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Here and Now: what's on near you now (Jaffa@maemopeople)

Nokia's N8, a Symbian^3 device, comes with a service called Here and Now. This reads the cell tower information you're currently connected to and opens a web page detailing...

Open Letter / Proposal to allow Maemo on the MeeGo Community OBS

This is an open letter to the whole MeeGo community and on behalf of the Maemo development community. The purpose of this letter is to ask the MeeGo community for their permission to bring Maemo build targets (currently Fremantle eventually Harmattan,...

A (phone) recorder widget for Maemo

The power of the N900 continues to amaze me again and again. I’ve been a big fan of the gstreamer media framework since shortly after I got my N900 at the Amsterdam Summit, but the possibilites that this brings to Maemo are really extraordinary...

bugs.maemo.org moving to new hardware in the next 0-6 hours

bugs.maemo.org will be moving to the new hardware during the next hours. This will cause an outage in bugs.maemo.org. The databases may be read only for a while. So bugs.maemo.org is now showing a nice white page.

Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org

As some know, we removed some emulators from maemo.org due to a legal dispute between Nokia and Nintendo. The dispute was not related to the emulators itself, but since the maemo.org infrastructure *is* paid for by Nokia, we decide to remove the emulators...

A Maemo Minute

A friend was over on Sunday. His iPhone rang, and he took a call. After the call, I showed him the loaner N900 that I have. After playing with the media player, multi-tasking, desktop, and liking the 'call type' selector, he commented: "This is sick!...