Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Music, games and maps among the first Ovi services.
Nokia introduced Ovi, the company’s new Internet services brand name along with four new handsets. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services.
Ovi, meaning ‘door’ in Finnish, enables ...
Posted in Nokia, Internet, Mobiles, Gadgets | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
The duopoly of Windows Mobile and Symbian is to face its biggest challenge yet, with six big names in mobile telephony backing the development of a new Linux-based software platform for mobile phones.
The LiMo Foundation, originally founded by Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, Vodafone, and NTT DoCoMo in ...
Posted in Mobile Linux, Linux, Mobiles, Gadgets | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. today announced the opening of the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Mass.
Announced last fall as part of Microsoft and Novell’s groundbreaking collaboration agreement, the opening of the lab delivers on a promise the two companies made to work together to create ...
Posted in Software, Microsoft, Windows, Linux, Computers | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
A lightweight, built by British defence and security technology company QinetiQ has broken a world record for unmanned flight by staying aloft for 54 hours more than 50,000 feet above the New Mexico desert, announced the defense research company QinetiQ.
The Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...
Posted in Innovative, Sky, Research, Science | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Technorati has announced the launch of Technorati Topics, a live river of news stream that delivers a moving list of blog posts. It replaces the just relaunched Technorati home page.
Technorati’s Dorion Carroll said that the changes were due to user feedback on “how [Technorati] should organize the vastness of the ...
Posted in Internet, Blog | No Comments »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
The OpenOffice.org community announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software.
IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature ...
Posted in Software, Open Source, Linux | No Comments »
