LiMo Foundation touts real mobile Linux
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Declares war on mechanical humanoids Mobile World Congress The LiMo foundation delivered a clear snub to Google's Android this week as it announced 18 handsets running its version of Linux at Mobile World Congress this week.â¦
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What draws workers to MobiTV? A hot technology, a cool company and maybe even a big payoff
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Google's Android platform is stirring up the mobile-device industry. Introduced this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the open-source platform based on Linux powered prototypes shown by Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung.
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TechWeb - A La Mobile introduces a mobile Linux stack of software, including drives, middleware, and a suite of Android-based apps.
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The Linux Phone Standards Forum expects to post its first mobile phone specifications today.
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Intel's prototype Mobile Internet Multimedia Device runs on Linux and uses the company's next-gen Menlow chip set.
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The next version of the Palm operating system will be based on Linux, as Access attempts to keep the pioneering software alive.
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PalmSource is not the only mobile device manufacturer with high interests in Linux, NTT DoCoMo has just announced an agreement with MontaVista Software, a developer of Linux software for mobile handsets and other related devices, to acquire majority stake
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A new mobile Linux platform from Azingo joins an increasingly crowded market of Linux phone software.
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Today at 3GSM in Barcelona, LiMo announced the release of a software development kit with the ultimate goal of providing developers with a completely open, Linux-based alternative to other mobile operating systems.
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Forget Windows Mobile 6 -- these open-source handsets might succeed while Linux-on-the-desktop flounders. In Gadget Lab.
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TOKYO &amp; SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)â22 Novembre 2004--MontaVista Software, Inc., a annoncÃ© ce jour que le systÃ¨me d&#39;exploitation MontaVista(R) Linux(R) avait Ã©tÃ© retenu pour Ã©quiper trois des nouveaux tÃ©lÃ©phones mobiles de troisiÃ¨me
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Several more members of the mobile&#160;Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) are switching allegiance to the LiMo Foundation, this time including board and executive committee members, indicating that LiPS is losing steam.Orange and its parent France Telecom, Access and Open-Plug all plan to announce at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that they are joining LiMo. More vendors uniting behind LiMo could help to speed up the rate at which the companies can bring Linux-based devices to market.&quot;We probably will move out of LiPS at some point because it doesn&#39;t make sense to keep two different initiatives on the same topic,&quot; said Yves Christol, director of device development at Orange. Access and Orange Telecom will both join the board of LiMo. The president of LiPS, Haila Wang, works for France Telecom. Access and Open-Plug both have members on the LiPS board and executive committee.Montavista and Purple Labs have recently joined LiMo, though they appear to be staying active in LiPS as well. Trolltech recently quit LiPS in favor of LiMo. More may follow. Orange explained to the other LiPS members why it abandoned ship, &quot;and we believe some of them will share the same vision and will follow us and join LiMo,&quot; Christol said.LiPS appears to be holding out hope that some companies may continue to work with both groups. &quot;To the best of my knowledge, membership in one or any of these [organizations] is not an exclusive commitment,&quot; said Bill Weinberg, general manager of the LiPS Forum.Because the two groups take different approaches, they aren&#39;t in competition and are working toward a common goal, Weinberg said. &quot;Both organizations strive to fight fragmentation by improving interoperability of mobile applications and services across handsets and operators,&quot; he said.Timing appears to be driving many of these companies to gravitate toward LiMo. &quot;LiPS is essentially a standards-based organization,&quot; said Michel Piquemal, general manager for Access in France and director of strategic planning for the company in Europe. Most standards-setting processes take years to complete.LiMo, by contrast, has created a software stack made out of components contributed by various members. The&#160;first release of LiMo is expected in March. While&#160;LiPS has recently released a specification&#160;for some basic phone functions, LiMo plans to announce in Barcelona 18 LiMo phones, including some that are already on the market.&quot;Our approach is extremely fast and direct,&quot; said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo. &quot;The mobile industry, particularly in this phase, is dynamic and fast-moving -- and therefore, in order to make an impression, we have to do something that is practical and produces deliverables and is immediately usable by the industry.&quot;Other companies that planned to announce membership in LiMo on Monday include AMD, Renasas Technology, SoftBank and STMicroelectronics, bringing the number of members in the group to 32.LiPS and LiMo operate in addition to the Open Handset Alliance, the group Google started with its Android mobile software platform. Some companies have membership in both OHA and LiMo. So far, there isn&#39;t any indication that Google might try to align its efforts with LiMo.&quot;LiMo is fully open and we would be very receptive if Google expressed direct interest in working with us,&quot; said Gillis. &quot;LiMo is not in direct discussions with Google about Android joining LiMo.&quot;NOTE:This story was previously posted under embargo. It is now being reposted as it is available for immediate use online.
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NEC Corporation and Panasonic Mobile announced that they have developed a Linux-based software platform for third-generation (3G) mobile phones.
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PalmSource has bought mobile phone software developer China MobileSoft with a view to developing a version of Palm OS Cobalt that will run on Linux in mobile devices.
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Magnification software to help visually impaired people use mobiles has been developed by a Spanish firm.
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(InfoWorld) - The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum planned to release its first mobile phone specifications on Monday, in hopes of encouraging more applications for Linux phones. The specifications, which include a reference model, address book, voice call enabler, text input method application programming interfaces (APIs) and user interface services such as widget sets, were expected to be posted on the LiPS Web site on Monday. The forum, launched in late 2005, is working to standardize a layer of software in Linux phones that will make it easier for developers to create a mobile application once that can operate across many phones. "The reality of the market is it's coincidental that different phones run Linux because an application developer wouldn't be in the position to write something... to work on all of them," said Bill Weinberg, general manager for business development at the LiPS Forum. "The LiPS standard is designed to solve that." The LiPS Forum chose to base the user interface framework on Gnome's GTK user interface toolkit, dealing a blow to Trolltech and showing that the efforts to standardize the mobile Linux industry offer opportunities to some companies while having the potential to shut others out.Â Trolltech offersÂ an application platform and user interface for Linux mobile phones. Weinberg said more companies are using Gnome, however. "Trolltech has done well in the mobile space but we're seeing a trend toward Gnome," he said. Companies that are part of the LiPS Forum including Purple Labs, Access Co., and Open-Plug are all Gnome-based, he said. The forum defined APIs on top of Gnome's GTK, optimizing it for the mobile usage model, he said. The next set of specifications for the forum will deal with functions like instant messaging and allowing users or operators the ability to change the phone's user interface. The third wave of specifications, expected to come out next year, will have more to do with how applications use different phone resources, he said. "These are all things for which there are existing processes but there are too many different ways to do it, so having a set of specifications is important," he said. While a host of global initiatives like the LiPS Forum continue to strive to bring focus to the mobile Linux environment, the U.S. continues to lag behind other regions of the globe in adoption of mobile Linux. China and Japan are the biggest users of Linux phones while the U.S. has a reputation for being "cautious," in part due to the tight control the U.S. operators like to keep on the market, Weinberg said.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!