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Dow Jones is reporting that Softbank has announced that they are going to adopt a common mobile operating system for their handsets. Following NTT DoCoMo’s lead, the other Asian carrier will be using what it calls a “Portable Open Platform Initiative” for their future handset. The software development side of the mobile phone industry accounts for some of the heaviest research and development costs. So, by using a common mobile operating system across all of Softbank’s offerings will help speed up and ease development of new handsets and applications.
via: cellularnews
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
