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Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog At the Google press conference today, the Google team answered many questions that have been circulating throughout the internet regarding its Android initiative. Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
[November 5, 2007, 22:23]
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]
Siemens Backs Open Source
News Siemens, which recently sold off its mobile unit to Taiwanese firm BenQ, will be involved in the open source group's mobile Linux initiative. Launched earlier this month, the mobile Linux initiative is working on standardising the elements of Linux...
[December 8, 2005, 9:45]
OSDL To Push Linux For Mobiles
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative on Monday to bring the open source operating system to mobile phones. OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative is intended to improve...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
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]
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]
Software Patents Campaigners Honoured
News Mobile Product or Initiative of the Year Open Source Initiative of the Year Winner: T-Mobile (UK) Ltd The judging panel included Bruce Perens, one of the leading lights of the open source community. Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com and...
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]
Google Confirms Its Mobile Linux Plans
News LiMo's president Morgan Gillis told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that Google's initiative was "very complimentary to the LiMo initiative [with a] natural dovetailing in terms of technology focus and industry backing.
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
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]
Optimizing Aurigo Mobile Platform For Intel Personal (Internet) Client Architecture
White Papers Intel is working with select mobile and wireless software companies worldwide on this new initiative. Aurigo and Intel will collaborate to optimize Aurigo's middleware product Aurigo Mobile Platform on the Intel Personal Internet Client...
[May 7, 2005, 0:00]
W3C Plans Push For Mobile Standards Adoption
News Representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will descend on Barcelona on Thursday and Friday to plot a potential "Mobile Web Initiative" that would try to stimulate adoption of and conformance to the standards group's various mobile...
[November 18, 2004, 8:40]
Patent Amnesty For Java Phone Updates
News The OSGI platform is standardised software developed by the OSGI Alliance, named after the Open Services Gateway Initiative, for remotely managing and updating Java software that runs on mobile devices.
[July 26, 2006, 10:25]
It's About Developers And Community...
Talkback And what I can say is that with an open standard such as Android to build upon, Google's mobile initiative is much more likely to survive than if it had gone with a more "standard" approach to entering the phone industry (a la the iPhone).
[November 13, 2007, 9:24]
W3C To Hold London Mobile Standards Event
News The W3C is holding an event in London to promote its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to promote the idea of 'the Web on the move' to UK developers. The Mobile Web Initiative's goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality," said Tim...
[November 3, 2005, 11:15]
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]
CNET 2005 Technology Awards Open For Business
News Mobile Product or Initiative of the Year For 2005 we have added some new categories and tweaked some old ones to acknowledge the changing nature of IT - the most notable addition is the category for Open Source Initiative of the Year.
[June 1, 2005, 17:15]
Trolltech Axes The Greenphone
News Trolltech is now also doing "a lot of work" with another open-source initiative, OpenEmbedded. Greenphone was an innovative programme that responded well to open-source developers and mobile application experimentation.
[October 22, 2007, 12:01]
Mobile Web Users Promised Seamless Mobility
News The W3C launched its Mobile Web Initiative at last year's conference in an effort to make the web more accessible from handheld devices. The mobile Web is a key theme at this year's International World Wide Web Conference, being held in the UK for...
[May 23, 2006, 16:40]
Mobile Linux Group Plans Enterprise Push
News Ovum analyst Adam Leach expressed surprise at the news when he spoke to ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday, saying the largest opportunity for the mobile Linux initiative was generally seen as being in the consumer space.
[May 14, 2008, 13:40]
Second Open Linux Handset Unveiled
News However, Lawson said he hoped FIC's initiative would "also be successful" and joked that it was "great for once for Trolltech not to have to be explaining to everyone about Linux and mobile". At the Open Source in Mobile event in Amsterdam, Sean...
[November 9, 2006, 9:24]
