Symbian (wikipedia), the market leading operating system for mobile phones, celebrated its ten year anniversary today — with a bang. Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone company, plans to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn’t already own and make the platform open source.
“Our vision is to become the most widely used software [...]
The Wall Street Journal says Google’s open platform, Android, won’t arrive on handsets until the fourth quarter. But Om Malik and Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet say it’s the carriers that have delayed Google’s Android launch.
T-Mobile is sucking all the oxygen out of the room with its demands for proprietary advantages in the phone it [...]
The FCC is seeking feedback on the 2155-2180 MHz band for nationwide free Internet service (pdf). The band would also have provisions for content filtering and open access to third-party devices and applications, says RCR Wireless News.
It could give federal regulators greater legal cover if opponents decide to take the FCC to court after [...]
Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Intel, Samsung, Sprint, and Clearwire, plan Monday to announce (webcast) the creation of an organization called the Open Patent Alliance, says C/Net.
OPA will form a WiMAX patent pool to help participating companies obtain access to patent licenses from patent owners at a predictable cost. It’s an effort to prevent costly royalty rates [...]
I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
- Weezer
Over 80 technical sessions on OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android, Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit, and more were featured at Google I/O, the [...]
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, says the NY Times. It’s intended to make customization easier and shorten design time.
The CAD files for the OpenBook reference design can be downloaded for free. They’re made available to anyone under the Creative Commons Attribution [...]
While I was goofing off this weekend, others were hard at work, reports Oregon’s best reporter on startups, Rick Turoczy who covered Portland Startup Weekend and WebVisions 2008.
Web Visions, which explores the future of the Web, featured two days of sessions and great speakers (slide presentations).
Jason Grigsby of Mobile Portland, says adoption [...]
One Laptop Per Child announced the second generation XO laptop today. It may replace XO-1 in 2010. Negroponte said the organization hoped to price the new computer at $75 each, compared with the $188 price for the current generation of laptops.
Nicholas Negroponte says the new system will have two touch-sensitive displays. The XO 2.0 will [...]
The FCC has taken a first step toward re-auctioning the 700MHz “D block” in the 700 MHz band.
The FCC voted to ask for public comments (pdf) on how to re-auction the 10MHz piece of spectrum. Commissioners wanted to pair it with another 10MHz controlled by public-safety agencies to build a nationwide network shared by public-safety [...]
The LiMo Foundation, Android’s chief competitor in the mobile open-source community, today announced eight new members, including Verizon Wireless, along with leading South Korean network operator SK Telecom and Mozilla Corp., parent of the Firefox Web browser.
Like Google’s Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the Android platform, LiMo is a global consortium of mobile communications firms [...]
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