Break a Leg, Android
"You don't have to be a Google booster to realize the Tuesday launch of the Internet king's Android platform may alter the mobile landscape. High on the list of those likely to be affected are the LiMo Foundation, a competing alliance of mobile companies with its own open-source mobile operating system, and Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox browser. Mozilla, though a close Google partner, is not involved in Android and harbors its own mobile ambitions for Firefox." Posted on 24th September 2008
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Google Inc. launched Google ChromeTM, a new open source browser intended to create a better web experience for users around the world. Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google products.In the early days of the Internet, web pages were frequently little more than text. But today the web has evolved into a powerful platform that enables users to collaborate with friends and colleagues through email and other web applications, edit documents, watch videos, ... 
Openmoko, maker of open source mobile products, today announced that it has taken another step in opening its mobile platform to the development community by announcing it will publish the schematics for the Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner mobile phones. Openmoko broke with traditional mobile phone manufacturers by shipping its Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner mobile phones with a free and open source (FOSS) operating system and open applications, enabling developers to take the functionality of the phone well beyond the limited applications that commercial mobile phones can handle. The Neo FreeRunner went on sale July ... 
The Mobile Internet Devices (MID) market is likely to be the first real example of a greenfield situation in which all mobile operating systems start on the same equal footing, without the baggage of previous histories such as existed in the smartphone market. The Linux OS, in the form of Moblin, LiMo and Maemo, looks ready to take the lion’s share of the MID market and is set to capture unit volumes of 50 millions units per annum in 2013.ABI Research vice president and research director Stuart Carlaw says, “Maemo is ... 
LiMo Foundation™, the global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, unveiled today another wave of handsets using the LiMo Platform™. The seven new devices from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications offer consumers around the globe a host of applications and services that enhance the mobile experience.“The combination of LiMo’s transparent governance model, balanced development model and extensive mobile industry heritage sets it apart and has garnered strong industry support and engagement,†said Morgan Gillis, executive director, LiMo Foundation. “This next wave of LiMo handsets points to ... 
MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced that its Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 5.0 has registered compliance with the Linux Foundation’s Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 specification, has earned Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.0 certification, and is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) logo certified. This achievement makes MontaVista the only Linux distribution in the world to comply with the three key requirements issued by the industry’s major standards bodies, demonstrating that MontaVista Linux CGE interoperates with industry software and hardware, and meets the rigorous demands of ... 
"The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said." 
Mobile Linux is well poised to take on the surging smartphone market according to "Mobile Linux: Google and Motorola Hold the Short-Term Keys to Success," from the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies Service.Mobile Linux offers an attractive package in terms of customization, cost, developer community, time to market, security and multi-chipset support to handset manufacturers and mobile operators, according to industry analysts Strategy Analytics. This report evaluates the current status of the mobile Linux market and assesses the impact of recent initiatives by industry players in the mobile Linux arena.
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IDG World Expo Corp has announced a new, must see show floor attraction at this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo -- the Linux Garage. The Linux Garage will showcase the latest and coolest gadgets based on embedded Linux, from PDAs and hand-held computers, to mobile phones and audio/video entertainment devices. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is scheduled to take place August 4-7, 2008 at the Moscone Center.Linux is now a part of phones, cars, satellite TV, multimedia, and a multitude of other products used on a daily basis. As embedded Linux continues to grow, the Linux Garage at LinuxWorld will serve as the ... 
The market for smartphones will grow from around 10% of the total handset market in 2007 to 31% of the market in 2013. A new study from ABI Research projects this meteoric growth to be a product of a number of complex factors including carriers' drives to grow data revenues from advanced services and the general trend to pushing "smart" operating systems down into middle tier devices.ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw comments, "Smart operating systems are continually being optimized to run on processors with lower performance. There is a ... 
