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The KDE open source project has released version 4.7 of its KDE Software Compilation (SC) suite debuting support for the new Telepathy unified communications infrastructure and a new level of user experience, according to its developers.
By Rodney Gedda | 28 July, 2011 10:24
Nokia’s decision to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system in its future smartphone devices hasn’t stopped the MeeGo open source project from continuing its development with version 1.2 released today sporting app and telephony updates.
By Rodney Gedda | 20 May, 2011 11:15
New open source projects have been launched by KDE developers aimed at bringing a consistent user interface across a varied of touch screen interfaces like tablets and entertainment devices and take data integration to a new level.
By Rodney Gedda | 12 April, 2011 10:42
In the lead up to the next major release of its flagship Web browser, Firefox, Mozilla Corporation is now releasing public builds of Firefox 4 beta compiled with Nokia's Qt environment in addition to the incumbent GTK+.
By Rodney Gedda | 17 January, 2011 11:47
In an effort to attract more developers into using its open source Qt framework for Symbian and MeeGo, Nokia will host a series of “code camps” and device seeing programs over the next six months. A MeeGo tablet interface, however, may not surface for some time yet.
By Rodney Gedda | 26 November, 2010 11:20
The final release of KDE 4.4 is due in early 2010, and not since the arrival of KDE 4.0 two years ago has an open source desktop environment been so highly anticipated by the free desktop community. Unlike the anti-climax that was the first KDE 4 release, however, KDE 4.4's developers say this new version will actually deliver on many of the original promises of this next-generation desktop environment -- and then some.
By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2009 15:12
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