Open Source Mobile Platform News & Information
Since it was publicly announced in January 2007, the LiMo Foundation has been steadily adding new names to it’s membership roster. Today, it announced that eleven new companies have joined the foundation, bringing its membership total to more than 50.
All eleven listed companies joined the foundation as Associate Members. Some of them - Esmertec, Telecom Italia, and PacketVideo Corporation (PV) , are also member-companies of the Open Handset Alliance, the organization overseeing the development of the Android platform. In addition to Esmertec, Telecom Italia, and PacketVideo Corporation (PV). some of the core members of the Android platform - NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, and Motorola, are founding members of the LiMo Foundation.
So while the LiMo Foundation’s members list has been growing, the Android platform has yet to add a new member since the first or second week after it was launched in October, 2007.
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Movial joins the LiMO Foundation, and contributes Browser D-Bus Bridge to the Open Source Community
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The iPhone is not a “phone” any more than my laptop computer is a phone. The iPhone can make phone calls, but so can my laptop.
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Your fave desktop games and cartoons is also available on your mobile device. Now you can play on the go, but please, not while your are driving
You won’t be able to use Adobe Photoshop on your mobile handset - yet, but there are lots of cool graphics stuff that you can indulge in.
Stay in touch with your friends and family members with these applications and information: PIM, mobile email, calendar, etc
A typical mobile phone contains a whole bunch of communication information which tells the mobile phone what network operator your mobile phone is connected with, and how to optimize your mobile signal in order to ascertain the best signal strength. You can usually access all this information by typing in a special character combination on your mobile phone which will take you to the engineering information screen.
Locle is a mobile application that allows you to see where your contacts are without using GPS. It’s a new service, with very little information on the company’s website. Here’s the complete description of the service that you’ll find on the company’s website:
AdMob’s iPhone Developer Program carries a price tag of $1.0 million, but that’s not $1.0 million cash. Rather, AdMob will select upto “200 iPhone developers to receive $5,000 in AdMob advertising credit to acquire traffic for their web & native apps”.
Locify is a location-based service that allows anyone with a supported phone to explore places of interest from “Wikipedia, seek for geocaches, display map where you are (or you want to go), twitter you location, save interesting places from phone or web sync them and even navigate to them”.
An Android polling application from Mastiff Tech, a consulting and development service provider based in Mumbai, India. The polling application is their first for Android.
Boaters and Sailors now have their own mobile social network that allows them to interact and share content in very much the same manner that members of other social networks do. The new social network also has its own Internet TV channel on the Moqulus Internet TV network.
