Forget the fumbling with tiny cell phone keys and virtual onscreen keyboards.Prof. Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of Tokyo University developed so-called "vision-based Input Interface" that allows users to control phone or even write short notes by capturing the movement of five fingers by embedded camera and translates it to command.

This touchless interface breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information. A prototype device developed by Tokyo University team is capable to process complex in-air movements of fing... .. .

Nokia N900 is probably the most ingenuous and powerful combination of software and hardware that they have ever created but it is also first of its kind and there are couple of missing features and few rough spots where the developers haven't completely finished their work.

From other hand operating systems are always a work in progress and the work is never done to improve them!

Look at Apple; it took them couple of years and numerous software and even hardware updates to get the native support for MMS but apparently it will not be the ca... .. .

If you need to tweak, delete or overwrite a system file in Nokia’s Symbian powered devices, you’ll quickly notice that you cannot change or even browse files and applications on the system partition of the phone. For instance if you want to overcome a security measures to install unsigned simple freeware application or game you’ll need to hack your phone or use Symbian’s rather annoying signing service.

This obnoxious concept was introduced by Nokia few years ago with its first S60 3rd edition phone (N80) and it is based on the idea that nobody gets access to these data caged directories which indeed improves the security but at the same time it makes these devices modding unfrien... .. .

NSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology is gaining momentum across a wide range of segments and applications such as navigation, telematics, person tracking, fitness, and high precision industrial applications including machine control, network timing and surveying. ABI Research forecasts GNSS system shipments to reach more than 500 million worldwide in 2010 and to continue growing to 1.1 billion in 2014.

“GNSS technology is increasingly enabling all mobile services,” says practice director Dominique Bonte. “Connected converged form factors such as hand... .. .

Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Mobile 1.0 which is now available for Maemo Devices as a preview release! If you’ve already got beta 5 installed on your Nokia N900 or N810, you will be receiving a software update shortly. Otherwise, if you’re viewing this on your device, you can get it for a test drive from here or you can visit Firefox.com/mobile to learn more and download it as well.

Firefox for Mobile 1.0 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performa... .. .

Time has gone by very fast this year, a lot has happened in 2009, and a lot is going to happen in 2010!

We can look back on a very cool Symbian/Maemo-year 2009, which was marked by few new more or less dissapointing devices devices but also with an uphill battle against well entrenched rivals such as Microsoft and its Windows Mobile, Linux based LiMo platform, and especially against newcomers such as Google's Open Source Android OS and Apple’s iPhone, not to mention Research In Motion which is here since the beginning and keeping the pressure on too.

In response to this growing competition within the mobile business, Nokia released something that market has been waiting for a years! Nokia N900 is probably the most inge... .. .

If you travel with a PC laptop or Mac notebook, you know it can be difficult to find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Whether you need to Keep up to date with the latest news and happenings, update your blog or simply send or receive emails, tethering a phone to your computer or laptop gives you Internet access anywhere.

If you travel with a PC laptop or Mac, you know it can be very difficult to find a Wi-Fi hotspot but with Internet tethering you don’t need it at all as you can use your carrier's wireless signal and anytime you need it.

With S60 devices it is quite simple as there are number of options to share the 3G connection on your phone with your laptop and connect to the Internet anywhere. I perso... .. .

If you are a big fan of the Matrix movie I'm betting you have already heard the pop culture term ‘redpill’. The movie relies on the premise that an artificial reality that is advanced enough will be indistinguishable from reality and that no test exists that can conclusively prove that reality is not a simulation.

Borrowing from the movie, the terms blue pill and red pill have become a popular metaphor for the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful, sometimes pleasant, truth of reality (red).

Well, in virtual Maemo’s world it is pretty much the same, Application manager normally works in a Blue Pill mode that includes many safety locks in place to reduce the risk of the user accid... .. .

Here's the flash based classic style game for Nokia N900 that is familiar to most everyone - a slider puzzle developed using Macromedia Flash that runs just fine with default N900’s web browser.

Click 'N Slide is a challenging but fun picture puzzle game which has been popular among kids and adults for hundreds of years. You start off with a jumbled up picture that consists of a grid of squares with one square missing and you need to try to put it together again.

So, the object of the game is seemingly simple, all you need to do is to slide the pieces of a jumbled picture around the screen by click on the piece that you wa... .. .

What some of you may or may not already know is that Nokia N900 comes with only one enabled Application catalogue.

It’s default Nokia catalogue which is still not completely cooked and unfortunately doesn't contain as many applications and games as you would expect so I’m pretty sure you’ll need an alternative source of applications and games!

The easiest way would be enabling the pre-configured Maemo Extras repository which is included in the App manager but disabled by default. Enabling is quite simple, just run App mana... .. .