Oracle JavaFX to go open source and support more platforms
According to The Register, JavaFX will soon become available for Android and iOS. This is part of a plan to make the language free and open source. Opening up JavaFX should dramatically increase its adoption.
Ubuntu phone
Canonical's Ubuntu is widely reported to be releasing a new mobile cell phone.
Ubuntu now fits your phone
Introducing the superphone that’s also a full PC
And why not run standard PC software on a phone? The hardware is becoming fast enough. In fact my existing phone's processor and memory have a significantly greater specification than my core router which runs Debian GNU/Linux.
Google Nexus 10
Does anybody know where in the UK I can purchase a Google Nexus 10 Android tablet? It's a 10 inch touch screen tablet with a decent screen (hopefully these screen will be in laptops soon). It was supposed to be release in the UK in November 2012. It is Christmas now and still no sign of it!
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Free Sat-Nav now available for Nokia E71
Free Sat-Nav for your mobile phone
Nokia Ovi Maps has been offered for free with certain handsets since January 2010. We will update you when this offer is extended to the older enterprise smart phones.
Netbook operating system choice
The Economist has an interesting article on the decisions you need to make when choosing a netbook computer. It is suggested that you use the bundled tuned operating system based on the Linux kernel.
Nokia E71 email integration
We have an existing email infrastructure running uw-imapd and exim4 on Debian GNU/Linux Etch and needed to hook up a Nokia E71 mobile telephone to this existing setup.
The existing infrastructure has run without issue for many years. However the E71 would take a minute or so to retrieve just a single email. Therefore some alternatives were tried.