Fring brings VoIP to iPhone

Yesterday a Fring for iPhone was pre-released. It brought VoIP over WiFi and IM functionality to stylish and power Apple’s smartphone. Now all iPhone owners will be able to use Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM ob their devices. I use Fring on my Nokia E65 a few months. It’s really nice and useful. Sure, there is a native Gizmo application for […]

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New mozilla-based for N810 browser much faster then MicroB

Good news. The Firefox 3 is gonna be released soon. There is a big list of improvement such reducing of memory usage, increasing of performance etc. In parallel developers are working with mobile version of web browser based on Firefox 3 beta 4 source code. It’s named Fennec. According to tests it 5.9x faster than MicroB which is based on Firefox Alpha 1 (see chart). […]

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Android run on N810

Realise of Google’s mobile platform Android is one of the most coming events this year. So, Maemo geeks couldn’t ignore it. Result of their hacks is possibility to run Android on N810 (see the picture above). If you’re interested to have it on your tablet have a look that page from eLinux project wiki. At present time the eLinux.org is down. I suspect that too […]

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Nokia770 in the latest blockbusters

Nokia77 is used in Live Free or Die Hard by hackers. Good to see something different then MacBook or Sony Vaio. P. S. Engadget announced a new action – send a screen grabs of real-world gadgets you’ve seen in today’s movies and TV to screengrabs at engadget dt com. [via Engadget]

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60 Mobile computing devices on one page

It’s better to see once then hear seven times. 60 ultra mobile devices on one page. Check it. All pictures are clickable!

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VMWare and kernel 2.6.24.X

Last week I upgrade my Fedora Core 8 to the latest stable kernel 2.6.24.3-12. As result the compilation of VMWare module vmmon gave that error: /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’ include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:172: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:176: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving […]

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Eclipse plugins for Maemo Development

Maemo Team recently released a set of plug-ins for Maemo Eclipse integration. It allows developers to use Eclipse IDE to develop and test Maemo applications. Actually, the set contains following parts: maemo PC Connectivity, maemo ESBox plugin for Eclipse IDE and maemo Pluthon plugin for Eclipse IDE. Maemo PC connectivity makes connection between developer PC and Internet Tablet. Maemo ESBox plugin for Eclipse IDE integrates […]

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Google Gears on Nokia Internet Tablets

Google Gears was ported to Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablet platform Maemo. This port allows you to install the Gears extension to devices like Nokia’s N800 and N810: The code is in a SVN repository with vendor branches. The changes should be relatively easy to spot (svn diff). The changes are not well- engineered, rather they just indicate the difference between gecko 1.8 and 1.9. This […]

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