Microsoft backs mobile phone standards
News The Open Mobile Alliance, unveiled on Wednesday, was created by the merger of two other groups promoting standard ways for cell phones to exchange data such as emails: the Open Mobile Architecture initiative, created by Nokia last year, and the...
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
Texas Instruments backs open mobile standards
News The Open Mobile Architecture Initiative is an attempt to ensure that GPRS and 3G handsets will all offer certain functionality, including Java support and multimedia messaging. Chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) has come out in favour of an...
[November 15, 2001, 16:48]
Comdex 2001: Nokia touts new phone standards group
News The alliance, which Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila called the "open mobile architecture initiative" during his keynote address on Monday at the Comdex Fall 2001 trade show, includes many major phone makers and carriers that offer mobile phone...
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Microsoft to mobile phone group: You need us
News Nokia's chief executive Jorma Ollila, who announced the "Open Mobile Architecture Initiative" at Comdex on Monday, told reporters that Microsoft, AOL Time Warner and Palm would all be welcome to join, even though none had been invited to the party.
[November 14, 2001, 17:22]
ARM opens resource centre for Android devs
News Coombs said smartbooks would really "kick off" in the first half of 2010, to coincide with work emanating from Adobe's Open Screen Project, an initiative to have Flash-based rich media applications running across a variety of devices and platforms.
[November 17, 2009, 11:03]
Vodafone to open cross-platform app store
News The initiative was set up by Vodafone, China Mobile and Japan's Softbank in April last year to develop a common global development platform. The web applications, which will take the form of widgets, will work across different mobile platforms due...
[May 12, 2009, 17:36]
ARM takes on Intel with Adobe partnership
News According to the statement, the partnership has grown out of Adobe's Open Screen Project, the company's industry-wide initiative to make it easier to browse the web on devices of a variety of types and sizes.
[November 17, 2008, 4:02]
Trolltech axes the Greenphone
News Trolltech is now also doing "a lot of work" with another open-source initiative, OpenEmbedded. Bialer said the two-year-old architecture of the Greenphone was no longer adequate, so Trolltech would like to target "more modern 3G phones".
[October 22, 2007, 12:01]
Juniper pieces together new network push
News The company's Cloud-Ready Data Center initiative includes five modules of guidelines aimed at securing traffic inside and outside the cloud-ready datacentre. Cisco in March unveiled its push to change the face of datacentres with its 'unified...
[October 29, 2009, 16:25]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News Two high-profile movements to harness the power of the global network of computers will start pooling their resources next week as academia's "grid" computing initiative meets the Web services trend that's sweeping business computing.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Mobile phone alliance marches ahead
News The Open Mobile Alliance itself was created by the merger of two other groups promoting standard ways for mobile phones to exchange data such as emails: the Open Mobile Architecture initiative, created by Nokia last year, and the more established...
[November 21, 2002, 10:24]
3G tech gets cheaper as standardisation takes hold
News Sean Lavey, programme manager at IDC, said organisations such as the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) are helping 3G equipment vendors create standardised products which in turn are helping push costs down.
[June 2, 2004, 17:35]
Verizon's CTO looks to a 4G future
News ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, sat down with Lynch after his speech to get more details on the network's launch and to find out what's happening with Verizon's Open Development Initiative. Verizon announced the Open Device Initiative in...
[February 23, 2009, 12:45]
JavaOne: Best defence against Microsoft
News Sun's chief rival is pushing its Microsoft .Net initiative for Web services. Business use of the Internet now parallels in some ways the early development of the Web, and Sun will issue "a call to action to ensure [Web services] be done in an open...
[June 4, 2001, 14:11]
Cisco teams up with Big Blue over network security
News Cisco's NAC initiative is part of a broader effort to help protect networks from worms and viruses before they propagate throughout the network. A consortium of vendors called the Trusted Computing Group is already working on an architecture that...
[October 15, 2004, 11:55]
BEA: 'The best is yet to come'
News From our perspective, we're still at a size at which we can build something new, like (mobile-technology initiative) Alchemy and get it to market. You open the box, and you're ready to go and implement a services-oriented architecture application.
[June 2, 2004, 11:45]
