My interest in operating systems for different platforms has already shown itself when talking about mobile handsets. The same question applies to the IPTV world. As we move towards an appliance that sits in the living room and does essentially everything, what operating system will it be using? Are we going to be ruled by Microsoft or by Linux? Windows Microsoft is making moves towards the living room. It started with Windows CE being pushed on set top box manufacturers,
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 15th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, IPTV
Now that Nokia’s has announced their purchase of Symbian and their attempt to open source it, it is time to try and see how the market of operating systems looks like today - especially with regards to what is going to happen to Windows Mobile. As Michael Mace puts it rather nicely - it’s the end of a dream: “No matter how it works out in the long run, the purchase of Symbian by Nokia marks the end of a
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 7th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Windows Mobile has about 12% market share in the mobile handsets market worldwide. In the past several months a trend has started to show - the strength of Windows Mobile over Linux distributions. The migration to Linux In the past several years, there were two main handset platforms for smart phones: Symbian and Windows Mobile. While Symbian enjoyed a large market share, Windows Mobile was starting to gain ground - especially because it was not owned by a handset
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 16th, 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
MobileCrunch recently compared Android OS with LiMo. Both are viewed as Linux-based platforms for handsets. However, I think they missed a crucial point - Android OS is simply not Linux.I’d like to first fix the comparison table on MobileCrunch’s post based on the interesting comments found in that specific post. Here is a list to summarize the differences: An SDK will be available in LiMo “soon”. Probably later on this year. With Android having one, I am sure
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Clients
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
