Articles tagged with: Limo Foundation and Semiconductor

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

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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

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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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