Moblin™ Zone

MeeGo* enables an open ecosystem for rapid development of exciting new user experiences

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
•    Global leaders Intel Corporation and Nokia merge Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo*, a Linux-based software platform that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

•    MeeGo offers the Qt application development environment, and builds on the Moblin core operating system and reference user experiences. Using Qt, developers can write once to create applications for a variety of devices and platforms, and market them through Nokia’s Ovi Store and Intel AppUpSM Center.

•    MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and governed using the best practices of the open source development model. The first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with devices launching later in the year.

•    Nokia and Intel expect MeeGo to be adopted widely by global device manufacturers, network operators, semiconductor companies, software vendors and developers.

Intel's Atom™ processor and the Moblin™ Project were in the spotlight at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where more than 2,500 technology companies introduced more than 20,000 new products. Big tech companies like Novell, Samsung, Dell and MSI are among those on the cutting edge of mobile and embedded technologies who were announcing and showing products and services that make use of Atom™ and/or the Moblin™ Project offerings.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has embarked on an ambitious project to put a million PCs into the hands of educators and students by 2011.

Oh, to be a software developer in Lake Wobegon. In this fictional Minnesota town, created by Garrison Keeler for his radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” It’s safe to assume that programmers in Lake Wobegon find that their applications compile correctly the first time, run flawlessly, require no debugging and never, ever need optimization.