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LiMo adds browser-based UI kit to arsenal
News The mobile Linux company Movial officially joined the LiMo Foundation on Monday, bringing with it its toolkit for creating browser-based user interfaces. Movial was one of the companies involved in the LiPS Forum, a group that was dedicated to... [05 Aug 2008]
Motorola, Panasonic welcome LiMo Platform
News The new phones, from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic, are the latest to ship with Release 1 of the LiMo Platform, a Linux-based operating system for mobile phones developed by a consortium of wireless carriers, handset makers and others. [04 Aug 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Working alongside NXP Semiconductors, it gained further exposure at the end of January... [07 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News It's been fascinating to me that China has seen a strong uptake of GNU/Linux encouraged by the government even as it also desires to cultivate technologies that can be much more readily controlled. I think they can see the rise of both unmanaged... [30 Jun 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum was formed in November 2005... [27 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Symbian has previously dismissed mobile Linux as being too fragmented in its nature but that was before Google's Open Handset Alliance (OHA) was formed or the LiMo Foundation really got going. Nonetheless, Wood reiterated his company's stance this... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Nokia's primary play in the open-source sphere thus far has been Maemo, the Linux-based operating system that runs on its N800-series tablet devices. Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in the KDE Linux desktop environment and in... [12 Jun 2008]
Ubuntu Linux goes mobile
News A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile internet devices and subnotebooks. The Ubuntu release, expected later this year, will be based on the standard Ubuntu Desktop Edition and reworked for Atom... [04 Jun 2008]
Android delayed? Google says no
News Android software overseen by Google will appear in the first Android phones, but Android software overseen by partner Wind River Systems will appear in later models, expected in the first quarter of 2009, said John Bruggeman, chief marketing... [04 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. He told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We... [15 May 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably. [21 Apr 2008]
Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR
News Adobe said it will port AIR to Linux and then mobile devices. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced it is joining the Linux Foundation. As part of the AIR-on-Linux release, Adobe is making an update to the alpha version... [01 Apr 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News Google's Android may get all the attention, but there's more than one industry consortium working to unify Linux development for mobile phones. There's no shortage of interest among the mobile-phone industry elite in using Linux on their phones. [31 Mar 2008]
'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market
News He said that while the market is currently dominated by Nokia and Symbian, Linux and the "growing stature" of Windows Mobile will put pressure on the establishment. The market for smart phones will grow from around 10 per cent of the total handset... [25 Mar 2008]
Microsoft mobile - king of open world?
News The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to Microsoft's approach to its mobile platform - today it's the most open-functioning platform on the market, says new Linux Australia president Stewart Smith. [20 Mar 2008]
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