Nokia MeeGo mobile platform

Nokia has announced its latest handset for developing markets, the Nokia Asha 501 , relaunching the Asha touch series and borrowing some of MeeGo ‘s usability for a mass audience. Arriving in India, Latin America, and Africa from late June, and priced at just $99 pre-tax and subsidies, the Asha 501...

The secret is to run faster. That was Dave Neary's advice for winning a race. Which isn't perhaps that strange when you consider that his talk at OSCON last year was on 'Hacking your body: running as performance tuning', and he's a qualified athletics coach. But Dave also has some serious geek...

Jolla, the Finnish startup that carried the MeeGo torch out of Nokia in order to light a fire under its own smartphone OS: Sailfish , has taken the next step in its platform play, launching SDK installers to encourage developers to get building native Sailfish apps. It’s offering graphical...

Legend has it that Anssi Vanjoki , the ex-Nokia VP who many inside the company once thought would be its next CEO, used to refer to the now-defunct MeeGo OS team as the “Alpha team” based on their hard work and ability to produce results with limited resources. It perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise...

Jolla , the Finnish startup formed by ex-Nokians with the hope of rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of Nokia’s abandoned MeeGo platform — via its Sailfish OS — has secure an outside investment from a company based in Hong Kong. The company, China Fortune , formerly known as Fortune Telecom...

A Finnish startup created by two former Nokia executives is hoping to break through with their fledgling mobile operating system. [Read more]

This is perfectly edible, man, what's wrong with you? A new phone OS based on the work Nokia abandoned on its Linux-based mobile OS has been unveiled in Helsinki. Jolla is a start-up run by former Nokia staffers devised to build on the old MeeGo project, which is now called Mer. The Sailfish OS is...

Breaking into the smartphone market with a new platform may seem to be a tall order, but Finnish company Jolla think it can be done and has demonstrated the user interface of its upcoming operating system Sailfish.

As promised , Finnish startup Jolla has given a first demo of its new MeeGo-based OS, Sailfish. The company, which was founded by a number of ex-Nokia employees , demoed the OS at a live show in Finland earlier today, but has uploaded a promotional video to YouTube. MTV 3 Finland has a live demo of...

MeeGo refugee Jolla has demonstrated its new Sailfish OS today, as well as announcing a deal with ST-Ericsson to run the platform on its mobile chips, and a carrier deal with Finland’s DNA. Revealed back in October , Sailfish focuses on “effortless multitasking” with the ability to run multiple...