Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii

"Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii.

According to Novell's lead Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza, several applications in Apple's App Store are powered by Mono. This might come as a bit of a surprise to those familiar with Apple's highly restrictive application inclusion policies, because the company strictly prohibits developers from using interpreted languages and third-party runtime environments—a constraint that largely rules out technologies like .NET and Java."

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Accessing IPhone 3G with FreeBSD

This post show you how to make FreeBSD recognize your iPhone as a camera device, so that you can download the photos taken with your iPhone to a FreeBSD host.

OpenMoko, el iPhone Open Source

OpenMoko es un esfuerzo para desarrollar la primera "plataforma móvil Open Source de comunicaciones". Entre sus características destacables están una pantalla táctil similar al del iPhone y un sistema operativo extensible basado en Linux. El lanzamiento de su modelo Neo 1973 estaba previsto para este pasado Marzo, pero el mismo fué retrasado hasta Octubre debido a “bugs críticos de hardware”.

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