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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
Less than a week after the MeeGo 1.0 netbook operating system was released by Intel and Nokia, six companies have announced support for the platform while a market analyst firm has called for a "major investment" if it is to compete with Apple, Google and Microsoft.
By Rodney Gedda | 02 June, 2010 11:14
The mobile software collaboration project between Intel and Nokia has yielded the first release of MeeGo for netbooks with version 1.0 now available for download.
By Rodney Gedda | 28 May, 2010 05:37
The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0.
By Rodney Gedda | 09 April, 2009 11:06
Popular CD and DVD burning application for KDE, K3b is gearing up for its first port to KDE4 with a pending 2.0 release, but part of the Qt toolkit had to be forked to make it possible.
By Rodney Gedda | 24 March, 2009 12:05
Qt Software, a division Nokia, has released Qt 4.5.0, the first major release of the cross-platform GUI toolkit to be licensed under the LGPL and it ships with a new IDE for a complete SDK.
By Rodney Gedda | 04 March, 2009 09:53
Internet telephony software company Skype is pushing ahead with videoconferencing in a bigger way with the release of version 4.0 for Windows, but the company is yet to standardise its releases for Linux and Mac OS X.
By Rodney Gedda | 03 February, 2009 16:27
The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME.
By Rodney Gedda | 20 January, 2009 07:58
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