19 Inches Wide

If you do not know already, Scalix is an email server that is now owned by Xandros. I started using Scalix right after Scalix 11 came out. There was a lot of good features to the email server and now they have raised the bar even more.

Scalix release Active Sync earlier this year so devices that mobile devices, that were able to hook into MS Exchange, are now able to sync contacts, calendar, and emails wirelessly. This was a great leap in Scalix, as the need to use 3rd party software like Funambol was diminished.

Scalix has done it again with connection to Blackberry Enterprise Server. This will allow your Blackberry to work the way it was intended, at least we hope so. I don’t have a Blackberry server to test out, so I’m just going to trust Scalix on this one. I just never saw a need for another server just for a mobile device. It was Blackberry’s answer to getting emails from a MS Exchange server.

Good job Xandros.

This is a follow up to Google C&D @ Cyanogen

Cyanogen has been working with Google team members who manage the Android project. Cyanogen is working to keep everything on the up and up.

I also know that Cyanogen and others spent time trying to make sure that all of the drivers and other things are open to distribution as well. All of this legal stuff has slowed down the development of the CyanogenMod for the G1 (aka adp1 and ION).

You can read the update that Cyanogen posted on his site.
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Google issued a Cease and Desist order to the maker of the CyanogenMod this past week. It would appear that the applications in the Android OS made by Google are not of same source as the OS itself.

Android is a frame work and is completely OSS. The Google applications like Google Maps, Market Place, GMail, and others all belong to Google. These applications are not to be distributed back out with a modified Android OS. They are Google’s applications and that is that.

Part of the problem is that Google has signed deals with phone carriers to put applications like YouTube in the Android OS. With out the code to be able to reproduce such an application, the Android Modders will not be able to have Youtube on their phone, even if they bought the phone with the application already installed.
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