Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

Jobcuts at HP’s WebOS Division

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

As WebOS is transitioning into an open source operating system, HP has announced it will be letting go of another 270 employees that worked on the operating system. HP will try to place those employees at other parts of the company.

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Wayfinder Goes Open Source

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Developers who have always wanted to develop navigation apps will probably be happy to hear that Vodafone is will be giving away the sourcecode to the Wayfinder LBS service for free.

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Today, Symbian Goes Open Source (For Real)

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Months ago, Nokia formed the Symbian Foundation to house the Symbian OS and make it an Open Source OS. Today, four months earlier than expected, the sourcecode has been put online.

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Qualcomm’s Brew Free for All

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

The past year, many smartphone platforms have gone open source, meaning that smartphones have become a lot cheaper to manufacture. To avoid losing marketshare to smartphone platforms, Qualcomm has decided to open up Brew and make it a free platform for dumbphones.

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adMob Launches on WebOS

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | 1 Comment »

adMob has been very successful on platforms like the iPhone, but Palm’s WebOS was still uncovered by the company. To support developers, the company released an open source SDK for ad invocation.

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Palm to Change Apps Policy

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Coming December, we will see a very interesting update on Palm's WebOS. The company will be allowing apps to be installed from third party channels and will drop the $99 fee for open source apps.

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Id Software Makes Wolfenstein 3D Open Source for iPhone

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Id’s John Carmack has ported the good old, original, Wolfenstein to the iPhone platform. At the same time, the developer has started providing the source code of the game for free on it’s website.

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Symbian Expects Significant Growth next Quarter

March 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian Foundation expects that it's market share will get a huge boost next quarter as the operating system is finally going open source. It expects to be embedded in more low end handsets.

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mGBL Goes Open Source

December 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The mGBL platform is targeted at creating mobile games with a high educational value. Though the platform has 11 partners from all over the globe and EU funding, it has turned Open Source in the hope to evolve into the lives of consumers world-wide.

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Symbian Explains UIQ, MOAPS & S60 Future

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

After the news that UIQ was abandoned by SonyEricsson and Motorola, a lot of developers feared that a beautiful platform was going to waste. Well, no need to worry just yet…