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Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit
Sun has open sourced its toolkit for creating Java-based user interfaces for mobile phones. Read more »
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Read more »
Mobile Linux standards rocked by merger
The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. Read more »
What does Nokia's Symbian move mean for Android?
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry. Read more »
Symbian expects Android to get forked
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood. Read more »
Mozilla joins LiMo for enterprise Linux-phone push
The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. Read more »
Xandros joins Viyya Tech in mobile device push
Xandros, which makes the Windows-like Linux distribution used in ASUS's popular Eee PC sub-laptop, has signed a deal with information-management software maker Viyya Technologies to jointly target portable devices such as laptops and mobile Internet devices. Read more »
LiMo releases its mobile Linux platform
The LiMo Foundation released the first full version of its mobile phone platform on Monday. Read more »
Cyborg or clone? Google's Android debuts at WMC
Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. Read more »
What does Nokia's Trolltech buy mean for Symbian?
Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary. Read more »
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Nokia enters the mobile open source battle
Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms — Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP — are to be pooled into one open-sourced über-platform, came out of the blue. Read more »
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Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill
-- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »
Microsoft says "open sesame"
-- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »