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Japan takes Android beyond phones; Nokia may respond with Maemo
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| Android may only be available in one handset, but it could soon appear in a
| wide range of devices from set-top boxes to netbooks, as the Japanese
| consumer electronics sector shows rising interest in Google's Linux-based
| system. However, it will not have the show to itself - not only is the LiMO
| Foundation holding on in the mobile space, but Intel is opening up its Moblin
| Linux platform and Nokia looks increasingly likely to put Linux further
| towards the center of its strategy, building on its Maemo-based offering.
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http://www.rethink-wireless.com/?article_id=1264
Related:
Mer: Remastering Maemo
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| Mer is an outgrowth of Nokia's Maemo environment, designed to flesh out the
| tablet-centric operating system into a full-fledged Linux distribution
| suitable for embedded and desktop systems of all description. The project's
| genesis was an effort to back port the upcoming Maemo 5.0 release to
| no-longer-supported Nokia N800 and N810 tablets, but it has subsequently
| evolved to run on BeagleBoards, embedded navigation devices like the Pocket
| LOOX, and standard x86 hardware.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/322693/
Nokia’s Maemo 5 open-source Linux OS promises faster, more powerful Internet
Tablets
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| Nokia’s little Linux-based, open-source darling has really blossomed into one
| fine looking platform. And, as the Maemo platform that powers Nokia Internet
| Tablets, like the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, again grows too big for its
| britches, Nokia will have to release newer versions of the Linux-based mobile
| platform.
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/09/17/nokias-maemo-5-open-source-linux-os-promises-faster-more-powerful-internet-tablets.html
Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
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| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
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| "We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an
| opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them," Symbian chief
| executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo. "And that could be on the
| application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system
| level."
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/16/symbian-extends-collaboration-offer-to-google-possibly-android.html
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
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| The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being
| formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led
| Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to. Enjoying 40 percent
| of the global handset market, and holding the largest stake in the
| market-leading Symbian platform, Nokia did not have to be quite as reactive
| as other manufacturers when it came to the open-source revolution. It was,
| however, inevitable that it would join the revolution and, after a suitable
| period of observer status, it chose the right time to do so.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=1888
Nokia embraces Ubuntu OS
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| Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices are set to get a port of the Linux operating
| system Ubuntu, following the release of the latest ‘Hardy Heron’ v8.04 of
| Ubuntu this week.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/linux/nokia-embraces-ubuntu-os--330238
Nokia does not get it
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| You better start playing by the rules because else the other companies might
| do it faster than Nokia and you will lose the opportunity. Oh: And just as a
| remind: when you go open source, you must play by the rules by honoring the
| license of the software.
|
| Really, it’s sad to listen to things like this from someone controlling the
| company who owns Trolltech I am sure that the vice-president of companies
| like Red Hat wouldn’t say nonsense like the above. But it’s no surprise
| coming from someone in a company that seems to be absolutely in favor of
| software patents in Europe according to FFII.
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http://edulix.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/nokia-does-not-get-it/
Ari Jaaksi of Nokia Wants to Educate the Linux Community
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| But perhaps the community has some education for Jaaksi and Nokia. Jaaksi
| hosted me at a Nokia dinner in 2000, he's a nice guy and has been interested
| in Linux for a long time. But Nokia's barking up the wrong tree this time,
| because Nokia can do everything it wants with DRM, IPR, and SIM locks without
| bothering the Linux developers about it - and both Nokia and the Linux
| developers will like it better that way. It's surprising that Nokia doesn't
| understand that at this late date.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198
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