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Palm WebOS SDK delayed... but leaked

eric — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:49:28 +0200

Palm Developer Network Blog has recently stated that the official Mojo SDK would be delayed to at least end of summer. Some effort would however be put on the early access program for those who really want to access it as soon as possible.

Mer : the best of Maemo + Debian/Ubuntu for mobiles

www.rzr.online.fr — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:44:25 +0200

Mer is not a Maemo fork but the result of joined efforts between Maemo, Ubuntu and of Debian (deblet), alpha version can be installed on the OpenMoko FreeRunner. Watch the video demo....

Migrating a Subversion database from version 1.4 to 1.5

eric — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:53:04 +0200

Nothing related specifically to mobile development today but a small script that is probably of interest for those that are using Subversion on a Debian Linux powered server and recently upgraded it to the Lenny release (which is obviously our case!)

n900 : Upcoming Nokia Tablet runs Maemo5 on OMAP3, Watch

www.rzr.online.fr — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:48:41 +0200

Before fall 2009, Nokia will release n900, 3rd generation of "Internet Tablet" (previous ones where 770 and n8x0) ... Major features are : 3G Support (WiFi / WiMax only for previous ons) , GPS, accelerometer

Android Native Development Kit approaching

eric — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:12:06 +0200

Native development on the Android platform shouldn't be considered as a hack in the near future. The forthcoming release of the Android NDK will open official door to native code for applications. Or more exactly, Java application will be able to access some native code and libraries.

N97 CPU and Memory details

eric — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:14:15 +0200

N97 is now available on Nokia Remote Device Access facility. I have taken the opportunity to use this to run a small "Phone Information" utility we use at NewLC (and that we will deliver to you soon) and here are a few figures that might be of interest.

OFono, an open source telephony solution

www.rzr.online.fr — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:10:00 +0200

OFono, new Open Source project for developing an open source
telephony solution has just be announced by Nokia and Intel.

Qt to replace S60 / Avkon in 2011

eric — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:57:22 +0200

There are some very interesting details in the Reviewing the Release Plan post from David Wood about the future of the Symbian platform. The biggest news for me is the switch to Qt in Symbian^4...

Symbian Foundation to launch its own app store ?

eric — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:35:57 +0200

According to eWeek, the Symbian Foundation is working on an "application inventory" where developers will not be charged a fee or percentage to distribute their applications via the foundation's channel.

Nokia N97 SDK Beta release

eric — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:52:33 +0200

Nokia has just released a beta version of the N97 SDK. This SDK is suitable for C/C++, Java, WebRuntime and Python development. It introduce a dedicated emulator with N97 look and feel as well as new APIs available on this particular device.