I sat down with Pankaj Kedia today. Pankaj is responsible for ecosystem development for the ultra mobility group at Intel and plays an important role in interfacing with software developers and bringing their products into ultra mobile devices. I…

We’re still trying to digest and analyse the Maemo, Moblin, Nokia, Intel, MeeGo news but it’s clear that this is a serious marketing effort. It also raises a lot of questions.

It happened. Maemo and Meego launched. Im standing in the press conference now and will report later but expect Meego to be available in Q2.

More info at Meego.com

The Big Merge: A Message from Intel and Nokia…

We were expecting (a beta release of) Moblin 2.1 for handhelds before end of 2009 but it didn’t turn up. In a search this morning, however, found this. It’s a month old but it’s a build of Moblin for…

Two items of news related to Linux support on the Menlow platorm have caught my attention in the last 24 hours. Both news items are related to the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Laptopmag have beaten me to a full review of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet. That will teach me for playing around with it too much! Read on…

No, this isn’t Moblin 2.1 for handhelds but it’s a step in the right direction along the roadmap (shown in article.) As 2.1 for handhelds feeds in (due for a beta release before the end of the year) the two branches of 2.1 should merge to make way for a unified OS that can support MIDs (on Moorestown) UMPCS (with some tweaking of drivers to support Menlow) and the netbooks and nettops that this new release of Moblin is aimed at. Moblin 2.1 for netbooks is now available for download.

It is just me or does it seem like Android is the hot thing right now? Motorola and Verizon have been teasing the internet for the last few days about their upcoming Droid phone which is powered by Android…

Chippy has posted a video of the Moblin 2.1  at IDF 2009. Moblin is Intel’s open source operating system project for MIDs and netbooks. While it is already up to version 2.1, it has seen very little adoption so…

When I started using the Omnia Pro I was well prepared for fonts that would be too small (in real sizing terms) to read. I’m having to zoom in on Opera Mobile to read text despite it being rendered…

As the Archos press conference starts in Paris, it seems the information on the tablet has already leaked. This is unconfirmed information from OS informer, translated from German. More news as it happens. (I’ll update this post below)

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Tablet news is on a real high this month and the latest information to hit us is something I had almost forgotten about. The Archos Android Tablet. Archos have announced an event for Sept 15th which is just days after…

Geek.com recently published an update to their Moblin 2 review noting some major improvements to the OS. Sure enough, when I revisited it on a Medion Akoya (MSI Wind equivalent) the experience was very slick and trouble-free. It’s a smooth and slim operating system for sure but is it enough for today’s netbook and mobile computer users?

On the 7th July, Google announced that they are developing an operating system called ‘Google Chrome OS.’

“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.”

This is a subject we discussed at length on the last MeeMobility podcast. Operating systems for smartbooks. Android appears to be a great brand but it’s not ready for the big(ger) screen yet. As far as I know,…

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the prospect of Android being employed full time as a netbook OS. It looks like Acer is taking one of the first big steps and officially stating that they will…

News from the Maemo weekend in Copenhagen; Canonical will switch to Maemo-derivative Mer from the Moblin 1.0 build for it’s Ubuntu MID derivative. Moblin 2.0 is no longer MID-focused so it looks like Intel have just lost a significant partner in their MID ecosystem.