GPE trademark rejected March 28, 2008
Posted by Florian in GPE, LinuxToGo, Source.13 comments
Some weeks ago the USPTO rejected the GPE trademark again - finally!
This is great news for the GPE project which really suffered from this situation. The latest entries in the ‘prosecution history’ look nice:
2008-02-27 - Notification Of Final Refusal Emailed
2008-02-27 - Final refusal e-mailed
2008-02-27 - Final Refusal Written
The complete attempt by Mr. France to register GPE as his personal trademark is publicly available at the USPTO website. Some background information can be found in this article. The handhelds.org website still claims several trademarks, but the related project become more and more obsolete. The hh.o bootloader is used for ancient hardware only or replaced by U-Boot and ipkg gets replaced by the much better maintained OPKG. Its a little bit sad that the Opie projects are not that active any more though…
Maemo, S60 and a nice reward March 27, 2008
Posted by Florian in GPE, Linux, Maemo, Source, kernel concepts.7 comments
I made some progress porting the multisync-gui to Maemo. The idea is to offer an easy to use graphical user interface for synchronizing data between the Maemo based tablets and other devices. The OpenSync framework that is used offers several plugins for interfacing data sources already. The most interesting ones are the two SyncML ones (HTTP server and client) and the GPE plugin we can use for the PIM applications on the Maemo device.
Currently it is far from beeing useful, but there are some windows to make screenshots now :-) The first thing I want to archieve is to be able to sync PIM data from a Series60 cellphone.
Speaking about Series60 - I received my Forum Nokia Champion diploma today which came with a great target device for syncing experiments :) Many thanks to Nokia for this nice reward and for the great Forum Nokia Champion program and to Nils who suggested me for it!
