Red Bend Unveils Linux Mobile Phone Software With Over the Air Updates
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| Red Bend Software has unveiled a Linux mobile phone with software that can be
| fully customized over the air. Red Bend has partnered with industry-leading
| companies — including Digital Airways, Opera, Synchronica, Trolltech and Zi —
| to showcase a new concept in customizing mobile software where features,
| applications and services can be deployed and updated easily and securely
| over the air on consumers' handsets using Red Bend's vRapid Mobile.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/15935/red-bend-unveils-linux-mobile-phone-software-over-air-updatesc
http://tinyurl.com/35zyc4
Trolltech as a partner?
Nokia's Trolltech Grab Hurts Rivals
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| The software acquisition bolsters Nokia's perch in the mobile device arena,
| could further dismantle Motorola, and puts pressure on Google
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| But analysts hailed the €104 million ($153 million) acquisition of Oslo-based
| Trolltech as a kind of strategic hat trick. In one stroke, Nokia has managed
| to defend itself against incursions into the mobile-phone business by Apple
| and Google, while potentially further accelerating the meltdown of rival
| Motorola. "Nokia is responding extremely quickly to what Google and others
| are doing," notes Ben Wood, director at British mobile consultancy CCS
| Insight.
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2008/gb20080128_783831.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories
Oligopolies. Nokia is a pal of Microsoft, a good friend of DRM and software
patents, and a foe of Ogg.
Quote for the day:
"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."
--John Warden, lead attorney at Microsoft
Related (days ago the headline was different):
Red Bend Software and Trolltech to Bring Over-the-Air Software Component
Management to Linux Mobile Phones
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| Mobile phones have become sophisticated communications and multi-media
| devices. As functionality increases, so too does the amount of software
| inside mobile phones. Operators, manufacturers and software developers need
| the flexibility and control to update, add, change and remove any software
| component inside the mobile phone at any point during the device's lifetime.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080122/0350817.html
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