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Google Says Android's Fine, No Need To Join LiMo
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| Google on Tuesday said its Android mobile operating system is not planning to
| join a growing consortium of mobile Linux companies even though the two sides
| have similar foundations and goals of besting Apple's iPhone.
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| Eric Chu, a group marketing manager with Google's Android group, downplayed
| any talk that his company would be lending its name to the Linux Mobile
| Foundation -- or LiMo -- in an attempt to standardize mobile middleware. LiMo
| said on Monday that it has signed 11 new member companies in recent weeks and
| said that the number of mobile devices running the LiMo OS now totals 21.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209903360
http://tinyurl.com/55qkkq
LiMo-ready mobile stack firms tidy up partnerships
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| Two LiMo-member mobile phone stack firms followed through on partnership
| deals in separate announcements this week. Purple Labs announced a joint
| testing commitment with Openwave Systems, and Access announced it had
| concluded a joint development agreement on FOMA phones with NTT DoCoMo.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7602118344.html?kc=rss
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006
Recent:
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
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| McCabe said that the impending release of Google Android would provide
| a "wonderful catalyst" for the breakdown of proprietary software and hardware
| bundles from telcos. Other open source handset software includes the recent
| release of mobile Ubuntu.
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http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39253486,00.htm
What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
|
| [...]
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| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
|
| [...]
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| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance — which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide — adds to the momentum.
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| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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