Articles tagged with: Limo Foundation
Mobile Linux Smarphone Specifications Updated
The Mobile Linux handset trade group, LiMo Foundation has announced the completion of specifications for the second release of the LiMo Platform (R2). R2 will be at the heart of next-generation LiMo handsets that will reach market starting Q4 2009. more
Related Tags: mobile-linux, open-source, linux, security
Mobile Linux Group Selects Wind River As Systems Integrator
The Mobile Linux organisation, the LiMo Foundation has selected Wind River as the systems integrator to deliver the common infrastructure, tools, testing and integration services for the LiMo platform. A Board member of LiMo Foundation, Wind River will now be LiMo's chosen systems integrator providing technology and services to combine, harden and validate code contributions of LiMo members through a Common Working Environment (CWE). more
Related Tags: wind, mobile-linux, open-source, linux, testing
Mobile Operators Confirm Commitment to Mobile Linux Based Phones
Mobile Linux group, the LiMo Foundation has announced a commitment from six major operator members to specify and deliver mobile phones using LiMo Platform implementations in 2009. more
Related Tags: orange, vodafone, docomo, verizon-wireless, verizon, telefonica, telecom-italia, mobile-linux, open-source, linux
Azingo Wins Vodafone Contract for Mobile Linux Phone Applications
Vodafone has awarded a contract to mobile OS firm, Azingo to develop applications for mobile phones based on the Linux Operating System. Both Azingo and Vodafone are core members of the LiMo Foundation, a consortium working on a handset software platform based upon Mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. more
Related Tags: edge, vodafone, location-based-services, mobile-linux, open-source, linux, widgets, adobe, flash
Private Equity Group Buys Sagem Mobile - Folds Assets into Purple Labs
Mobile phone software developer, Purple Labs is to acquire the mobile applications suite and software engineering team of Sagem Mobiles. The asset sale to Purple Labs is linked to an announcement by SAFRAN, a French technology group, that it is selling its Sagem Mobiles business unit to the private equity group, Sofinnova Partners - which is also an investor in Purple Labs. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, semiconductor, ericsson, edge, nxp, sony, linux, France
Mobile Linux Trade Bodies Agree to Merge
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced that its activities and membership are to be folded into follow Mobile Linux forum, the LiMo Foundation from the end of this month. In a joint statement, they said that this pooling of efforts and resources reflects the industry-wide trend towards unification of Linux-based mobile telephony platforms and will serve to accelerate the emergence of common mobile Linux specifications and implementations. more
Related Tags: orange, semiconductor, huawei, texas, france-telecom, nxp, mobile-linux, linux, chipset
Azingo Demonstrates Mobile Linux Solution on TI's OMAP Platform
Mobile Linux developer, Azingo is demonstrating its Azingo Mobile Linux platform on the Texas Instruments OMAP platform at Computex in Taiwan. The two companies are collaborating to provide mobile phone and internet device manufacturers with a cost-effective Linux platform based on LiMo Foundation software. That platform - featuring touch screen Internet browsing, web widget applications, audio, video and personalized user applications - will be demonstrated on a device featuring a TI OMAP3430 application processor. more
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Firefox Mobile Browser Developers Joins Mobile Linux Group
The mobile Linux OS trade group, LiMo Foundation has announced the addition of Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg, Mozilla (the group behind the Firefox web browser), Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless as new member companies. Expanding LiMoÃ's membership to 40 since the foundationÃ's launch in January 2007, these companies join with existing LiMo members to collaborate on the LiMo Platform - a Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. more
Related Tags: infineon-technologies, abi-research, docomo, verizon-wireless, verizon, infineon, sk-telecom, mobile-linux, operating-system, linux
Nearly 20% of Mid- and High-End Mobile Devices Will Run a Linux Operating System by 2013
Linux, which has been much maligned by Symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated. The growing momentum behind the LiMo Foundation initiative, as well as the marketing boost that has been realized from the entry of GoogleÃ's Android solution has been further enhanced by NokiaÃ's support of the Maemo solution and its purchase of Trolltech. more
Related Tags: android, google, microsoft, abi-research, symbian, open-source, operating-system, maemo, linux
Reference Design for Linux Mobile Phones Released
The Linux mobile phone group, the LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability of LiMo Platform Release 1. The LiMo Platform - leveraging standards and open-source projects - is a modular, plug-in, hardware-independent architecture built around an open operating system, with a secure run-time environment for support of downloaded applications. All of the enabling technology within Release 1 - created by the foundationÃ's Founder members - has now been commercially deployed and proven within multiple handsets enjoyed by consumers today, as well as in several reference and pilot devices that will be on the market later this year. more
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