We  had covered Sailfish, the mobile OS that Finnish startup Jolla was developing, a few months back. The OS is based on MeeGo, the OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone OS. A lot of developers had dedicated a fair bit of time to Nokia’s linux based platform to see it get axed this way. The most passionate among them forked the MeeGo codebase and over time created the new gesture based...

Last week, there seemed to be a product leak from Google. This was about the so called Chromebook Pixel which was pegged as Google’s flagship computing device, something that could give some very good competition to Apple’s laptop products in terms of hardware. Google remained tight-lipped about it and the leak seemed to be unsubstantiated. Now, Google has officially removed the wraps from their...

Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world unveiled some big plans day before yesterday. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu already has aspirations for Linux to leave the geekiness associated with it far behind and break into the consumer mainstream, something Android has successfully done. Ubuntu Mobile, Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu Enterprise are the different products...

2013 might just turn out to be a killer year for mobile platforms! We have Blackberry launching BB 10 on January 30th. We also have Mozilla’s promising FireFox OS to look out for this year. Adding to this is a mobile design and development company, Jolla which has been working on its own open source mobile operating system. The startup is made up of Nokia employees that broke off from the company...

The world is riding the smartphone wave. Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy series and Xperia Neo will surely ring a bell as they are household names today. A telecommunications device strictly meant for verbal exchange over great distances has come from a rudimentary transmitter-receiver assembly to being what it is today – capable of stunning tasks; sleek and small, it carries capabilities of the fastest...

Nokia’s abandoned Mobile Operating System (OS) MeeGo is set for a revival. A Finnish start-up Jolla Ltd, by Nokia’s ex-employees will take the development of the OS forward & plan to launch a smartphone within this year itself. MeeGo, was developed by Nokia for smartphones based on Intel’s hardware & had a working smartphone named Nokia N9. However, Nokia chose to stifle further development...

Google has officially released the latest version of ‘Chrome’ with some productive features. The latest Version 19 of the browser which works on all the operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux & Google’s own Chrome brings  ‘Tab Syncing’ too. What’s so special? People are carrying multiple devices that can easily stay connected to the internet. However these devices cannot seamlessly...

The Economic Times carries a report on a draft policy which says all new E-Governance projects should use open source software on computers and attached devices. The Department of Information Technology which is behind the draft has put forward the draft to hardware manufacturers and others before finalizing it. A major benefit after this draft gets implemented is of course ‘saving money‘....

As of 4th February, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS will be offered as a free open source download for anyone wanting to dabble with it. Nokia, which in 2008 had acquired Symbian and established the independent non-profit Symbian Foundation, has decided to publish the source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). Being the most widely distributed smartphone platform, this event marks...

Have you ever used Google Image Search to look for ‘Apple’ the fruit and instead find yourself sifting through scores of Ipods, MacBooks, Iphones and a certain Mr. Steve Jobs before finally finding that, literally, forbidden fruit? Well, then you’d better hope that Google’s latest Labs Experiment -> Image Swirl is a big success. What does it do? It takes potentially ambiguous...