Motorola recently announced an investment in VirtualLogix, a company that lets multiple operating systems run on the same piece of hardware. This means you could have a single phone in your pocket that runs Windows Mobile, the BlackBerry OS, and Google’s Android OS.
VirtualLogix is a provider of real-time virtualization. Its technology enables the mobility of applications from the desktop to devices, improves quality of service and security in an open mobile world, and will enable a new generation of dynamic individual user experiences. Motorola and others believe in the technology and decided it was worth investing in.
Currently, programmers have to rewrite every application - be it a game, social networking service, or other feature - for each of the various operating systems, including Symbian, Microsoft…
A La Mobile, a San Ramon, CA based open source handset software development, has deployed Google’s Android platform into an HTC Qtek 9090 smartphone. The company is touting it as the first functioning Android-based handset.
The company included in the suite of applications a Google browser, phone dialer, audio player, maps, camera, games, calendar, contacts manager, calculator, tasks manager and notes. “While mobile Linux has made steady progress in the industry since 2006, Google’s advocacy with the unveiling of the Android framework further substantiates the position of Linux as a major mobile operating system alongside Windows Mobile and Symbian,” a la Mobile’s president and CEO Pauline Lo Alker said in a statement.
Read the full story here.
In his first major speech since taking control of Yahoo last June, Mr. Yang announced the launch of a new upgraded mobile home page for cellphones, an updated version of its mobile portal Yahoo Go as well as new software tools to help outside developers design applications and widgets to work in conjunction with Yahoo’s mobile offerings.
Yahoo also announced new partnerships with News Corp.’s MySpace, eBay Inc. and Viacom’s MTV network, which will see those companies use Yahoo’s development tools to create mobile applications users can access through Yahoo.
However, Yahoo has opted not to enter the mobile operating system market. Microsoft has already shipped millions of Windows Mobile-equipped devices while Google plans to unveil its own open source operating system later this year that will…
Tags: eBay Inc., Google, Microsoft, MySpace, News Corp., operating system, operating systems, software tools, Viacom, Yahoo!, Yang.
Miguel Helft
October 11, 2007, New York Times
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google have been working in secret on a mobile-phone project.
As word of their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the way they do for Apple loyalists before a speech by Steve Jobs.
But the GPhone is not likely to be the second coming of the iPhone and Google’s goals are very different from Apple’s.
Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile internet, a small market today but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile-phone makers to offer phones based on its software,…
Tags: ad systems, advertising services, Android, Andy Rubin, Arun Sarin, AT&T, Boston, Britain, Celunite, Dan Olschwang, DoubleClick, Doug Smith, Envisioneering Group, Eric Schmidt, Federal Communications Commission, Google, IDC, JumpTap, Karsten Weide, large group, last carrier, Linux, Mahesh Veerina, Medio Systems, Microsoft, Miguel Helft, mobile advertising, mobile communications, mobile Internet, mobile internet portals, mobile phones, mobile search, mobile software, mobile versions, mobile-phone operators, mobile-phone platform applications, mobile-phone software, New York Times, online advertising, online success, operating system, operating systems, phone software platform, Rich Miner, Richard Doherty, Scott Cleland, search engine, search engines, software applications, start-up, Steve Jobs, technology*, telecommunications, United States, United States Senate, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group, web browser, wireless carriers, wireless industry, wireless market, wireless spectrum.
A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices.
The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project aims to create the open source platform for initial release in October 2007. The operating system will be developed by members of the Ubuntu community, along with staff from chip giant Intel. Its development was prompted by the growth of power hungry portable devices that place new demands on software.
“It is clear that new types of device - small, handheld, graphical tablets which are Internet-enabled - are going to change the way we communicate and collaborate,” said Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman.
“These devices place new demands on open-source software and require innovative graphical interfaces, improved power management and better responsiveness.”
…
Tags: Canonical, cellular telephone, conventional processors, Dell, energy efficiency, hungry portable devices, Intel, Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, Matt Zimmerman, Microsoft, open source software projects, open source technologies, open-source software, operating system, operating systems, Paul Otellini, portable devices, power-hungry applications, prototype device, Seville, South Africa, Spain, technology world, tiny low-energy chip, Ubuntu.
In 2004, 4.1 percent of Sri Lankan households had computers. As the data comes in from our six-country study, we will post the numbers for those countries as well.
Looks like this will change the nature of the debate. The report states that Intel and Microsoft are not happy with Negoponte’s baby.
For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate - New York Times
Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as “a really wacky idea.”
Ms. Jepsen, a former Intel chip designer, found a way to modify conventional laptop displays, cutting the screen’s manufacturing cost to $40 while reducing its power consumption by more than 80 percent. As…
Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Debate - New York Times, Intel, Libya, Mary Lou Jepsen, Microsoft, Nigeria, operating system, Taiwan, Thailand, USD.
Recent Comments