May 13

After the puzzle alarm clock this new gadget will take you out bed in the morning for sure :)

May 7

More information here.

May 4

A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture. The “Handheld Mojo” team has completed ARM builds of Feisty Fawn (named “Frisky Firedrake”) and Gutsy Gibbon (”Grumpy Griffin”), the Hardy Heron (”Hasty Hippogriff”) compilation is planned to starting soon.

May 3

Canola is a media center like application for Nokia Tablets, which makes it much quicker and easier to do multimedia tasks. Canola is based in a Python powered plugin architecture that is very easy to extend.

May 1

Chumby

The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web: news, photos, music, weather, celebrity gossip, webcams, sports scores — using your wireless internet connection. Always on, it shows — nonstop — what’s online that matters to you.

The chumby client is a Linux-based, open-source platform, very customizable and very cool to have one your desk, is a really cool gift for. I want one :D

Chumby

Apr 30

Harvard has started teaching open source to its aspiring MBA candidates. In the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, Harvard presents business managers with a tough decision: To open source a successful (but increasingly vulnerable) product or guard its intellectual property zealously? As the case study’s open source proponent suggests, “Open source is like a rising tide. You either float with it or drown.”

Source: Slashdot

Apr 29

Bossa conference is a great open source conference for mobile embedded platforms in a very cool place.
Where I get a invite for the next edition ? :D

Apr 28

Simply amazing, the guy use the build-in accelerometers to control the character in a very simple and fast way :D

Apr 27

During the last days, I played around with the OpenMoko Qemu emulator, there are some screenshosts.

OpenMoko new

The last user interface.

OpenMoko new

Simulating a call.

Qtopia OpenMoko

Qtopia in the emulator.

Old OpenMoko

The old interface.

Apr 25

Two funny OpenMoko videos, there are more 25 under the same user :)

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