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We are proud to announce the first stable release of a new port of WebKit based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

WebKit, the browser rendering engine that is used in millions of devices, is quickly becoming the de facto standard of the mobile world and we're excited to be working on improving it and contributing back.

As the company grows we required more space to fit our teams and thus we moved to a new office space at Av. Marechal Rondon 1900, Campinas - SP. It is an exclusive 4-floor building, with nice network infrastructure and an amazing relax area so our developers can take a break.
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As part of a very prolific relationship with Canonical last year, ProFUSION was involved in adapting the Ubuntu user experience to less powerful devices, such as the current crop of smartbooks that is about to hit the international markets soon.

One of the main areas focused was the development of a launcher interface that had all the visual effects that users have come to expect in the last years while still being able to run on non-3d accelerated devices. If there was ever a match made in heaven, then using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for this endeavor would have to be it. The netbook-launcher-efl project, as it has been named, is already available and can be installed and tested right now on Ubuntu Lucid.

ProFUSION has always been supportive and committed to contribute to upstream projects which are the base for our products and services. Recently as part of the work to enable interesting in-car infotainment systems development (thinking of GENIVI compliant services and products) our connectivity team helped to develop and integrate the headset role implementation of the Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile into the whole Linux stack. This should allow use cases such as car kits communicating and controlling mobile phones in the car.

In cooperation with Intel, Nokia and other community developers the Hands-Free Profile code has been developed, tested and integrated into BlueZ, oFono and PulseAudio components of the Linux stack. More technical details and a demo can be seen on João Paulo and Gustavo Padovan blogs.

As announced on previous story, Memphis is being tested with couple of hardware configurations to ensure it works great on all of them. In this new video Mariana shows it running on real hardware Nokia Internet Tablet N810. The video is interleaved with PC screen captures to show how it looks on powerful machine and on not so powerful embedded system:

More videos should come to show Memphis on OpenMoko GTA02, Freescale iMX and more. Stay tuned.

ProFUSION is proud to publish its first demo of "Memphis", its in car entertainment system.

Named after the city of Elvis Presley, this entertainment system is based on the open source stack Canola2, bringing a whole new experience focused on cars with touchscreen displays from 4" to 7".

Canola2, the best rated media center application for Maemo was just released as Free Software. ProFUSION has been working together with INdT on the development of Canola2, and the first non-beta release is just around the corner, with lots of the improvements that we've been making here.

With source code available, there has been increasing interest by people to not only try it but also find out how it works. There is already work on packaging it for Ubuntu and other distributions, but those who wish to develop for Canola will probably want to build it themselves. Below there is some information that might help with that. The ProFUSION team has really enjoyed working on this project and expects the community will enjoy being part of it as well.

PyCon US, the annual US Python community conference announced the accepted talks for 2009 and it includes a talk by ProFUSION's owner and software architect Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri.

When we created the company we had no profusion.com or profusion.com.br available. The former is in use by a dead search engine that used to work around 98-98. The latter was registered but not in use and became available these days and we acquired it!

So now you can reach us at http://profusion.mobi or http://profusion.com.br. We really like the .mobi: it's fancy, different and reflects ProFUSION desire to target mobile devices, so we'll keep it and use as our primary domain name. But since some people have problems to remember non-commercial domains and we had problems with bad configured firewalls blocking .mobi, we'll have .com.br as fallback.

After Carsten "The Rasterman" Haitzler announced his Illume was running on phones and gadgets, including the Palm Treo-650 and OpenMoko Freeruner, we decided to give it a try on Freescale iMX31 and the results were good enough to post a video about it: