Trolltech pulls the Greenphone
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'Not really a hardware company' The Greenphone, launched with much publicity at LinuxWorld 2006, has been discontinued as Trolltech reckons the Neo 1973 can fulfil the role of a development platform, and therefore Greenphone has served its purpose.â¦
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Does this down-and-out telecom have any juice left?
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MOBILE phone users left talking to themselves when their battery runs out in the middle of a call could soon see an end to their frustration as scientists perfect a way to recharge electrical equipment while on the move.
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(InfoWorld) - Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) has sued Samsung Telecommunications America LLP, claiming that Samsung's BlackJack smart phone violates the BlackBerry trademark. RIM is asking that Samsung be stopped from selling the BlackJack and Black Carbon mobile phones and is seeking unspecified damages, according to court filings. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. "Samsung is misleading the public into falsely believing that Samsung's goods and services are connected with RIM's business," the filing states. The US$450 BlackJack phone was introduced last month to the U.S. market, where it is sold exclusively by Cingular Wireless LLC. Black Carbon is an ultra-thin phone sold directly by Samsung. A Samsung spokesman declined to comment on the matter. "Samsung is not going to comment on pending litigation," he said.
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An adapter made by Siemens allows phones to make calls using the Internet or the traditional phone network.
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Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, UK, along with PVAXX Research &amp; Development, have devised a way to recycle discarded mobile telephones.
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Stuffs finger in waterfall UniquePhones has pulled its iPhone unlocking service after receiving calls from lawyers claiming to represent AT&amp;T and threatening to sure the Belfast-based firm for copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Trolltech is offering a suite of products designed to make it easier for mobile phone makers to develop Linux-based smart phones. Called the Qtopia Greensuite, it aims to unify the disjointed mobile Linux development environment by bundling together several applications and tools that are available separately today from a variety of vendors. The products in the suite include RealNetworks' mobile multimedia software, Opera Software's mobile phone browser, MontaVista Software's operating system, and Mimer Information Technology's SQL database management product. The suit also includes WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) and HTML browsers, messaging software, video and audio recording capabilities, DRM (digital rights management), 3D graphics, video telephony, VOIP (voice over IP) support, a VPN (Virtual Private Network) client and Java MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile). The applications come pre-integrated with Qtopia Phone edition, Trolltech's application development platform for Linux phones. Phone makers that use the suite will save time developing their products because they won't have to integrate all of the software components themselves, Trolltech said. The first version of the suite is due in the second quarter next year. It uses Qtopia's Greenphone as the hardware platform for developing and testing applications. Qtopia introduced the phone, which can operate on a live mobile GSM/GPRS (Global System for Mobile Communications/General Packet Radio Service) network, in August. Qtopia Greensuite will be demonstrated at the ITU World Telecom 2006 show, which starts Dec. 4 in Hong Kong. No pricing has been announced yet. While interest in mobile Linux is growing around the world, the disjointed development environment has slowed momentum. Several groups have formed in the past couple of years to try to unify the environment. The Linux Phone Standards Forum, whose members include France Telecom, MontaVista, and VirtualLogix, are creating application programming interfaces to allow applications to interoperate across Linux handsets. TheÂ Mobile Linux Initiative, started by the Open Source Development LabsÂ with members including Motorola, Intel, and NEC, is unifying developments around the mobile Linux kernel. Forty mobile phone makers including Motorola and ZTE Corp. use Qtopia. Motorola is one of the biggest mobile handset makers using Linux, which is most popular as a mobile phone operating system in China.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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After Nokia announced plans to acquire open source technology maker Trolltech earlier in the week, Motorola ended the week by showing its support for open source technology, while also stating how it will shift away from Trolltech technologies.
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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I'm going to tell you about one of the biggest trolls of 2007. Now, I'm not talking about someone schooling HuSi or Slashdot. &nbsp; I'm not talking about someone rickrocking the comment boards at Newgrounds. I'm going to tell you about a troll of international scope. &nbsp;
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Company pulls MyMo phone off the market after health concerns are raised.
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Not since the introduction of the cell phone has the plain old home phone been in for such upheaval. The device long used for landline calling, recording voice mails, and storing phone lists may find itself replaced.
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Trolltech, a provider of software development platforms and frameworks, hopes to open up mobile application development to Web developers with support for WebKit.Trolltech plans to announce on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has integrated QT, its development platform, with WebKit, the Web browser technology used by Apple, Nokia, Google, Motorola and others. The integration should make it easier for developers to build products that integrate online components into mobile phone applications.Trolltech, a Norwegian company that&#160;Nokia recently announced plans to buy, has integrated the tools so that developers can build the bulk of an application using HTML and the rest using C ++. By using HTML to create most of the application, handset makers can save development costs because C ++ engineers are typically harder to find and more expensive to use, said Benoit Schillings, CTO of Trolltech. However, they can still create some features using C ++, which offers more functionality and performance.A handset maker could decide to use HTML to create features that it might want to tweak to appeal to different audiences. For example, a handset maker may want to enlarge visual items on a page in a phone designed for older people, and they can adapt and customize those features quicker using HTML than C ++, Schillings said.Even though the applications may be primarily built using HTML, they don&#39;t have to be browser-based or require an Internet connection, he said. However, he envisions interesting ways to combine offline and online applications.For example, Trolltech has demonstrated an address book application that phone users can access without going online. The application collects information from a user&#39;s Facebook friends, adding photos or other new content from friends&#39; Facebook pages into their address book entry.The Qt WebKit integration will be available as a module in Qt 4.4, which is expected to come out in the second quarter.Trolltech also planned to release Qtopia Phone Edition version 4.3 in Barcelona, adding support for new features including touch-screens. The new Qtopia Synch Agent syncs data between Qtopia and Microsoft Outlook.&#160;
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You might ignore your mobile phone if  your ringtone is Beethoven's "Fur Elise," but what if it's a  gruff voice that yells "Pick up the damn phone?"
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Dan Farber: "It's not hard to imagine a contextual ad showing up every time you Twitter something. Twitter 'I am drinking beer with friends' and a Budweiser ad shows up. Now imagine the Twitter revolt." Oh yes there would be quite a revolt, a powerless one, unless there was an alternate service we could all switch to and then assuming we could get off our asses and actually switch. Yeah, we're good at screaming, but not too great at acting, here. I'm a bit of a Twit, myself, and I'd find it revolt-worthy if they tried to interrupt or punctuate discourse with product placements, but then Twitter's destiny is, imho, to be acquired by a phone company and sold as a feature that gives users a reason to use one brand of phone over another. Not as a way for advertisers to hitch their "messages" on our discourse. We've seen how well that has (not) worked with advertising on email. Not likely to work much better on Twits. Imagine if Nokia offered a cell phone with Twitter built-in, a checkbox for SMS users (default on?) -- "Do you want to send SMS messages to your buddy list?"  Don't you think the kids would go for that? (Maybe they can already do it, it's likely that I'm that cluelss.)
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Web beautification for mobile Mobile World Congress Cross-platform tools specialist Trolltech has updated its popular Qt framework by integrating the WebKit browser engine.â¦