My OperaMozilla's Minimo challenges Opera for Mobile platforms
Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:36:20 PM
Mozilla's Minimo is challenging to Opera and could eventually present the firm with competitive pressures if it isn't doing so already.
Three reports . . .
Minimo 0.010 Released
Doug Turner announced the release of Minimo 0.010 for Windows CE This latest release of the browser for mobile and handheld devices includes Smartphone accessibility features, improved scrolling support and automatic form fill functionality.
Minimo 0.010 also adds support for Windows CE 5.0 (which is the basis of the Windows Mobile 5.0 software), improves the handling of popup windows, implements user interface zooming and introduces an integrated search toolbar. In addition, Minimo 0.010 uses a stub runner application to avoid loading two large processes. See Turner's blog for additional details.
France Telecom Supporting Minimo Development
Tuesday October 18th, 2005
Doug Turner has announced that France Telecom Research and Development (FTRD) has been contributing to Minimo. The FTRD team, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is part of telecommunications giant France Telecom, which owns the Orange mobile phone network among other interests. FTRD plans to use Minimo as a platform upon which to build mobile widgets — small applets that help users to perform specific tasks using mobile devices.
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"We truly have a shared interest in producing a browser for the devices space designed by people that use devices," Doug concluded. He also confirmed that FTRD's involvement is part of the reason why Minimo development has accelerated recently and why the Minimo Mini-Roadmap was published in August.
Nokia delays 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia's much-anticipated Linux-based Web tablet reportedly will not ship until later this year. Previously, Nokia said it would ship the 770 Internet Tablet in September. The tablet is the mobile phone marketshare leader's first consumer product based on Linux.
Sources at Nokia blamed the delay on a need to finalize the device's software environment, according to eWEEK.com. Given a recent announcement from the Minimo Project, it seems possible that licensing talks between Nokia and embedded browser vendor Opera may have broken down.
Prototypes of the 770 included Opera's embedded browser; however, the Minimo project, a community effort to build an embedded Web browser based on Mozilla, and rumored to be anonymously funded by Nokia, recently published an aggressive short-term roadmap culminating in a Dec. 22 release.
Three reports . . .
Minimo 0.010 Released
Doug Turner announced the release of Minimo 0.010 for Windows CE This latest release of the browser for mobile and handheld devices includes Smartphone accessibility features, improved scrolling support and automatic form fill functionality.
Minimo 0.010 also adds support for Windows CE 5.0 (which is the basis of the Windows Mobile 5.0 software), improves the handling of popup windows, implements user interface zooming and introduces an integrated search toolbar. In addition, Minimo 0.010 uses a stub runner application to avoid loading two large processes. See Turner's blog for additional details.
France Telecom Supporting Minimo Development
Tuesday October 18th, 2005
Doug Turner has announced that France Telecom Research and Development (FTRD) has been contributing to Minimo. The FTRD team, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is part of telecommunications giant France Telecom, which owns the Orange mobile phone network among other interests. FTRD plans to use Minimo as a platform upon which to build mobile widgets — small applets that help users to perform specific tasks using mobile devices.
[snip]
"We truly have a shared interest in producing a browser for the devices space designed by people that use devices," Doug concluded. He also confirmed that FTRD's involvement is part of the reason why Minimo development has accelerated recently and why the Minimo Mini-Roadmap was published in August.
Nokia delays 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia's much-anticipated Linux-based Web tablet reportedly will not ship until later this year. Previously, Nokia said it would ship the 770 Internet Tablet in September. The tablet is the mobile phone marketshare leader's first consumer product based on Linux.
Sources at Nokia blamed the delay on a need to finalize the device's software environment, according to eWEEK.com. Given a recent announcement from the Minimo Project, it seems possible that licensing talks between Nokia and embedded browser vendor Opera may have broken down.
Prototypes of the 770 included Opera's embedded browser; however, the Minimo project, a community effort to build an embedded Web browser based on Mozilla, and rumored to be anonymously funded by Nokia, recently published an aggressive short-term roadmap culminating in a Dec. 22 release.
