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Submission + - Wayfinder open sourced (vodafone.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 15, 2010 @09:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: Once mobile navigation software pioneer Wayfinder Systems AB, was shut down earlier this year. The Swedish software company was acquired in 2009 by the Vodafone Group, and the source code for the Wayfinder products has now been released under a BSD like license. The code base include features previously unreleased, such as using map data from Open Street Map, and running test clients on Linux.

Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year 183

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:17PM from the soon-we-can-expand-crysis-jokes-to-phones dept.

rocket97 writes "On Wednesday, at the Executives Club of Chicago, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly decided to chat about the relatively near future of the mobile landscape as he sees it — which, in part, includes the ultimate demise of mobile computers in favor of highly-capable smartphones. This being his vision, Jha discussed Motorola's plans for a smartphone with a 2GHz processor — by the end of this year. While Jha did not want to divulge any further information, Conceivably Tech cites another anonymous Motorola executive who was a little more chatty, talking up a device intended to 'incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smartphone today.'"

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