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Weekend Mobile Industry Snippets!
Firefox is making its official mobile debut on the Maemo OS. Available for download right now, version 1.0 will come with a pretty sweet feature named Weave Sync, which harmonizes your bookmarks, tabs, history and passwords across devices, making for a seamless transition between your desktop computer and your mobile one.
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/30/firefox-for-mobile-makes-maemo-its-first-home/
