Limo Foundation
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Is there life in Google’s Android?
Insight Last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, software, LiMo Foundation, brand name, Apple iPhone, U.S.
Nokia and the battle for open source’s soul
Insight news analysis The formation of the Symbian Foundation is good news for the mobile industry but the open source community could see some ethical compromises.
Tags: Symbian, Open source, Mobile, Google Inc., Symbian Inc., software, LiMo Foundation, SIM card, Linux, Nokia Corp.
Mobile Linux group gets a name
News Six months after setting up, an alliance including Motorola and Vodafone has become the LiMo Foundation.
Tags: Cellular phones, Handhelds, Linux
LiMo Foundation adds new handsets, members
News Motorola, Panasonic, and NEC have new phones out running the LiMo Foundation's Linux-based operating system, and 11 new companies have jumped onboard.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, Open source, Linux, Google Inc., Japan, Panasonic, phone, software, LiMo Foundation
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
News Openwave sells those parts of its business to LiMo member Purple Labs, which plans to use the mobile Internet technologies in its Linux platform.
Tags: Web browsers, Cellular phones, Linux, Open source, Openwave Systems, Web Browser, Google Inc., Messaging, phone, software
Symbian deal a catalyst for smartphone competition
News news analysis World's leading smartphone operating system will evolve into an open source consortium to meet challenges posed by upstarts determined to carve out their own niche.
Tags: Symbian, Open source, Mobile, Google Inc., Smart Phone, operating system, Symbian Inc., Internet Connection, phone, software
Xandros expands mobile device push
News A deal with Viyya Technologies aims to take advantage of the growing profile of Linux on mobile devices.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Notebooks and tablets, Browser, Xandros, Mobile, Mobile Internet Device, Internet Device, Mobile Device, software company, operating system
Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized
News Version 3.0 of the mobile Linux platform has been unveiled, while a mini version has been made available for lower-end phones and emerging markets.
Tags: Linux, Mobile, Smart Phone, Mobile Linux, operating system, phone, LiMo Foundation, Microsoft Access, Internet, handset
Palm still waiting for new products to end losses
News Palm's fourth fiscal quarter was just like the last few: sales of the Centro are taking off, but Palm's making little if any money on the sale of each US$99 smartphone.
Tags: PalmOS compatibles, PalmOS, Earning reports/forecasts, Financial, Palm Inc., Mobile, Google Inc., Smart Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, software
Sun open sources mobile Java UI toolkit
News The firm has released the code for its lightweight user interface toolkit under a modified GPLv2 license, in what it says was response to developer demand.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Java, Open source, Toolkit, Mobile, Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., phone
Nokia's Linux OS to support 3G
News Maemo 5, an upcoming version of the operating system used in Nokia's N800-series Internet tablets, will support cellular connectivity for the first time.
Tags: Linux, 3G (Third Generation), Smart phones, Mobile, Google Inc., Open Source, operating system, software, 3G, processor
Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
News Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
Tags: Linux, Mobile/Wireless, Open source, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, Mobile Linux, intellectual property, phone, LiMo Foundation
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Announcing new members, including Mozilla and Verizon, the LiMo Foundation claims to be in talks with two major enterprise Linux-distribution companies.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Linux, Browser, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile Linux, Mozilla Corp., intellectual property, enterprise computing, software
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News Symbian's research chief warns there will be multiple versions of the search giant's mobile stack, but Google says there will be little motivation to make versions incompatible.
Tags: Symbian, Linux, Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile, Google Inc., Open Source, Fragmentation, intellectual property, phone
LiMo launches mobile Linux handsets
News The LiMo Foundation launched its first mobile handsets, which run on the Linux-based Mobile LiMo Platform, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday.
Tags: Linux, Cellular phones
