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  • LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Partner to Catalyze Further Open Source Innovation

    Alignment between these two key organizations will accelerate mainstream adoption of open source technologies and will empower open source developers worldwide

    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – 26 July 2010 – LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source software innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation. This development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo PlatformTM.

  • Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association Holds Inaugural Meeting

    Cooperation amongst the top players in the Korean Mobile Industry to boost the Korean application developer ecosystem

    LONDON, ENGLAND and SEOUL, KOREA – 10 May 2010 – LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of leading companies from the mobile industry, today announced the formal inauguration of the Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association (KLEA) on May 4 in Seoul, which aims at catalyzing the Korean mobile application developer ecosystem and generating innovation upon the LiMo Platform. The event attended by dignitaries from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, KT and LG Telecom amongst others, saw the election of Hoojong Kim from SK Telecom as the Chairperson of KLEA.

    KLEA will leverage the LiMo Platform to create LiMo World, an application development, publishing and distribution program that will act as a single point of entry for Korean developers wishing to develop for the LiMo Platform and will provide them with the necessary tools and localization support that will springboard them into the international mobile application market.

    "With KLEA, the leading Korean mobile companies which have a long history of innovation are uniting to unleash the apps potential of the Korean developer community for the benefit of a broader...
  • Open Letter to the Wholesale Applications Community

     

    Dear Industry Colleagues:

    Further to the public announcement of 15 February 2010, I am very pleased to write this open letter to the initiators of the Wholesale Applications Community on behalf of the Board of LiMo Foundation offering a) our full support, b) our committed participation, and c) our immediate practical assistance in a spirit of whole-industry cooperation.

    It is clear to us that the highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision create an exceptional opportunity for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community to release unfettered innovation across the industry and fully ignite the mobile internet in a way that is compelling and life-enhancing to consumers everywhere.
11 August LiMo News - Further Momentum, Devices, Members
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Written by Andrew Shikiar   
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:38

LiMo is pleased to issue two important announcements today that further demonstrate LiMo’s growth and leadership in the open mobile device platform arena.  The first announcement details the addition of 9 LiMo new compliant handset models from Panasonic and NEC – this now brings the total number of commercially produced LiMo devices to 42.  These handsets feature an array of dazzling technologies that demonstrate the versatility of LiMo Platform as the foundation for a mobile operating system and also the breadth and depth of innovation within LiMo members that are contributing to the growth and evolution of the LiMo ecosystem.  

The second announcement welcomes two additional members into LiMo Foundation:  KDDI and Immersion.  With KDDI on board, LiMo now counts amongst its members 12 global operators representing nearly a billion mobile subscribers.   Immersion’s expertise in haptic technologies has revolutionized the way that consumers interact with mobile and embedded devices – resulting in fascinating touch-screen experiences on a number of devices from leading OEMs around the globe.  By joining LiMo Immersion has the opportunity to contribute its expertise and technology directly into the LiMo platform and ecosystem.  

Today’s announcements are just two examples of the maturation and expansion of the LiMo ecosystem; further realization of the commercial plans of LiMo members will become fully evident in the weeks and months ahead.   Enabling all of this progress is LiMo’s independent governance model and business-model neutral stance, which encourages wide industry engagement and enables diverse commercial strategies from LiMo operators, OEMs and ISVs.  We’ll look forward to sharing these developments with you through the LiMo blog, and also at upcoming industry events – LiMo will have an active presence at several venues in the remainder of 2009, including Open Source World, Open Source in Mobile, 4G World, MetaPlaces and Open Mobile Summit.  If you’ll be at one of these events please make a point to come to our speaking sessions or demonstrations.

 
 
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