Stefan was on hand from 4tiitoo at Computex to give us a run down of whats happening with the WeTab, which recently got upgraded to version 2.1.2. Lets start with dispelling some rumours, Some sites are claiming that the WeTab 2 was on show but this is not the case, just reference hardware showing that the WeTab interface can run on other OakTrail hardware. [...]

  The initial MeeGo device to cause a buzz at Computex was the Asus Eee PC X101. Billed as being ultra thin and portable I can only say that it lives up to those claims. The Selling reference point is $199 + Local taxes (where applicable). Brian from Asus talks us through the fact that it is 17.6mm, weighing 950g and runs Asus AppStore which [...]

  Can Audio gear just not keep away from MeeGo ? We had IndaMixx running MeeGo at the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco and now Cyber Step have the KDJ-One KDJ-ONE packs everything you need to produce music into a portable CD case sized 126x150x27mm unit, making it the world’s first fully mobile DAW. Features include a powerful synthesizer, drum machine, and support for ACID [...]

  On the way to Computex and it seems like the Asus Eee pc x101 has been announced which is a new MeeGo Netbook according to a tweet by JKKMobile Hopefully I will be there soon, to take up the story UPDATE: According to engadget ASUS is starting off its bevy of Computex announcements with the new Eee PC X101, a netbook that gives the [...]

  Presented at the MeeGo Conference was the latest version of IndaMixx 2 running on a MeeGo tablet. The actual hardware is a Atom Based Tablet with 2Gb Memory. Keyboard patched into Ivory and Yoshini. Standard studio effects can used such as velocity, controller, system effects, reverb etc. Energy XT was also demoed which is a Sequencer. Tony did seem to be enjoying himself, and [...]

  At the recent MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco, ICS took us through their demonstration of the News Reader Application. QML Demo, Idea that you can watch Video off your TV and the idea is that you can flip through the articles is easy. QML works well and as usual with everyone that has been using it, the development only took 3 weeks. I [...]

  As promised to the community the Nokia N900 San francisco build has been released. As stated previously with relation to this build it is NOT designed to be a everyday phone, as the name suggests it is a Developer Edition and to be used primarily for that purpose. Here is a Video of the User Interface in action at the San Francisco conference, also [...]

  At the MeeGo conference 4tiitoo AG announced their planned upgrade of WeTab OS to MeeGo v1.2. The rollout plans to integrate the MeeGo v1.2 common code base on the WeTab. “The integration of MeeGo v1.2 constitutes another milestone in the development of the WeTab”, Stephan Odörfer, CTO of 4tiitoo AG, says. “With its open system architecture the WeTab offers not only an alternative to [...]

So as everyone has gathered the elusive Nokia N950 did not turn up this week at the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. But was it supposed to turn up in the first place ? There are sometimes rumours flying past by the second for this device and keeping track of them all is a full time job. For my part I do not tend to [...]

  What is Wine ? Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. At its heart, Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programing Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the Windows program and Linux. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer, when a Windows program tries to perform a function that Linux doesn’t normally [...]

  BasysKom showed off their much talked about new User Interface (UI) Plasma Active at MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011. The UI has been created in only in a matter of weeks and shows what we expect to see time and time again in how User Interfaces can be developed. Saying that the interface that BasysKom have / are developing are unique as items are [...]

  One of the talking points of the MeeGo Conference 2011 was MeeGo at Sea. Yes we have discussed MeeGo in a car where it will compete with other IVI solutions, but the sea is a fertile untapped playing ground. A Yacht is a complex vehicle / Hotel on water and as such screams out the need for an Interconnected IVI solution. At the moment [...]

  A well overdue meeting took place at MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. Intel & Nokia ? Elop ? No … me and BrenDan Le Foll (@madeouk). Brendan is responsible for the MeeGo TV 1.2 User Experience (UX) which is a modified build of XBMC. What we are going to see is a very similar build of the app running on a MeeGo NetBook. Here [...]

  Its good to see that Intel are showcasing the Beta MeeGo AppUp client at the MeeGo conference in San Francisco. The client is currently available for Windows and now the beta is available for MeeGo. The beta gives developers a chance to test the Interface with their own applications and provide feedback. AppUp is an Application store with about 3,500 applications (it is growing) [...]

  During the warm up sessions at the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco Intel continued its crusade to acquire more developers in the shape of the Intel AppLab. They realise that that for the perfect ecosystem (a relatively new word to many), they require all the different ingredients to be present. Developers learnt how to develop apps for Intel AppUp center focusing on MeeGo. There [...]