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Open source has not reached apex
Insight Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos says there's still "more to develop and more territory to conquer", and predicts Microsoft will "become one of the biggest friends of open source".
Tags: Open source, Business applications
Apps to flourish on mobile, games
News Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, Mobile platforms, Nokia Corp., Ovum, Phone, Operating System, App, mobile, Business applications
Open source, features to drive smartphone market
News Symbian remains dominant mobile OS but market share will dip, with emergence of competing open source platforms Android and Maemo, predicts In-Stat.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Applications and tools, Nokia Corp., Open Source, Symbian Inc., Phone, Operating System, mobile, handset, Smart Phone
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port
News Nokia has released a port of its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5, so developers writing applications for the Linux OS can move them to multiple platforms.
Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Mobile applications, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Operating System, Trolltech, mobile, Mobile applications, Qt
Nokia to bridge Maemo, Symbian with Qt
News Use of Qt is expected to make it easier for developers to write apps both for the Maemo mobile Linux OS and for Symbian, Nokia's smartphone platform.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Linux, Smart phones, Symbian, KDE, Smart Phone, GNOME, desktop environment, Symbian Inc., Finnish company
Symbian to set up app developer program
News Horizon program will help selected developers write apps for the Symbian platform and distribute them in app stores compatible with Symbian-based handsets.
Tags: Symbian, Mobile applications, Mobile, Smart Phone, Developer, operating system, Symbian Inc., marketing, Nokia Corp., Mobile applications
Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Insight newsmaker Benoit Schillings, head of technology for Qt Software, talks about Nokia, Mozilla and going deeper than Java.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Protocols and platforms, Mobile, C, Tool, Developer, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., Environment
KDE starts testing version 4.1
News The new release's aim is to make KDE 4.1 a full replacement for KDE 3--something the project admitted is not yet the case with version 4.0.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, KDE, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, performance, software, Linux, desktop
Nokia to buy major Linux company
News The Finnish handset manufacturer is buying Trolltech, which specializes in graphical user interfaces for Linux and other platforms.
Tags: Acquisitions, Cellular phones
Symbian confident of Nokia's support
News Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Symbian claim their relationships with Nokia remain unchanged, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary.
Tags: Symbian
KDE 4.1 released
News The latest version is intended to answer some of the most serious criticisms of the KDE 4.0 graphical user environment.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Open source, Linux, UNIX, KDE, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, performance, desktop, application development
Barrier lowered between Linux interfaces
News A company has eliminated a legal barrier between competing graphical user interfaces that have divided Linux users.
Short Take: Compound semiconductor sector set to grow here
News Compound semiconductors currently make up less than a tenth of the semiconductor industry here, but they are catching up.
Rift persists between Linux interface camps
News The arrival today of major corporate backing to boost the Gnome desktop user interface for Linux won't do much to unify support for a competing effort called KDE, several key executives said.
Gnome Linux desktop updated
News One of the two main desktop environments for Linux has been upgraded to improve its Web-browsing system.
Tags: Linux
