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<title>Jolla's MeeGo-based SailFish OS shown off in video</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/24/multitasking.centric.os.gets.sneak.peek.in.video/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1353812149_jolla-sailfish-os.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Jolla, the smartphone company started by a team of ex-Nokia employees, has released a pair of new videos showing off the OS that will power its handsets, SailFish OS. The videos showcase the user interface and multitasking capabilities of the operating system, which is said to be due for release some time in 2013. In one video, viewers get a peek at the kind of hardware that SailFish will run on, ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Feature: How Nokia lost control of its own destiny </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/16/nokia.a.victim.of.its.own.success.and.poor.choices/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1210/nokia-protest-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[How does a company that was the leading mobile handset maker in the world for 15 years, and $11 Billion in cash just five years ago become an also ran? Thatís a question many at Nokia must have asked themselves as they watched it lose control of its own destiny and instead become highly reliant on a strategic alliance with Microsoft to survive. A former manager with the Finnish phone giant spoke w...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia sheds Qt app unit, leans more on Microsoft </title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/nokia-qt-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nokia has sold off its Qt app tools unit as the company leans further on its partnership with Microsoft, reports Bloomberg. The Finnish handset maker offloaded the Qt unit including around 125 staff to long-time partner Digia signaling the end of its in-house software development efforts. Nokia had bought into Qt as a cross-platform application development framework to encourage developers to writ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia hands MeeGo patents to make Jolla possible</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/10/nokia.backs.new.meego.startup.jolla.hands.over.patents/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/n9.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Jolla, the newly-founded Finnish startup aiming to resuscitate Nokia's abandoned MeeGo mobile OS, has received a helping hand from Nokia, reports ItViiko. The code underpinning MeeGo, like Android, is  Linux-based and open source and came into existence when Nokia and Intel formed an alliance to merge Nokia's Maemo OS with Intel's Moblin OS. This still left a number of OS patents in Nokia's hands,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ex-Nokia MeeGo team unite to create new smartphones</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/09/meego.resuscitated.by.ex.nokia.employees.and.meego.community/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/nokian9-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A team of ex-Nokia employes have joined with a group of MeeGo coders to form a new smartphone company dubbed Jolla. Jolla is Finnish for 'dinghy,' which suggests that its goal is to create a life raft for the stalled platform and push it forward commercially. The new organization is headed up by a former 11 year veteran of Nokia Marc Dillon who was the Principal Engineer of its Maemo OS, before it...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia said keeping MeeGo alive with two budget smartphones </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/28/nokia.rumored.to.be.working.on.two.meego.phones/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/nokian9-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nokia is working on two entry-level MeeGo phones as part of its Next Billion Group project, NetbookNews heard from sources from within that group. The mission of the group is to bring the Internet to a billion people who currently don't have access to it in many third-world countries. To do so requires a free operating system, which Windows Phone isn't, while Symbian is run by Accenture and being ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NITDroid posts Android 4.0 hack for Nokia N9</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/22/nokia.n9.hacked.to.run.on.android.403/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/n9android4in.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[NITDroid Development forum member e-yes has just shared a custom ROM of Android 4.0.3 for Nokia's N9. Dubbed Project Mayhem, the hack lets users choose which OS they want to boot into after powering the phone up. The handset usually runs on MeeGo, and many of the key functions are retained when running Anroid....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia patent allows slide-to-unlock without Apple dispute</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/nokiaslidetounlock.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A just-published but long in the making Nokia patent filing has revealed that Nokia has been working on a slide-to-unlock patent of its own.  The approach would have users slide an icon on the screen to 'uncover' app icons.  By then moving to an unlock area, users would have a two-stage unlock that could launch any app accessible from the home screen....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia would like to scrap ports, add NFC on Windows Phones</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/31/nokia.designer.talks.about.even.more.minimalism/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/nokia-markoahtisaari.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nokia's newly promoted executive design VP, Marko Ahtisaari, has hinted in a interview that he'd like Nokia's phones to go even more minimalist than today.  He noted to the Guardian that designs like the Lumia 900 were showing where Nokia was going, where it had dropped the USB door cover to produce a direct port.  He could imagine at one point going without any connectors, although the newspaper ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia promises MeeGo Harmattan 1.2 beta to devs soon</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/18/nokia.promises.meego.harmattan.12.beta.to.devs/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1107/nokian9.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nokia has revealed it will soon release the Meego Harmattan 1.2 beta update to developers who already have the N950 developer phone. The update is said to contain more than 3,000 new features, fixes and other changes, with video calling, folders for the home screen, and new camera and gallery apps rumored to be among them....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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