Tag archive: Maemo

Mozilla put up release candidate versions of its newly updated Firefox 4 web browser for Android and Maemo operating systems just last week. In a quick turnaround, the full versions of both are now widely available, bringing the popular browser's look and user-friendly functionality to the smallest set of screens. The mobile version of Mozilla's browser is designed to play nice with its bigger siblings, with users able to sync… Read More

This is a good week for Mozilla. Firefox 4 was released less than 24 hours ago and it has already been embraced by 1.95 percent of the global browser market, web analytics firm StatCounter reveals. For comparison, Microsoft's competing Internet Explorer 9, which was released last week, had only taken a 0.87 percent share of the market as of yesterday. In related news, Mozilla also made the release candidate versions of Firefox 4′s… Read More

WordPress wants to make it easier for smartphone users to blog remotely. The popular blogging platform has been putting time and energy into making mobile applications to do just that. WordPress recently launched mobile apps for both Android and Blackberry users and have just announced that an open source WordPress app for Nokia phones is here. As mentioned in their blog post announcing the public beta, “We are very excited to share with… Read More

Firefox 4 beta for mobile phones includes many of the features seen on the desktop version including Firefox Sync, Add-ons and the Awesome Bar. Mozilla was heavily focused on making Firefox beta zippy on your phone. As Stuart Parmenter, mobile team tech lead, notes in their blog post announcement, “A major focus of this release is to increase performance and responsiveness. Two of the big architecture changes are Electrolysis and Layers.… Read More

Back in February, technology giants Intel and Nokia announced they were combining their respective Maemo and Moblin Linux-based platform efforts into a new entity called MeeGo. MeeGo would be running Intel's Moblin under-the-hood components, but relying on Nokia's Maemo user interface framework and Qt development environment for interface and presentation. And now, the effort is bearing its first fruit: MeeGo has opened its source… Read More

In what might best be characterized as an unlikely partnership, technology giants Intel and Nokia have announced they will be merging their respective Linux-based mobile device platforms Moblin and Maemo into a single unified platform dubbed MeeGo. According to the companies, MeeGo will offer a unified Linux-based platform with open-source tools that will support a very broad range of devices, ranging from smartphones, tablets, and netbooks… Read More

Finland's Nokia is still the largest mobile handset manufacturer in the world, but its influence in the high-end (and high-profit) smartphone market is increasingly falling short of competitors like RIM and Apple, in part because Nokia can't seem to capitalize on features and capabilities consumers want in a smartphone. But Nokia is determined to forge ahead in the smartphone marketplace—and the company is placing its best on… Read More