Nokia has announced they are going to purchase Symbian and the same time open source it. This is a move that is probably going to change (yet again) the landscape of the mobile market. It began with Apple’s iPhone and continued with Google’s Android OS. Although this move can be attributed to this chain of events, as Ted from Signal to Noise points out, I think it is only the tip of the iceberg. There are other reasons for this
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 26th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
3G-324M can be found in over 450 million handsets worldwide. A software based protocol stack that is needed in every 3G handset, 3G-324M, however, has absolutely zero open source implementation? Because it is not IP based. Commercial value The open source model succeeds; not because people want to contribute and invest their time in free software; it is because corporations are finding a way to support such investments by getting their revenues indirectly - by selling maintenance, services, training, advertising
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 9th, 2008 | Filed under Standardization
VoIP clients on mobile handsets are just starting to happen. At the same time, Linux is becoming an interesting mobile platform. The problem is, Linux is quite fragmented: Android, LiMo, Qtopia are just a few of the many flavors of the popular freely available open source OS. This is not just a fragmentation of distributions, which is the case today for the desktop and enterprise Linux markets, but rather a fragmentation of user interface (UI) frameworks. The mobile UI
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
No company today is capable of developing its products in-house without using 3rd party software. In most cases the process starts from outsourcing the operating system itself, continues with outsourcing specific protocol stacks and user interface engines, etc. These come from vendors which are sometimes called ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), middleware vendors or various other types of manufacturers.I came across Åse Stiller’s guest post on VisionMobile, where he recommends vendors build an end-to-end flowchart of how source codes of their
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 14th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
