Registration for the Maemo Summit 2009 has been opened.

The summit will have free entrance, but registration is required to grant you food, drinks, a maemo.org shirt and a seat. Please register as soon as possible, so we can get a clear picture of how many people are expected.

The registration form also has an option for sponsorship requests. Details about sponsorship will be published later and requests will be evaluated after this. You can always change your registration entry at a later point in time if needed.

The event location details and a list of participants can be found here.

See you all in Amsterdam at Maemo Summit 2009!

Fennec is a particular version of Mozilla, designed for handled devices and internet tablets. With the latest development version, stability has been improved, but the application is still a bit slow and "memory hungry". Speed an memory improvements are scheduled for the next release (Alpha1 - September 9, 2008).

Latest available version, Fennec M7, has the following improvements:

• Initial Add-on Manager support has landed. Tap "+" button in the sidebar to display the Add-on Manager. Use it to install, view and remove add-ons. Use the application menu button to dismiss the panel. Clicking on an add-on XPI in a webpage will also display the manager. The current UX design is not final.
• The top URL bar has been changed to work as designed: The bar will scroll into view at the top of the web content or will float over content otherwise.
• Support for kinetic scrolling has been added to the web content.
• Support for non-modal Password Manager UI was added.
• Some tabbed browsing fixes.
• Some zooming fixes.
• Some stability fixes.

To install it on your tablet, you've to configure Application Manager with the following parameters:

• Web Address: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/
• Distribution: chinook (Note: The chinook builds work on diablo as well.)
• Components: release

If you're not sure or if you want further instructions about installing Fennec, you can find a step by step guide on Mozilla website.

Note: M7 supports the Maemo chinook & diablo distributions.

For the joy of all italian people, the internet tablet Nokia N810 is available in the italian Nokia shop.

You can find it here. The price is 459 €.

N.B: the discount code doesn't work yet.

I was looking in the Italian Nokia official shop, and I noticed that the N800 price was decreased to 259€ instead of 289€

You can verify it on the official website.

Maybe the N810 is coming closer? Who knows ;)