The three day Maemo Summit is now underway in Amsterdam, the Maemo Summit 2009 is the second, annual get-together of the Maemo Community. Technology enthusiasts, apps developers, and platform developers meet to network, share their latest innovation, learn about future trends and just have fun. The summit will revolve around one Nokia day (today) and two community days where you can expect application demoes and other development related stories.

You can look up the entire schedule here to see if you find something interesting or you can catch the collaborative live …

If you have been wanting to try the recently launched Nokia Music Store India but have not purchased a handset that entitles you to free downloads, there is some good news for you. Hit http://music.nokia.co.in/myn5free to get 5 tracks free from the Nokia Music store. Click on this from your mobile phone and it will open the Nokia Music Store application.

The Nokia Music Store has some exclusive content such as Sona Mohapatra’s (who also performed at the Nokia Blogger’s Bootcamp in Bangalore) new track so make sure you choose wisely. …

At MAX 2009, Adobe showcased Flash 10.1, the version of flash that will work across smartphones, netbooks and mobile devices. The good thing about it is that it promises the exact same performance and functionality whether you are on a full fleged computer or a mobile device. Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, demoed Flash Player 10.1 on a number of devices starting with the N900 and the thing to notice was that how well the N900 performed.
While the N900 will ship with version 9 of Adobe’s Flash player, judging by the …

Nokia Conversations ran a post yesterday asking the community as to what you they like Nokia to do with the N900 and within a day they had over 80 idea. What they did next was even better. They have put together the best ideas in a poll which you can vote on and if you think you have something better to say, you can even add your wish to it.

On that list what I’d personally like to see is a complete sync with facebook – phonebook, events, birthdays and so …

With the N900 release just around the corner, the Maemo.org download page for Maemo 5 applications has just gone online. As you can see from the repetitions in the names of the apps below, the catalogue is currently thin with the total number of applications listed being only 9.

However, with the final SDK becoming available and there being still time till the N900 ships, you can expect this number to swell to a respectable figure with the Maemo open source community also joining in. For now, Ogg Player and OM …

Boeing will launch Digital Globe’s WorldView-2 satellite tomorrow i.e. Thursday 8th October in California. WorldView-2 is the first high-resolution 8-band multispectral satellite commercially available. The new bands support greater levels of feature identification and extraction, more accurate change detection, and a realistic mirror image of the world’s natural colors.

If you are wondering what does any of this have to do with Nokia, then read on.

Maemo Central has been born as a result of the new direction that Maemo promises to take. From being a platform for Nokia’s Internet Tablets it has moved to the platform of choice for Nokia’s ‘mobile computer’. Maemo 5 in its current state promises a fresh new experience coupled with a very visually appealing UI. Add to that the power of open source and the hacker community that Nokia is already encouraging, and you have a very potent mixture.
Maemo 6 promises much more. The possibility of multitouch, QT based applications …

A few weeks ago, I started a poll on The Symbian Blog about whether you will buy a Nokia N900 and here is how the results are progressing so far.

So if you fall in those 48% that would like to own a N900, I’d like to remind you that Nokia started taking pre-ordes for the N900 a little while ago and they have slowly been adding more and more countries to the ones that will get the N900 first. As of today, you can pre-order a N900 if you live …

The Maemo developer platform team just everyone know that ‘Maemo.Gitorious.org‘ has just gone live. In short, it will the place you will be able to see the Maemo platform develop and the whole open source idea kick in. If you want a little more explanation, here’s what the team had to say:
maemo.gitorious.org will be the place where Maemo devices develops the Maemo platform in the open.
Naturally the upstream projects that are used by Maemo Devices will be developed at the upstream sources, while everything else Maemo Devices  develops in the …

Forum Nokia today rolled out the final release of the Maemo 5 SDK that promises to pack everything that developers need to create applications for the N900. The SDK enables development of applications for Maemo 5 devices on a Linux based computer, it contains all the tools developers need to write, test, compile, and package for distribution Maemo 5 software. However, if you are a developer and you use a Windows machine or even a Mac, then you can turn to the VMWare based Maemo Virtual SDK that is …