Time again for another meet up. Its been a while since we sat down and discussed the world of Tech. So come along and have a natter about MeeGo, Tizen, Mer, Nemo and anything else tech related that takes your fancy. Chill in a relaxed environment and if you have anything that you want to show off then drag it along (tech!!!)   [...]

    BMW, Nissan and Toyota are among the companies keynoting at this first-time event SAN FRANCISCO, November 14, 2011 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its program for the first-ever Automotive Linux Summit taking place November 28, 2011 in Yokohama, Japan. The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the brightest minds from the automotive [...]

    Since being featured on MeeGoExperts and other tech sites (that Engadget fella comes to mind) OpenMobile has been shunned into the limelight with its Technology that allows any non-Android / non-iOS device to seamlessly run the approximate 300,000+ Android apps (and counting). Obviously we are looking forward to these apps running on MeeGo and also Tizen in the future. They have received huge [...]

    Since the Tizen Announcement there has been little (no) further news to how this is all going to fit together. Hopefully within the next 6 short weeks that will all change with the First Ever Tizen Summit being held in Beijing, China on the 8th – 9th December. The conference will be hosted at the Beijing Marriott Hotel City Wall and promsies to gather [...]

    Since the announcement of Tizen the most contentious part of it all has been the dropping of Qt from Tizen going froward. Well Nomovok have announced a Nomovok Tizen build that has Qt integrated straight off the bat !!!! Nomovok provides Tizen with integrated Qt, both for x86 and ARM architectures. Our proven expertise on native ARM build on the OBS based Tizen [...]

  We certainly live in challenging times. Maemo / Moblin / MeeGo and Now Tizen. Not everyone is happy with the direction that MeeGo is going in and as such don’t want to blindly follow our leaders. One Answer / Proposal is “Project Mer” which aims at being: an open, inclusive, meritocratically governed and openly developed distribution, providing a mobile-optimised base distribution for use by [...]

    Earlier this Month MeeGo was not even touched on at Intel IDF. Fast forward two weeks and last night we knew that MeeGo will now become Tizen which was announcement by the Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation. Today Scott Apeland (Director of Intel’s Developer Network) was not shy with the word Tizen. Tizen is an Open Sourced Project which is Standard spaced, Cross [...]

  Today both the Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation Announced a new Operating System – “Tizen”. This Operating System is a combination of Limo and MeeGo that will eventually replace MeeGo. The project will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and led by a technical steering team composed of Intel and Samsung. As I have mentioned previously news was on the horizon and this is [...]

  FRANKFURT, Germany – Nokia is pressing the accelerator on building mobile phone capabilities into cars with the release of the Nokia Car Mode app. Nokia Car Mode makes it easier for drivers and passengers to access maps, satellite navigation (provided by Nokia Drive), traffic updates, music and voice calls when they are in vehicles, so there’s no need for a separate music player or [...]

    The Servers of Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org and associated subdomains are currently down. On September the 8th a security breach was discovered that may have compromised registered users usernames, passwords, email addresses and other additional information. This breach is believed to be connected to the intrusion on kernel.org. As with any intrusion the Linux Foundation are advising that you should consider these passwords and [...]

    Connected devices industry specialist and automotive software expert join forces to deliver superior user experience for In-Vehicle-Infotainment solutions. Teleca, a world-leading supplier of solutions and services to the mobile and connected devices industries and the automotive software expert OpenSynergy GmbH today announced a strategic partnership. Tomi Rantakari, Senior Vice President, Automotive at Teleca and Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut, General Manager at Open Synergy, both [...]

  The Genivi Alliance has confirmed the Linux Foundations MeeGo IVI solution as Genivi Compliant. MeeGo joins the other distributions namely Canonical Ubuntu IVI Remix, Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform, MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform and Wind River Platform for Infotainment. Originally it was thought that MeeGo would be the base platform for all Genivi base IVI solutions but the Genivi Compliance program was announced on [...]

  On my travels on the inter-web thingy majig, I found the following article on Box2D and Box2d-Qml: What is Box 2D (according to Wikipedia) ? Box2D is a free open source 2-dimensional physics simulator engine written in C++ by Erin Catto and published under the zlib license. It has been used in Crayon Physics Deluxe, Rolando, Fantastic Contraption, Incredibots, Angry Birds, Transformice, Stripe physics and many online Flash games,[3] as well as iPhone, iPad and Android games using the Corona framework. Which nicely [...]

  We have seen the tech wars developing on different hardware platforms between the various operating systems but Android and ChromeOS have been snuggled up with nVidia as their exclusive playing ground. Due to closed sourced video drivers video hardware acceleration was a major obstacle for anyone to overcome. Well that was yesterday and today is today and that obstacle is no more. nVidia have [...]

What a thing of Beauty I tell you ? but then again you knew that. Here we have the ExoPC Tablet (which lucky developers have been getting their hands on at various MeeGo AppLabs). This is a versatile little beast that has had Meego Tablet Alpha, Ubuntu, Windows 7, WeTab and now MeeGo IVI Image on it. Do you fancy having a go? Creating the [...]