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LiPS Forum releases mobile Linux specs
News The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has released its first complete set of specifications for mobile Linux. Comprising members such as France Telecom, Texas Instruments, ARM and Freescale, the LiPS Forum is only one of several major industry...
[December 12, 2007, 12:00]
Mobile Linux gets kiss of life
Blog The LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum is releasing its first API set for applications on Linux mobiles today. Just as a reminder, the LiPS Forum includes such luminaries as France Telecom, Texas Instruments, ARM and Freescale, while rival...
[June 11, 2007, 12:49]
Texas Instruments backs mobile Linux
News Along with Telecom Italia and Chinese telecoms equipment giant ZTE, TI joined the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum on Monday. The LiPS Forum, which aims to create standards for open source phones, was launched in November 2005.
[July 19, 2006, 11:10]
Key mobile Linux platform out in March
News Its main rival at the moment is the LiPS Forum, which is focused on creating shared, open specifications. The LiPS Forum released its first set of specifications in December of last year. Asked whether LiMo had been beaten to the punch by the LiPS...
[February 4, 2008, 10:37]
More heavyweights join mobile Linux group
News Access and France Telecom (Orange's owner) are both members of the LiPS Forum, which is in some ways a rival to the LiMo Foundation. The LiPS Forum] has been a key model in creating this momentum in the mobile Linux [industry] two, three years ago...
[February 11, 2008, 9:36]
Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News The LiMo Foundation includes members such as Vodafone, Motorola and Samsung, while the LiPS Forum counts on the support of Texas Instruments, France Telecom and Trolltech. The LiPS Forum has also just released its first API set to help develop...
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
News The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum was formed in November 2005, around seven months before the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation came together. The two groups were in many ways complementary: LiPS wanted to create a formal standard for mobile...
[June 26, 2008, 17:38]
Trolltech switches sides in mobile Linux war
News The two largest alliances — although Google's recently announced Open Handset Alliance may prove a worthy adversary to both — are the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum and the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation.
[January 8, 2008, 12:08]
PalmSource and Orange team up for mobile Linux standards
News The Linux Phone Standard (Lips) Forum wants to standardise Linux interfaces so that higher-level software won't have to be customised for each variation of the open source operating system appearing in different mobile phone models.
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Mobile Linux group names itself
News The LiMo Foundation should not be confused with the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, which boasts participants such as manufacturers Texas Instruments, ZTE and Freescale, operators France Telecom (the owners of Orange), Telecom Italia and...
[January 26, 2007, 12:02]
Movial brings browser-based UI kit to LiMo
News Movial was one of the companies involved in the LiPS Forum, a group that was dedicated to developing mobile Linux standards. However, since LiPS decided to fold its activities into the more commercially minded LiMo Foundation — an industry group...
[August 4, 2008, 8:09]
ARM spearheads mobile Linux group
News The new organisation is spearheaded by the British processor manufacturer ARM, and its formation adds to a list of similar associations, including the LiPS Forum, the LiMo Foundation and the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI).
[October 4, 2007, 15:20]
Access launches mobile Linux push
News Like Access, these companies are all members of the Linux Phone Standard (LiPS) Forum. LiPS Forum president Haila Wang said on Monday that Access' moves showed dedication to the cause of mobile Linux.
[February 12, 2007, 14:00]
Second open Linux phone on sale
News Mobile Linux is slowly gaining traction, with two industry groups — the LiMo Foundation and the LiPS Forum — banding together operators and manufacturers to organise standards. Another fully open source-based phone went on sale on Monday, offering...
[July 9, 2007, 12:08]
LiMo Foundation unveils mobile Linux handsets
News The LiMo Foundation is one of several industry consortia seeking to create a standardised approach to Linux-based handsets, with rivals including the LiPS Forum and the Google-led Open Handset Alliance, which plans to release Android.
[February 13, 2008, 7:48]
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
News Similarly, Bill Weinberg, the general manager of another mobile Linux alliance, the LiPS Forum, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that "the way the Apache licence governs code, it will be very easy for handset manufacturers and operators and other...
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can't change your seat -- oh, to have the cup of release dashed from my lips so cruelly! Next week sees yet another Intel Developer Forum in the hipster's paradise of San Francisco. I'll be popping over for the duration, keen to ask interesting...
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Linux 2.4 kernel almost ready
News But read my lips: no more recounts," Torvalds added. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. There was no Linux 2.4 kernel under testers' Christmas trees in 2000. Linus Torvalds and the other keepers of the Linux kernel...
[January 3, 2001, 7:41]
Intel to unveil nanotech plans
News Loose lips sink chips Sunlin Chou, senior vice president of the technology and manufacturing group at Intel, will discuss the company's plans for nanotechnology, or the science of making chips with elements that measure less than 100 nanometres...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
UK regulator Oftel's role examined
News With director general David Edmonds becoming increasingly apologetic about the watchdog's role in the Internet industry, the question on industry's lips appears to be -- is it time to relegate the regulator?
[September 27, 2000, 15:14]
