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Mobile Linux - don't get carried away
Leader With Motorola openly talking about Linux as a major component of its future phone plans, and Trolltech selling a mobile phone to ginger up developers, Linux supporters can be forgiven for scratching another notch on their bedposts.
[August 17, 2006, 13:10]
Symbian: Mobile Linux threat 'shrinking'
Blog Earlier this year a Symbian exec told ZDNet.co.uk that mobile Linux was "fragmentation city" and therefore not much of a threat. We see Linux in the devices we compete for shrinking quarter by quarter," he said to astonished murmurs at a press...
[October 16, 2007, 12:48]
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
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. We're looking at two of the very well-known Linux...
[May 14, 2008, 13:43]
Mobile Linux group names itself
News A mobile Linux coalition between several major handset manufacturers and operators has finally been christened. The LiMo Foundation should not be confused with the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, which boasts participants such as manufacturers...
[January 26, 2007, 12:02]
Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
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...
[June 26, 2008, 17:38]
Mobile Linux gains momentum
News Linux is picking up more support in the mobile industry as a challenger to established players such as Symbian and Microsoft. Mobile operating system maker Trolltech claimed on Tuesday that it was kick-starting the mobile Linux market by launching...
[August 16, 2006, 16:20]
Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development. Speaking at the Mobility Summit in London on Monday, Andrew Moran said that mobile Linux was "fragmentation...
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Mobile Linux alliance formed
News Four mobile handset makers are teaming up with two cellular operators to develop a new Linux software platform for mobile devices. Mobile phone makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics, along with mobile...
[June 15, 2006, 13:05]
Opinion: Mobile Linux for Bluetooth - spanner for Microsoft?
News The Calcaria Linux7K project (or Linux CL-PS7110) to develop a mobile version of the operating system will shake a few feathers, not least if it embeds the short range radio frequency connectivity technology Bluetooth into its code.
[May 11, 1999, 8:33]
Linux in the Mobile Space: Today and Tomorrow
White Papers It comes as a natural progression that Linux would also make great strides in the mobile space. The Linux platform has been recognized as a viable Open Source alternative for a variety of computing environments.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Linux everywhere: The Penguin goes mobile
News Its supporters say the benefits of open source software on PC servers and desktops carry over into the mobile device world: Linux is a robust OS that has a developer community of thousands constantly improving it.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps?
Blog Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps? As mobile Linux is carving it’s footprint on the future of mobile application development, the implication for enterprise applications is also paramount. Does mobile Linux lend itself better to the...
[May 15, 2008, 17:15]
Mobile Linux gets kiss of life
Blog Just as a reminder, the LiPS Forum includes such luminaries as France Telecom, Texas Instruments, ARM and Freescale, while rival organisation the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation includes Vodafone, Motorola, Samsung and Panasonic.
[June 11, 2007, 12:49]
Mobile Linux for Psion pressures Win CE
News The project has the support of Psion and according to Psion's technology strategist Andrew Till, "there's a very good chance the mobile version of Linux will get a Bluetooth implementation. Till is convinced that a mobile version of Linux will be...
[April 23, 1999, 15:04]
Trolltech enhances mobile Linux platform
News Trolltech, the mobile Linux company that is to be bought by Nokia, has announced enhancements to its Qtopia platform. Qtopia is a mobile version of Qt, and has already been used in many mobile Linux-based handsets in the Asian market.
[February 11, 2008, 8:42]
Intel, Nokia to develop mobile Linux devices
News Intel and Nokia have announced a long-term relationship that will see the development of Intel-powered, Linux-based handheld mobile-computing devices. Under the deal, the companies will collaborate on several open-source mobile Linux software...
[June 23, 2009, 16:39]
ACCESS Linux Platform: Making Linux Mobile
White Papers The ACCESS Linux Platform leverages the power and advantages of Linux to provide a comprehensive, robust, component-based development environment for mobile devices. As an open source solution, Linux has some distinct advantages in the mobile market.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux
News Ubuntu backer Canonical has pinned down some broad feature lists for its upcoming version of Linux for smaller mobile devices. At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, the company announced particulars of a mobile version of Linux: Ubuntu Mobile and...
[June 7, 2007, 8:30]
LiMo Foundation unveils 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. Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, said in a statement: "The breadth of the...
[February 13, 2008, 7:48]
More heavyweights join mobile Linux group
News Orange and Access have become the latest significant companies to join the LiMo Foundation, a consortium aimed at promoting mobile Linux. LiPS is trying to come up with a set of shared open specifications for mobile Linux, while LiMo is putting...
[February 11, 2008, 9:36]
