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Open Networks, Open Platforms Seen As Mobile Industry's Future

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| Google's Android operating system and VoIP applications like Skype will be
| major contributors, a panel of communications experts predicts.
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Also:

The Essential Guide to Open-Source VoIP

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| Open-source VoIP development shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, the
| field of available technologies is likely to continue growing, with new
| technologies arriving and older offerings being updated on a continual basis.
| One place to keep an eye on new and cutting-edge VoIP technologies is
| theeComm Conference 2008.
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Funambol Does Mobile Social Networking, Open Source Style

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| Code Sniper is Funambol community program that rewards developers
| with monetary bounties to work on open source projects that benefit mobile
| users around the globe.
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Funambol is AGPLv3-licensed, Google Android partner.


Related:

What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises

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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
|
| [...]
|
| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
|
| [...]
|
| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide adds to the momentum.
|
| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices

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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future

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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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Why do they rant its Linux when the apps are not native Linux
applications?

The future of mobile is going to happen ONLY with
Linux and Linux based telephony applications with standard
PC developer systems like gcc, gtk / kde.

The longer they resist the more time and money they loose.

____/ 7 on Thursday 13 March 2008 22:47 : \____



Apple will try to do its thing with overpriced (tied to carrier) phones that
are 'open' only in the sense that they allow 'third-party' programs to be
added.

Google, unlike Apple, has the adverti *** t (lower cost) and network (spectrum)
advantage.

Android is one of the reasons Microsoft is worried not only about Google, but
also about Linux. Linux is an /enabler/... to Google, to IBM and to just about
any company that wants to build itself up independently from Microsoft.

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
< XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
wrote
on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:47:39 GMT
<faiCj.23100$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >:


??

I see no rant here at all, except a plea for continued Net
neutrality (briefly put, the Net should not discriminate
against the competition when it comes to routing packets,
data, or both).

It turns out the MPAA has a slightly different opinion...

($100/month?? And I thought cable was bad...)


Debatable, though no other freeware OS is really ready to
step into the breach at this point.


We'll see. Certainly the Orange Phone isn't exactly
getting a lot of buzz anymore. ;-) But Symbian still holds
a goodly fraction of the market, last I looked, although
Google's Android looks poised to make a run for it.

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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 13 March 2008 23:15 : \____


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Did you see what happened to Nokia after this week's disappointing outlook from
TI? Either way, the worry is that Nokia is a little too close to Microsoft.
Microsoft DRM, anti-Ogg, Silverfish, pro-software patents, etc. This kind of
ruins the upsides like Maemo and Qt.

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Roy Schestowitz < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > espoused:


Nokia are playing both sides, it would seem. They have considerable
investment in Symbian, of course. I wonder if Symbian might be
open-sourced? That could be very interesting...

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n comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
< XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
wrote
on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:35:59 +0000
< XXXX@XXXXX.COM >:

I for one would hope Symbian goes open-source and that
its relevant drivers be incorporated into Linux somehow.
It does seem to have a lot of IP relating to phones.

Admittedly I don't know how hard it would be to port Symbian
apps to Linux (given those drivers).

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In article < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >,


Not to mention the licensing issues. Phones are often under regulatory
restrictions that some think are incompatible with GPL.

Also, phones stop working if you don't pay your bill. According the
FSF, you can't use GPL software in devices that require a subscription
to function.

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--Tim Smith