Intel and Nokia combine software to create MeeGo      

Posted: 20 February 2010 by Anton Chuiko   |   Views: 1337   |   Comments 0   |   Print     |   Discuss in forum
altThe world’s biggest chip maker and the world’s major mobile gadget creator have combined operating systems  to generate a single platform for mobiles.

The latest MeeGo platform, revealed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be used to power handsets, netbooks, TVs and in-car pursuit systems.

The open-source software has been shaped by assimilation rudiments of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo software.

The two firms first proclaimed their intention to collaborate in June 2009.

Ian Fogg, an forecaster at Forrester Research, supposed that the merger was a “bold play” and sited MeeGo into a “competitive position with Android, iPhone OS, Google’s Chrome and even desktop software like Ubuntu”.

The technology heavyweights whispered that the software would run on “multiple processor architectures”, implication that it will not be restricted to gadgets just holding Intel chips.

The mobile business tends to favour chips from UK firm Arm, sooner than Intel.
 
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