Better Make That a Stretch
LiMo Foundation adds members and tooling
January 23, 2008 —
January has been a busy month for the Limo Foundation, which saw new developments in its Common Integration Environment while it welcomed new members as well.
The foundation, established a year ago by mobile industry leaders Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone, is dedicated to the development of an open and globally consistent Linux-based platform for mobile electronics. The Common Integration Environment, or CIE, is the core platform for future development and testing of the LiMo platform.
Azingo, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of open mobile phone software and services, announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7 that the LiMo Foundation had selected its software phone emulator and associated reference applications and tools for the CIE.
Having changed its name from Celunite at the beginning of 2008, the privately-held Azingo will supply software management, testing and bug tracking tools to the project, with the goal of reducing the fragmentation in the mobile Linux market, and eliminating wherever possible the amount of wheel redesign that LiMo participants would have to perform.
LiMo selected Azingo’s software because it was ideally suited to the management, integration and testing of the platform, noted LiMo Foundation executive director Morgan Gillis in a prepared statement. Added Azingo CEO Mahesh Veerina, “We are honored that the industry’s leading operators and handset manufacturers have chosen to place their trust in us.”
CIE in the Sky?
According to the foundation, the CIE will be implemented in 2008 among the membership. LiMo’s own platform integration team, and each member’s engineering team, will begin using CIE for integrating and validating future software releases. Among the benefits the foundation expects to realize from the use of CIE include the shortening of platform release schedules and the maximizing of collaboration among developers, as well as the elimination of much, if not all, redundant integration efforts.
Along that line, the foundation also announced on Jan. 7 that five new members had joined its roster. The recruits are: Japanese specialists in user interface and messaging for mobile devices Acrodea; ETRI, a South Korean mobile R&D house; China’s Huawei, which manufactures devices; Purple Labs, mobile Linux specialists headquartered in France; and Trolltech of Norway, bringing its mobile development framework to the table.
“This latest wave of new members brings further mobile device and platform integration leaders into the LiMo ecosystem,” noted foundation head Gillis in the announcement. “We are delighted to see them joining forces with existing LiMo members to accelerate the delivery of innovative new handsets, applications and services.”
Share this link: http://sdt.bz/31623
Most Read Latest News Blog Resources
Android is the focus of two new design tools
Anywhere Software and Xamarin provide ways for developers to create and test their applications on PCs
|
|
LEADTOOLS HTML5 add-on modules released
Including New HTML5 Zero Footprint Viewer, JavaScript Libraries and RESTful Web Services for Document and Medical SDKs
|
|
How to speed up your Cukes
Using a five-step process derived from Six Sigma, Cucumber tests can go much faster
|
|
WhiteSource offers open-source license management as a service
Software gives companies insight into the open-source components in products
|
SmartBear rolls out new quality solution: API Complete
Software gives organizations ability to write test scripts and monitor APIs by bridging the DevOps divide
|
|
Android is the focus of two new design tools
Anywhere Software and Xamarin provide ways for developers to create and test their applications on PCs
|
|
WhiteSource offers open-source license management as a service
Software gives companies insight into the open-source components in products
|
|
Top five devices you can integrate with your applications
A five-fingered list of common, household items with which you can talk to (via software, of course)
|
Slick...but who needs it?
compilr.com is a well-designed site and the folks behind it seem to have their heart in the right place. But...who needs it?
|
|
How to be a better software developer
Want to be a better developer? You won't get there by mastering an interesting language or learning a new set of APIs.
|
|
Wooing Galatea
Do yourself a favor and check out Galatea 2.2, a wonderful book by novelist Richard Powers.
|
|
The world as story
An artificial-intelligence system at Carnegie Mellon seeks to understand the world by making statements about it.
|
Five SCM Best Practices
Two-thirds of all software projects fail, according to the Standish Group’s CHAOS study. Improper usage of software configuration management...
|
|
|
Best Practices for Branching and Merging Patterns
Development teams often create a branching pattern, usually drawn out on a white board or in a Visio document, that is used as a model to...
|
|
Automated Error Reporting
We invite you to read a short e-zine that tells you all about automated error reporting for .NET applications. This 8-page e-zine is packed...
|
|
The End of Application Redeploys
Imagine that every time you wanted to write, send or receive an email, you needed to restart your computer. How much time would this take, a...
|