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Nokia to bridge Maemo, Symbian with Qt
Nokia's Maemo mobile Linux operating system will use Qt rather than GTK+ for its application development framework. Read more »
Mobile Linux standards rocked by merger
The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. Read more »
Xandros joins Viyya Tech in mobile device push
Xandros, which makes the Windows-like Linux distribution used in ASUS's popular Eee PC sub-laptop, has signed a deal with information-management software maker Viyya Technologies to jointly target portable devices such as laptops and mobile Internet devices. Read more »
Update released for Gnome Linux desktop
The Gnome project has released the first test version of the Gnome 2.22 desktop this week, with changes including a new Web-browser engine, updates for virtual network computer and accessibility, and a new file system. Read more »
What does Nokia's Trolltech buy mean for Symbian?
Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary. Read more »
Nokia to acquire Linux firm Trolltech
Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications including Google Earth and Skype. Read more »
KDE4 offers new glitzy look
KDE released a significantly revamped version of its Linux graphical interfaces software on Friday. Read more »
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
As the Open Handset Alliance released the preliminary SDK for the mobile Linux platform, Google revealed that members have signed a 'non-fragmentation agreement' Read more »
Trolltech axes the Greenphone
The mobile Linux development company Trolltech has announced that it has sold out of its Greenphone reference handsets and that it will not re-order further units Read more »
OpenMoko and Trolltech team up on mobile Linux
Trolltech's Qtopia application-development platform has been successfully ported onto the OpenMoko Neo1973 handset Read more »
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Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »
Nokia enters the mobile open source battle
Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms — Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP — are to be pooled into one open-sourced über-platform, came out of the blue. Read more »
Nokia's big plans on the Qt
With the acquisition of Trolltech, Nokia has made its largest bet yet on changing the course of the industry. Read more »
How to make money from Open source
Ever pondered how companies make money from free and open source development projects? Could you open source your code and still make a profit? Con Zymaris puts forward the case. Read more »
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The reality of mobile Linux: Part one
At the Mobile World Congress, we look at how mobile Linux is already making an impact on handsets, with platforms and toolkits shown off by Trolltech, Access and Azingo Read more »
Supermarket Sweep -- Club Builder
Microsoft wants Yahoo, Nokia buys Trolltech -- it's a tech supermarket sweep! This week on Club Builder we also look at IE8's new standards mode and have some fun with Linus Torvalds. Read more »
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Nokia starts trolling
-- This week Builder AU is on the road at linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne -- but before we get into all that is happening here, there is the small matter of Trolltech. Read more »
Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper
-- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »
Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group
-- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »
Who really owns your open source code?
-- If you are a developer committed to open source and you wish for your contributions to always remain open, do not reassign copyright to an external party Read more »
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LCA Open Day
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »
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