LiMo chief talks rivals, Nokia and mobile Linux
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| Do you think the Trolltech acquisition would lessen Nokia's reliance on
| Symbian?
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| I would tend to look at it with a slightly broader, more strategic view. We
| can all see that Nokia has, for the past two to three years, been
| concentrating its focus and investments and acquisitions on the
| user-experience layer — both the user interface and, through [Nokia's
| internet services platform] Ovi, the content as well.
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http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39292607,00.htm
The guy defected from Symbian to Linux.
Related:
Symbian senior VP defects to mobile Linux
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| The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation, an industry group building a common
| software stack for Linux-based mobile phones, today announced a dozen new
| members. The organization also disclosed that rival Symbian's longtime Senior
| VP of Sales and Professional Services, Morgan Gillis, will soon become its
| Executive Director.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8665166109.html
Sony Ericsson offers UIQ shares, analyst suggests to open source instead
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| After all, by not open sourcing a tiny bit of code nor even basing
| it's strategy on third party applications, we all know what Apple
| is going to achieve with the iPhone and succesive iPhone nano's,
| micro's, etc.
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http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/03/03/2007/sony-ericsson-offers-uiq-shares-analyst-suggests-to-open-source-instead/
http://tinyurl.com/2jfyw3
Symbian forecasts the death of the PC
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| "Desktops PCs are effectively a flatlining commodity," Clifford
| said on Tuesday, while conceding that laptops were eliciting
| "perhaps a bit more" excitement.
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| [...]
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| "We see loads of keypad experimentation across vendors. That's
| a trend of innovation that will increase until people find
| solutions. It's clear that the numeric keypad has started to
| creak with the introduction of mobile e-mail," Forsyth said,
| describing the competition between various new input
| technologies--such as handwriting recognition and foldable
| keyboards--as "Darwinian."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6126565.html?part=rss&tag=6126565&subj=news
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