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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.
Palm - the Trailblazer?
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Written by Patanjali Somayaji, Director, Engineering, Azingo   
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:46

 

Palm's recent announcements around the openness of their Application Developer Model did not garner as much attention as the other stories about Application Developers not making much money on Application Stores, despite the hype. However, in the current climate of closed Application Stores, Palm's plan is quite significant:

(1) Palm will allow developers to distribute their applications via a Web link (via Palm), that directly installs the Application to the device without going through the App Store

(2) No $99 developer fee for Apps that are released as open source

(3) Opening up of analytical data to developers, and

(4) No Palm review of applications that are published.

 

In today's climate of closed Application Stores, Palm's announcement is very significant – development and SDKs are open, but platforms still control the deployment of applications. This can be very controlled, as in the case of Apple, and not so rigid, as on Google Android. Palm has taken quite a few steps ahead with web distribution of applications and access to analytical data.

 

Is this the future for all Application Stores? The answer lies in how large an ecosystem Palm can drive with this approach. While Palm's expertise in building ecosystems is well known, the landscape has changed significantly, and Palm is still working on the chicken-and-egg problem of getting enough devices out in the market to sustain developer momentum.

 

The application distribution is not completely open yet – the developer submits the App to Palm, and Palm publishes a link that can be used on a web page to distribute the Application. However, it is a step in the positive direction and it is a sign of things to come, and if Palm succeeds, others will have to follow.

 
 
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