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Doubts Raised Over Android Fragmentation
News Other delegates at Handsets World were generally enthusiastic about Android's potential, in many cases saying they had higher hopes for Android than for the LiMo Foundation's nascent platform. Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up...
[June 12, 2008, 15:05]
Symbian Vs Android: How They Square Up
News With the announcement on Tuesday of the formation of the Symbian Foundation, the forces of mobile open source appear to be congregating into two major camps: the Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, which is developing Google's...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
Symbian Foundation Launch: What Members Said
News Kai Öistämö, Nokia's head of devices, refused to give Google the satisfaction of saying the Symbian Foundation was a response to the search giant's much-hyped Android mobile software platform. The Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Symbian, UIQ, S60 To Form Open-source Android Killer
News Symbian Foundation members that are also involved in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — the organisation developing the Google-led Android platform — include LG, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
[June 24, 2008, 11:02]
Android Maker Talks Mashups And Mobiles
News Why did you pick Linux as the foundation for Android? Will Java be the primary foundation for software running Android? After years of rumours of a Google phone, the search giant finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and...
[November 22, 2007, 11:51]
Google To Unveil 'Android' Mobile-phone Software
News The search giant is likely to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil the project, which is expected to incorporate Linux software into a mobile platform code-named Android that is designed to run on phones, according to sources familiar with...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
Nokia And The Battle For Open Source's Soul
Leader However, many operators will be wary of Google's explicit dominance of Android, as Google has its own business models and its own agenda. The most serious rival to the SF is the OHA's Android, which theoretically has a significant lead in the race...
[June 24, 2008, 17:24]
First Symbian Foundation Handsets Due In 2010
News The move is seen as a major strike against Google and its nascent Android platform. This timeline puts the SF somewhat behind the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which is the industry group that Google set up to develop Android.
[June 24, 2008, 17:08]
Gphone Vs IPhone: The Security Debate
News Many of the companies in the LiMo Foundation have also become members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which Google has formed to develop and promote Android. Google's long-anticipated mobile plans finally emerged this week in the form of...
[November 8, 2007, 15:27]
LiMo Foundation Gets More Handsets, Members
News These are interesting times for the LiMo Foundation, coming off market leader Symbian's decision to embrace an open-source model and the expected debut later this year of Google's Android software. Many of the members of the LiMo Foundation are...
[August 4, 2008, 8:49]
Google Confirms Its Mobile Linux Plans
News Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. According to a statement released by Google on Monday, Android incorporates an "operating system, middleware [the software that sits between the...
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
Movial Brings Browser-based UI Kit To LiMo
News He suggested that this sort of approach was more attractive to operators than that offered by the Google-led Android platform, because Google has its own services to offer. The mobile Linux company Movial officially joined the LiMo Foundation on...
[August 4, 2008, 8:09]
Mobile Linux Group Plans Enterprise Push
News Leach added that LiMo's latest announcements reflected badly on its main competitor, the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which intends to bring out the Android stack later this year. I think it's been a bit of a poor showing [for Android...
[May 14, 2008, 13:43]
Google Chrome - An Open Source Browser, And More...
Blog It also uses the open source Webkit rendering engine, which it shares with Android, and a new virtual-machine based Javascript compiler from a Danish group called V8. As excited as we are at building Google Chrome, it's important to allow ALL...
[September 1, 2008, 18:44]
Mobile Linux Standards Forum Gives Up
News The outcome of work by organisations like LiMo, Android and others may end up creating a standard that is more formalised after the fact. Android is not so much a Linux [platform] but more of a Java-based [platform].
[June 26, 2008, 17:38]
Android: The Vehicle That Shall Take Us To The Virtual Parallel Universe
Talkback Google’s open source Android software and the mobile platform is the foundation for the evolution of all facets of future lifestyles. Thank you for writing this piece and adding support to my prediction that Google has a long term business plan of...
[November 9, 2007, 16:33]
Sprint's Android Lead Retracts Critical Comments
News Orion also conceded that Android code was currently "nascent and thin in relative capabilities", making it difficult to compare it to rival mobile platforms such as those provided by the LiMo Foundation and Nokia's Series 60.
[July 18, 2008, 14:34]
Nokia's Linux OS To Support 3G
News Aside from the N800-series and Maemo, Nokia has thus far stayed out of the mobile Linux battle that is brewing between Google's Android platform, the future open-source Symbian and the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux stack.
[September 18, 2008, 15:42]
Adobe Opens Parts Of Flash In Mobile Push
News Java powers many of today's mobile programs, and Java and Linux form the foundation for Google's upcoming Android platform. Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by...
[May 1, 2008, 15:38]
Sun Open-sources Mobile Java UI Toolkit
News Meanwhile, Symbian is going open source and Google's Android platform — which is effectively Java-based — could still appear as soon as this year. Earlier in August, Movial joined the LiMo Foundation, bringing with it a toolkit for creating browser...
[August 15, 2008, 12:49]
