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Nokia spreading software bets after Symbian buy
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| Nokia says Symbian plays a central role in its software strategy, but
| analysts say the role of Linux in the company's Nokia phones is also set to
| increase, reflecting a mindset shift for a company that has long shunned
| using software from multiple vendors.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLL41029820080925
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill
someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You
just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need
to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
--Jim Allchin, Platform Group Vice President
Recent:
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
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| "We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an
| opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them," Symbian chief
| executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo. "And that could be on the
| application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system
| level."
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/16/symbian-extends-collaboration-offer-to-google-possibly-android.html
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
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| The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being
| formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led
| Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to. Enjoying 40 percent
| of the global handset market, and holding the largest stake in the
| market-leading Symbian platform, Nokia did not have to be quite as reactive
| as other manufacturers when it came to the open-source revolution. It was,
| however, inevitable that it would join the revolution and, after a suitable
| period of observer status, it chose the right time to do so.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=1888
Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
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| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
Opendocument format
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| Longer term I expect to see email applications to send ODF as well as html in
| their emails. Just so they can use the much broader ODF set of features.
|
| Interestingly, a text exchange format gets more useful when more applications
| support it. This should be obvious :)
| To speed up ODF recognition Qt 4.5 will ship with an ODF writer. Qt’s text
| module turns into a one stop document generation API where you can use
| QTextCursor to create your document via a nice API and you can then export
| the created QTextDocument to ODF ready to be opened by any opendocument
| implementation. Naturally exporting to plain text and html are still
| supported, as is printing to PDF.
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| Support for writing ODF in Qt sets a trend that we believe in the
| OpenDocument Format and we think its useful to have for our customers, the
| open source community and all end-users out there.
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http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/08/06/opendocument-format/
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