AOL announced the AOL Open Mobile Platform, which it plans to make available to developers this summer. The new open platform will help stimulate innovation by providing developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across all major mobile device platforms and operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. As a result, developers will be able to create applications for a wide variety of mobile devices.The AOL Open Mobile Platform is based on proven technology acquired by AOL that has been deployed across more ... 
ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, will be an exhibitor again this year at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008 (formerly 3GSM World Congress), the mobile industry's biggest event, which is taking place February 11-14 in Barcelona, Spain. This year's event marks the seventh time that ACCESS will be present at the Mobile World Congress.The ACCESS theme this year is "Open Up Your World." ACCESS products that anticipate the latest trends in the mobile industry will be on display, notably ACCESS Linux Platform(TM), the Company's next-generation mobile ... 
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, jointly announced today the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a transfer price below US$100. The new Purple Magic phone serves as a reference design for phone manufacturers creating entry-level 3G handsets, including those targeting mobile markets such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.According to the GSA mobile industry trade group, there are now 197 commercial 3G/WCDMA ... 
Gizmo5 Technologies announces Gizmo5 mobile and desktop software is now connected with the MySpace IM network. For the first time ever, MySpace users on any mobile network can receive MySpace alerts, see who's online and send/receive messages with their MySpace buddies directly from their mobile phone or desktop using Gizmo5.Through this new feature, users can be alerted on their mobile phone to MySpace activity in the same manner that MySpace IM alerts work on the desktop. There is no charge for this service and only a data connection on the user's ... 
Mobile Linux company Azingo, formerly Celunite, today announced Azingo Mobile, a comprehensive suite of open mobile software and services designed to help companies deliver web 2.0 applications, music, video, vivid graphics and more to a wide range of mobile phones. Leveraging the economies of open source innovations and based on LiMo and its ecosystem Azingo Mobile provides a less costly and more flexible platform for designing and deploying mobile devices. The platform will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, (Azingo booth 2.1D57 and LiMo booth 8B135), Feb ... 
a la Mobile announced the support of Google Android with the industry's first demonstration of applications based on the open source Android application framework, running on HTC's Qtek 9090 advanced smartphone. The demonstrated applications, some with enhanced graphical user interface (GUI) developed by a la Mobile, include: browser, phone dialer, audio player, maps, camera, games, calendar, contacts manager, calculator, tasks manager and notes.Dispelling the Mystery of Android
"While mobile Linux has made steady progress in the industry since 2006, Google's advocacy with the unveiling of the Android framework further substantiates the position of Linux as a ... 
Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, announced today that it has joined the LiMo Foundation and will support the organisation's mission to develop a world-class Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. In joining the LiMo Foundation as an Associate member, Purple Labs becomes the first commercial Linux platform for feature phones in the consortium, thereby extending the LiMo initiative to mass-market mobile handsets.Founded by industry leaders Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone, the LiMo Foundation aims to create a rich ecosystem based on Linux, which will ... 
"Quite frankly, Linux makes much more sense in a smartphone than it makes in a really low-end product," Torvalds said." 
ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., and ESTEEMO Co., Ltd. under which the companies will study the use of ACCESS Linux Platform(TM) as the basis for developing a shared Linux platform for mobile phones and an operator pack for NTT DoCoMo.In a market characterized by frequent model changes and fast time-to-market requirements, high-performance handsets demand increasingly complex software. ACCESS intends to help handset makers meet these ... 
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum today announced completion of the LiPS Release 1.0 specifications, fulfilling the commitment announced in June of this year. With this release, LiPS enables mobile industry players to achieve basic interoperability for applications and services deployed on Linux-based phones, benefiting Linux-based software stack suppliers, mobile device OEMs and regional and global telecom operators. These specifications include the LiPS Reference Model, Telephony, Messaging, Calendaring and Scheduling, Presence, User Interface Services, Address Book and Voice Call Enablers APIs.In contrast to recent announcements from other bodies promoting Linux-based mobile software, LiPS ...