Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 2 May 2011

Front Page Nokia to lay off 4,000 staff – mostly in Symbian and MeeGo areas Within a week of Nokia and Microsoft signing their “strategic partnership”, the next phase of Nokia's change in direction has been revealed: a reduction in headcount by 4,000 and the move of 3,000 additional staff to Accenture to maintain Symbian: “Nokia laid out plans to align its global workforce and consolidate its site operations to deliver upon the new strategy, as well as the projected cost savings announced last week. Nokia expects the total reduction of personnel, across all sites and countries, to total 4,000 employees (out of approximately 65,000 worldwide, not including NSN) by the end of 2012

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 2 May 2011

Front Page Nokia to lay off 4,000 staff – mostly in Symbian and MeeGo areas Within a week of Nokia and Microsoft signing their “strategic partnership”, the next phase of Nokia's change in direction has been revealed: a reduction in headcount by 4,000 and the move of 3,000 additional staff to Accenture to maintain Symbian: “Nokia laid out plans to align its global workforce and consolidate its site operations to deliver upon the new strategy, as well as the projected cost savings announced last week. Nokia expects the total reduction of personnel, across all sites and countries, to total 4,000 employees (out of approximately 65,000 worldwide, not including NSN) by the end of 2012.

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Recovering a Bricked Nokia #N900

Well, I finally did it. Last night, I bricked my Nokia N900.

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App Search Widget For The N900 Makes Launching Apps From The Homescreen A Breeze

In most areas the N900 supports the ability to start typing to automatically search for the relevant content.

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OpenJazz

/ 0 votes – 13 downloads Updated 2010-07-06 20:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit games. To play, you will need the files from one of the original games.

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#iwny – Bar codes and Location: Foursquare, Stickybits, Yellow Arrow and the Nokia #N900

An important theme at Internet Week New York seems to be bar codes and location. As participants arrived for Internet Week, many checked in on Foursquare, and some have received a special InternetWeek Foursquare badge. At the press conference kicking off events, Commissioner of The New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting Katherine Oliver spoke about QR Codes in Time Square on Thursday

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Up next for the Nokia N900: 3D games, mobile Firefox (Geek.com)

The N900, Nokia’s flagship smartphone, packs in serious oomph in terms of both hardware and software. However, as someone once said: It’s the software, stupid

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Google Nexus One Review from a Nokia Lover

I can’t give you proper reviews of Nokia devices if I don’t try other phones from other manufacturers for comparison. I’ve been using the Google Nexus One in the past 30 days and have been really enjoying it. I’ll share my review of the Nexus One with lots of comparisons to Nokia’s current superphone, the Nokia N900 .

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Conversations on Nokia N900 Adds Support for Facebook Chat, AIM, MSN & More With Extra …

This is big! The latest version of Extra Protocol Plugins for Conversations and Contacts on the Nokia N900 adds support for Facebook chat, AIM, MSN, and more. The integration of instant messaging within the contacts book on the N900 is already excellent, but the addition of more services make the N900 an even more powerful messaging device. After installation, you can go to Settings – VoIP and IM accounts to add your accounts.

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Catorise: auto-organise N900 applications (Jaffa@maemopeople)

In a brief break from Hermes -related Maemo work, I was inspired by Manfred Weiss ‘ MyMenu to create an auto- organising menu application for the N900: Catorise organises the application menu to have top-levels corresponding to the sections in Application Manager. Features: Uses the section icons from the current theme, falling back to the default theme if none available.

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