| From PC World: The LiMo Foundation plans to announce new members on Monday, including one that is sharing code for developing mobile Web applications, in what the group says is an indication that its Linux mobile-phone platform is maturing.
LiMo Foundation, which recently subsumed the faltering Linux Phone Standards Forum, said that it has attracted 11 new members and that seven additional commercially available phones are based on the LiMo platform. New members include ZTE, Freescale Semiconductor, Telecom Italia, PacketVideo and VirtualLogix, among others. The types of companies joining the group since its founding shows how the effort is expanding, said Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing for the LiMo Foundation. Initial members of the group were exclusively handset makers and operators, he noted. Since then, the group has attracted interest from semiconductor companies, kernel vendors, handset integrators and middleware software vendors, he said. Such companies broaden the ecosystem involved in the effort, he said. One additional new member, Movial, also announced on Monday that it is open-sourcing technology that developers can use to quickly and easily build user interfaces for browser-based widgets for LiMo phones. The technology, called Browser D-Bus Bridge, allows developers to build souped-up widgets that can incorporate phone capabilities such as instant messaging and audio. View: Article @ Source Site |
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Mobile Linux Group Gets Members, Phones and Software
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