Hot topic these days: Mobile applications, RIP - Offline web applications. Of course the Web2.0 guys (let me put it this way) have an agenda, but the developers tied to native environments have it as well. What to believe? There are many moving targets these days.
In the last years we have seen the omnipresent web [...]

Only 48h ago I was wondering GNOME Mobile: where are we? I got fast & precious feedback via Earth, Wind & Fire (can’t link to the improvised lunch shared with 6 GNOME+maemo hackers caught in the SMS corridors). Also some thoughts appeared in my laptop screen, surely pushed by the GNOME vivid source code itself.
I [...]

I’m introducing the GNOME Mobile initiative next Tuesday in the OpenMind conference (open source / open content \ open innovation - Tampere FI). The program is interesting, so interesting that it is clear that I can’t just go with the basics under the arm.
I’m gathering some ideas to open minds. Throw yours for inclusion if [...]

Finland and its 5,3M inhabitants keep surprising me, specially on anything relating to mobiles & Linux (both local inventions). This time is an Internet Tablet (aka MID / Multimedia Internet Device) called EB, manufactured by ElektroBit with Intel and Linux inside. Menlow processor, slide-out keyboard, 3,2Mb camera, GPS, Wlan / Bluetooth / Wimax / HSDPA… [...]

Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving).
I don’t have any study at hand, [...]