Palm Linux-based webOS platform
Posted on February 25, 2009, under Google Android.
Palm has published technical overview of their new Linux-based webOS platform that will support Palm application development with web technologies. Platform SDK Palm’s leverages standards-based web technologies and allows third-party developers to build complete applications using a mix of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It uses a custom JavaScript framework called Mojo and bundles some popular third-party JavaScript libraries, including Prototype. WebOS applications are displayed on “stage” elements, which are described with HTML and contain various “scene” elements. Scenes are organized in a stack and can be displayed or removed programmatically with push and pop actions that are executed through the JavaScript scene assistant. Basic widgets are described in HTML by inserting a div element with a custom x-mojo-element attribute that specifies the name of the widget.
Linux and Intel partnership for mobile devices
Posted on October 19, 2008, under Open-Source.
Linux operating system is getting more and more popular on net-enabled phones and devices.
The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project aims to create the open source platform. The operating system will be developed by members of the Ubuntu community, along with staff from chip giant Intel.
“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. Mobile firms such as Nokia are already using open source technologies in some of its products.
Linux-based phone operating systems
Posted on October 12, 2008, under Open-Source.
In an attempt to decrease market fragmentation, benefit from community involvement, and avoid the high costs associated with proprietary mobile software solutions, the prominent mobile technology companies hope to facilitate the construction of a complete platform for mobile software development including an API specification, a complete reference implementation, and a comprehensive set of associated development tools.
LiMo - Linux for Mobile Foundation
Posted on October 6, 2008, under Open-Source.
LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending the community-based development benefits of “transparent, innovative and scalable” open source software. It will be guided by a board of directors comprising the Foundation Chairman Greg Besio of Motorola and vice- chairman Kiyohito Nagata of NTT DoCoMo.
To support their goal of creating world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based platform for cellphones, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone have launched LiMo (Linux for Mobile) Foundation.