MWKN Weekly News: 5 March 2012


Enabling Google Talk video calling on Nokia N9

With the release of PR 1.2 comes a very welcome software addition - Google Talk Video Calling. Simply download the application from the store and it integrates with your existing GTalk account. Initiating and receiving calls worked well in your editor's testing.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Enabling Google Talk video calling on Nokia N9
2. Applications
   • Visual updates for gPodder on N9 under development
   • Open source Password Generator for N9 available in Nokia Store
   • Drop Cache for N9 flushes disk cache, preventing data loss and freeing memory
3. Development
   • Mer-based IVI Hardware and UIs
   • Penetration tools for Harmattan
   • Hardware accelerated OpenGL ES on N9 in Java VM
4. Community
   • Intro to Tizen and the Future of the Community: Dawn Foster's FOSDEM talk slides
5. Devices
   • Problems installing N9 apps or updates?

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