Open season on carriers
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| Apple's iPhone, Google's Android OS platform and Nokia's Maps 2.0 GPS
| technology are striking a blow against cellular network operators' closed and
| lucrative business model. Where the operators have long been accustomed to
| dictating services, applications, device definitions and--most of
| all--prices, last week's Mobile World Congress here heard a cry for openness:
| for applications and services that can run independently of cellular
| operators on any mobile device.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504465
How is the iPhone a part of this, unless it's unlocked (service) and opened for
3rd-party development? Android (Linux), on the other hand...
Related:
Google’s open access challenge
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| Since their wireless oligopoly is their primary source of profits, a
| successful move by Google could also force AT&T and Verizon to compete in the
| wired space, freeing more bits on their current networks, which are now being
| hoarded for pay TV services.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1235
Google edges into wireless e-mail
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| Last Thursday, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer,
| told an analyst meeting that his company needed to push back
| against the emerging trend of free Web-based software.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070218.wgooog0218/BNStory/Technology/home
http://tinyurl.com/2q9j97
Linux powers $50 wireless mesh router
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| Meraki was founded by CEO Sanjit Biswas, and is based in Mountain
| View, Calif. In February, it closed a $5 million funding round led
| by Google and Sequoia Capital.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4963484100.html
What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
|
| [...]
|
| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
|
| [...]
|
| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance — which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide — adds to the momentum.
|
| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
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