Archive for September, 2007

Ovi: The Door To Nokia Internet Services

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 ...

LiMo: A Big Step Forward For Mobile Linux

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 ...

Microsoft and Novell Open Linux-Windows Interoperability Lab

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 ...

Solar Powered Plane Zephyr Breaks The Record

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 ...

Technorati Launches Streaming Updates Service

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 ...

IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community

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 ...

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