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LiMo Foundation adds members and tooling
By P. J. Connolly
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.”
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