Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.
There’s no doubt that it’s getting easier to access the Web on a mobile device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple’s Web browser, Safari, millions of people feel as though they finally have the Internet in their pocket. But there’s still a lot of work that [...]
There has been a whole lot of buzz about Funambol since the WWDC keynote, mostly touting the open-source offering as a wonderful free alternative to MobileMe. MobileMe, in case you’ve just awoken from a coma, is Apple’s sync everything everywhere solution.
Funambol offers open-source mobile syncing software for email, contacts and calendars. It works with Exchange, Domino, [...]
Aza Raskin, one of the human interface experts hired last year by Mozilla, has released a five minutes video of a very early prototype of what Firefox Mobile’s interface may look like.
As you can see in the video below, the design aims to overcome two of the most common limitations in mobile devices: a small [...]
Most of the time, Linux is run from either an installation on a hard drive or a live CD/DVD distribution. The first is fast, but not very portable; the second can be run anywhere you have a computer and a CD drive with boot access, but typically isn’t very fast. Over the last few years, [...]
If you are an owner of an iPhone and would like to sync it wirelessly with Linux, here comes a nice piece of howto for you.
Apple may open up its iPhone and iPod touch devices to third-party apps next month, but the chances that Linux users will get invited to the party are slim at [...]
Follow the instructions on this page, and you’ve got Ubuntu Mobile running on your desktop. This is mostly for the purpose of technology preview as well as for the developers.
Компания Canonical анонсировала мобильную версию операционной системы Ubuntu. Ubuntu - это популярный дистрибутив GNU/Linux для настольных компьютеров. Новая платформа Ubuntu Mobile была разработана специально для мобильных интернет-устройств (MID), она является результатом сотрудничества Canonical и Intel при поддержке свободного сообщества. Релиз Ubuntu Mobile запланирован на конец апреля этого года. Сейчас платформа доступна разработчикам оборудования в виде [...]
With Opera’s imminent release of Opera Mobile 9.5 for the Windows Mobile platform, the best in its’ class, Mozilla is showing off some new screenshots of Mobile Firefox. As this segment is getting hotly contested with newcomers such as Skyfire, Netfront with its’ 3.5 tech review, Iris browser and mobile [...]
As part of it mobile strategy, Mozilla has unveiled the first designs of what may become in time, Mobile Firefox’s user interface. The design considers two scenarios: touch screen enabled devices like most PDAs and smart phones and those were screen navigation is performed with a keyboard or similar, like most cell phones.
Perhaps the most [...]
I have been trying to find out for months how to use internet sharing via usb on a windows mobile 6 device under linux. I had managed in a prior post to get bluetooth PAND working and even to get bluetooth DUN and USB DUN working but had been unsuccessful with the USB internet sharing..until [...]
If you use Linux on your desktop, and you also happen to have a BlackBerry handheld device, you’re probably aware that Research in Motion, the company that develops the BlackBerry platform, offers nothing in the way of support for its devices on Linux — but the intrepid geeks in the free software world do. Thanks [...]
Users can now download the official installer for OS2008 for your Nokia N800 Internet tablet. You get:
The sluggish Opera browser has been swapped out for a speedy Mozilla based browser
If you’re on an N800, the processor speed has been bumped up to 400 Mhz
Built in Flash 9
FM Radio software
A Beautiful new UI
Improved RSS reader
and [...]
go-mobile Announces SugarCRM and KnowledgeTree Integration Product for Sugar Exchange
go-mobile, a provider of popular extensions for SugarCRM, has released ZuckerDocs version 2 which integrates the open source KnowledgeTree document management system into SugarCRM.
ZuckerDocs (”Zucker” is the german word for “Sugar”) is a Sugar module which extends Sugar suite with full Document Management and Knowlegde Base [...]
In case you are interested in how to run Opera Mini 4 on you Windows Mobile device as a default browser, head to my other blog post here …. cause I am loving it.
Аналитическая компания ABI Research опубликовала отчёт об исследовании рыночных перспектив мобильных операционных систем на основе Linux, и в частности мобильной платформы Android, представленной недавно компанией Google. Аналитики подтверждают, что фрагментация рынка мобильных Linux-платформ не даёт им возможности использовать свои конкурентные преимущества, так как наличие нескольких несовместимых платформ не удобно ни производителям ни операторам. Такая ситуация [...]
MPlayer is one of the most popular Linux/Unix media player … we all know that, don’t we. Now, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member amitv_17, the porting to Windows Mobile has started.
It’s available HERE, in the official XDA-Devs thread and is, of course, a free download. It seems to be compatible with most WM5 and [...]
Android is a newly released software stack for mobile devices from Google that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. It’s open source and based on the Linux kernel and on version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as [...]
This tutorial shows how to install x11vnc on your N800 which in return makes it possible to connect remotely to your N800 device using VNC.
I. Setting Up Nokia N800 for VNC Access Using `x11vnc`
1. Install x11vnc application on the Nokia N800. Either download the x11vnc deb package on the PC, transfer it to N800 and [...]
If you remember all the recent ballyhoo about Google entering the wireless handset market with a possible gPhone, and their announcement last week that they weren’t going to release the product but instead they’ve created the Open Handset Alliance that ties numerous mobile device vendors to a common API (Applications Programming Interface). As expected Google [...]
As you all probably know by now, Gmail now supports IMAP access for all e-mail accounts for free. IMAP is great because it allows you to sync your emails between multiple computers, devices or e-mail clients.
There are two ways you can configure your KMail e-mail client for accessing Gmail account through IMAP - the IMAP [...]
Few days ago Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice-president of engineering announced that Mozilla is serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices and has announced that Mobile Firefox is coming in a big way.
When you think of a mobile browser, you may first think about Opera and WebKit, as personally but Mozilla wants [...]
With Splashtop you can read e-mail, chat with friends, or surf the Web seconds after pushing the power button!
Asus is the first to introduced the first motherboard, P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n, with support for Splashtop, they call Express Gate, a technology that allows a computer to quickly boot an embedded Linux-based operating system with some frequently used [...]
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