Motorola has seen better days. Since the mobile-pioneer led the world as the largest maker of cellphones in the early 1990’s, Motorola has seen its market share, profits and influence sliding by the day. Motorola has been bleeding from its mobile phone division for too long – the company recently posted 2008 operating losses of…
GMV Bringing BlackBerry Service to Linux-Based Enterprises
RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server has traditionally run on Novell Groupwise and Microsoft Exchange servers, which covers the vast majority of companies out there, but there’s still a segment running Linux that hasn’t gotten any love whatsoever. Luckily, Spanish developer GMV has been working with Vodafone to bring a product called atlas to Linux-toting enterprise, enabling…
Opera Software joins the LiMo Foundation
Opera Software announced that its has joined the LiMo Foundation. Their idea is simple – Opera wants to have its mobile browser(s) running on every possible platform. That being said, we’ve already seen them releasing Opera Mini for Android, and their browser is also available on a range of feature phones. Guess, this means that…
Study: Financial Squeeze Pressuring Mobile Manufacturers to Use Linux
The LiMo foundation welcomed lots of new members today, and according to recent research, it’s due in a large part to economic conditions favouring a license-free operating system. “There are multiple factors driving the growth of the market for Linux in mobile handsets. In the current economy, the need to manage costs has pushed OEMs…
LiMo Foundation announces widget support, carrier commitments, new version
Although Android is gaining momentum with a day, that doesn’t stop LiMo Foundation from advancing as well. Yesterday, they’ve released several news items. Let’s briefly go through each on of them: First, LiMo announced endorsement of OMTP BONDI Specification in order to bring Web 2.0 apps to LiMo handsets. As a result, many of the…
The Palm Mojo Applications Framework – Web OS and web developers, together at last!
The new Web OS represents Palm’s bid to retake the huge chunk of the smartphone market that it has lost to the likes of Nokia, RIM (BlackBerry), and the iPhone over the years. Together with the newly announced Palm Pre smartphone, the Web OS offers a slick, gesture-based UI that’s at once intuitive and incredibly…
Palm CEO Confirms Next-Generation Palm OS “Nova” Already in the Wild
Palm has a lot riding on its next-generation Palm OS platform, dubbed “Nova.” The struggling smartphone maker, once responsible for pioneering the PDA/smartphone market, is banking on their revamped, Linux-based mobile OS platform to bring the company back into the mainstream. And, from the looks of previously released screenshots, the Palm Nova platform should bring…
Maemo 5 SDK pre-alpha released
Nokia has released the first version of Maemo 5 SDK. The pre-alpha release is targeted mainly at platform developers and is not suitable for application development yet — it’s far from feature complete and the UI look and feel is still based on Maemo 4. However, developers can look at the new Kernel setup, which…
Nokia looking forward to Linux powered handsets
Google’s Android OS may be enjoying the majority of the Linux-limelight, what with the T-Mobile G1’s recent launch and all. But, there are other Linux-based mobile operating systems in the works, waiting for their turn to shine in the smartphone segment. Even amidst the transition to an open-source Symbian code-base, Nokia is open to using…
iPhone goes open-source – Linux ported to iPhone!
What’s this? An iPhone running on the Linux operating system? It was only a matter of time. The most closed and controlled mobile development platform has been hacked to run open-source Linux-code! And you thought iPhone Dev Team members were just working to unlock the iPhone 3G baseband firmware… iPhone Dev Team hacker planetbeing has…