FYI, According to a Mailing list email, There will be some maintenance performed on the MeeGo.com servers on Sat 16th July 16:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC and Sun 17th July 16:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC. So, just keep that in mind The MeeGo IT team is planning a maintenance window for the *.meego.com websites and mailing lists this weekend. The expected maintenance window is [...]

  Sometimes we just can’t get away from Windows and thats were Wine comes in. Wine enables us to run Windows applications under additional Operating Systems The Wine development release 1.3.23 is now available. What’s new in this release: Support for stubless COM proxies on x86-64. Builtin dxdiag now outputs real information. Monochrome bitmap format in the DIB engine. Beginnings of a true shell Explorer [...]

  Ixonos have announced that they have licensed Qualcomm’s chipset technology to be utilised in their future devices: “We have chosen Qualcomm’s chipsets as one of the key platforms for developing smartphones and other next-generation connected devices because of their maturity and strong Android integration”, says Ixonos Group’s President and CEO, Kari Happonen. “We also continue to deliver devices based on other chipsets from leading [...]

  Time to get together for another MeeGoExperts Birmingham UK MeeGo meetup (what a mouth full). The MeetUp is a chance for people of all walks of life and business to learn about the Operating System, Development and Opportunities in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. [Updated] The Agenda for the Event is still being firmed up but the mouth watering rough draft is: The MeeGoWay [...]

    Time to sit down. Dust off and reflect about the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. This was the Second MeeGo Conference, the first one being held in Dublin (Ireland) back in November . As numbers go the event was a success, with the keynote being full capacity.   There were the almost obligatory Hacker Lounge / WereWolf sessions with a bigger and comfier [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  Sometimes you need to hear the news from the horses mouth (I hope they forgive me … Lol), well here it is, the MeeGo community talking about MeeGo at the MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco part of the Keynote:

  Complete MeeGo Compliance packages for ensured compatibility. GCC 4.5.1 toolchain with great support for the Intel Atom* micro-architecture and the Intel SSSE3 instruction set, as well as with great ARM support. It has Linaro 2010.09 patches adding hard floating-point for all known ARMV7-A chipsets including Tegra2 and Marvell chips with sub-architectures of Thumb2/Neon. Linux kernel 2.6.37, with support for Intel Atom processor Z6xx series [...]

  Intel announced its 3D Tri-Gate transistor that is going to be in its next generation processing platform code named “Ivy Bridge” based on 22-nm architecture. The design was originally demonstrated in 2002 but it is now entering production. Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Process Architecture and Integration demonstrates the new Tri-Gate Transistor and how it improves Performance and Energy [...]

  Heres the title of a very “subtle” LG session title to be presented at next months MeeGo Conference held in San Francisco (May 23-25). PORTING OF MEEGO ON LGE MULTIPLE SMART DEVICES AND INTRODUCTION ON LGE’S OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTION PLAN FOR MEEGO. Session details below, but it is still being updated and I don’t think this was for the public at this stage. Session [...]

This week welcomes the start of the MeeGo Summit in Tampere (Finland). Although the summit itself quickly sold out the Meegathon competition still has space for new teams. Further information can be found at http://summit.meegonetwork.fi but some of the key points to keep in mind are: *Teams don’t have to use the AR drone in their entry. *Team members will be able to register for [...]

Today Digia Plc. has signed an agreement with Nokia to acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business. This will mean around 3500 desktop and embedded customer companies from various industries are targeted to be transferred to Digia. The transaction is expected to be closed by the end of March 2011.

Following the release of their Python for Qt v1.0 RC1 a couple of weeks ago the PySide team is now “thrilled” (their word not mine) to announce the release of