What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets
Tom Krazit, MocoNews, 10/31/2011 At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu Linux, is planning to release a version of their operating system for smartphones and tablets. ZDNet scored an interview with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who discussed plans for mobile Ubuntu [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), WinPhone · Tagged with: Linux
Limo Foundation And Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source Software Platform, Tizen
Mobile Tech New, 9/28/2011 LiMo Foundation™ and the Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen™, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at the Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTML5, Linux
Intel Ditches MeeGo Mobile OS for HTML5-Centric Tizen
Sara Yin, PCMag.com, 9/28/2011 After months of speculation, Intel has officially abandoned the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system it launched in 2010 with Nokia. Instead, Intel will focus on Tizen, an open-source Linux build being developped with Samsung. Like MeeGo, a hybrid of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, Tizen is hosted by the Linux Foundation. [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: HTC, HTML5, Linux, Nokia, Samsung
Google move hints at Chrome for Android
Stephen Shankland, CNet News, 8/23/2011 Android‘s unbranded browser is coming back into the WebKit fold. The software–called simply “Browser” on Android phones and tablets–is based on the open-source browser engine called WebKit. It’s long been disassociated from it, though, and now Google is trying to reunite the projects in a move that could portend the [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Linux
Android: The Smartphone OS with Multiple Faces
Christof Kerkmann, Mobile Tech Today, 5/31/2011 Many manufacturers have decided to make use of the open-source mobile operating system Android, but everything can change from one Android-operated smartphone to the next: interface, functions, options available. The one thing that stays the same: With an Android-enabled smartphone, you’re only a click away from the Internet. Android [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Ericsson, Flash, HTC, Linux, Motorola, Samsung, WiFi
Linux Foundation chief dubs MeeGo ‘unstoppable force’
Rik Myslewski, The Register, 5/23/2011 Nokialess mobile Linux rages on MeeGo, the Linux-based open source operating system born from the February 2010 shotgun marriage of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin and left at the altar when Nokia hooked up with Windows Phone 7, is an “unstoppable force” that speeds device-developers’ time-to-market, and it stands for [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Linux, Nokia, WiFi
Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) coming to Android
Mobiputing.com, 4/16/2011 The Silverlight platform is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, allowing developer to write rich media applications for the web or for computers. And Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight designed to run Silverlight apps on Linux. Now the developers of Moonlight are working to port the project to Android. That means [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Flash, Linux, Motorola
Android violates Linux license, experts claim
Jon Brodkin, Network World, 3/17/2011 Google is already under fire from Oracle, which has gone to court claiming Android violates Java patents Google’s Android mobile operating system’s usage of the Linux kernel may violate open source licensing with a misappropriation of Linux code that could bring about the “collapse of the Android ecosystem,” some intellectual [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Flash, Linux
Nokia jumps from one burning platform to another with Windows Phone 7
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux Today, 2/11/2011 Well, I guess you can take the Microsoft executive out of Microsoft but you can’t take the Microsoft out of the executive. In what will prove Nokia’s final strategic blunder, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft senior executive, announced, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer grinning over his shoulder, [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: HP, Linux, Nokia
NFC Gets More Flexible with “Open NFC” for Android
Sarah Perez, ReadWriteMobile, 2/8/2011 Semiconductor solutions provider Inside Secure has released an open source NFC protocol stack for Android 2.3, code-named “Gingerbread,” which it will provide to chip vendors, smartphone manufacturers, wireless carriers and software developers for free. The stack, called Open NFC, is the first hardware-independent implementation of NFC (near field communication) for Google’s [...]