While making it crystal clear that this is only intended for developers that want a mega-early look at the platform, Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo team has just announced that the very first cut of the melded Moblin / Maemo mobile platform is available for download. Specifically, users of N900s, Atom notebooks, and Atom-powered Moorestown MIDs have all been gifted with their own distributions, which will boot off a USB stick or directly on the devices themselves. Sadly, the MeeGo user experience — the good stuff, that is — isn’t included here, so if you flash your N900 you’re going to end up booting into a terminal console, but hey, some of you sickos are into that sort of thing, aren’t you? Next up for the team is a release billed 1.0 that will come in May, and we’re told details on the road to that version will be unveiled over the coming days. Take care of yourselves if you go for it, alright?
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Apple said it expects the iPad to be a “second gold rush” of app development as consumers rush to add content to their new devices, and it looks like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers agrees: the venture capital firm just announced that it’s expanding the iFund to $200 million to invest in iPad app development. If you’ll recall, the iFund was originally announced alongside the iPhone OS 2.0 SDK, and provided $100 million in total investments to 14 iPhone app developers like Shazam, ngmoco, and Shopkick — companies responsible for 18 apps that have hit the App Store Top 10. Keep in mind that this money was promised before the iPhone App Store was even launched — so given how that bet paid off, it’s not surprising that KPCB’s decided to double down on the iPad, which looks like it’ll have even higher app prices. Along with the announcement, some iFund devs announced the following iPad apps:
- Pinger: Doodle Buddy and Starsmash
- Booyah: MyTown, a popular location-based game
- Shazam: Shazam, optimized for the new screen size,
- ngmoco: Flick Fishing, a new MMO called CastleCraft, Charadium (described as “massively multiplayer Pictionary”), God Finger, We Rule, WarpGate, and one more we missed — anyone catch it?
- GOGII: TextPlus
Nothing too surprising here, but it looks like the heavy hitters are going to be on the iPad bandwagon from day one — and pushing hard for this thing to be a success.
Kleiner Perkins iFund doubles to $200m, investing in iPad apps from Shazam, ngmoco and more originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The analogue television signal is switched off, leaving Wales the first UK nation to convert fully to digital TV.
Simmtronics’ Simmbook netbook has been floating around for a few months now, but it’s just gotten a considerable boost thanks to a partnership with IBM and Canonical, who have teamed up with the company in an effort to bring the netbook to emerging markets. That confluence of companies means the netbook will run on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and come pre-loaded with IBM’s Client for Smart Work, which includes Lotus Symphony and access to various cloud-based services. As for the netbook itself, it’s about as basic as you might expect, including the usual 10-inch display, Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, three-cell battery, and a 160GB hard drive (with a few upgrades available). Then again, it is available off-the-shelf for just $190 right now, and IBM and Simmtronics are apparently working with various clients to offer the netbook at “a competitive price” to other countries around the world.
Simmtronics, IBM and Canonical bring $190 Simmbook to emerging markets originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If we know you, you’re about ready to bathe your place of residence in some of those 802.11n waves you’ve been hearing so much about. Well, you’re in luck — the cats at Cisco have announces the Linksys E-Series line of routers for your home, flat, or small business. All of these bad boys feature the all new Cisco Connect software (with exhaustive parental control and a separate password-protected guest network). Priced between $80 and $180, select models include Gigabit Ethernet, UPnP AV Media Server, external storage via USB, Linux, and more. Available now at Amazon, Staples, and Linksys. For the whole sordid tale, peep the PR after the break.
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Wireless-N shocker! Cisco announces E-Series line of home routers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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