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[News] Google Comes to Linux Phones in Japan, Expands Free Media Moves

  • Subject: [News] Google Comes to Linux Phones in Japan, Expands Free Media Moves
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:58:40 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Google ties up with Japan's DoCoMo to grow abroad

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| The two firms, which also plan to launch a Linux-based mobile handset in 
| Japan, aim to reap joint advertising revenues of 10 billion yen "as soon as 
| possible," they said, without disclosing how they plan to split revenues.  
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKT8179720080124

YouTube expands mobile video service

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| YouTube is expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the 
| videos available on its Web site, hoping to widen its sway on pop culture. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_hi_te/youtube_mobile

Bad news for Big Media. Free videos and music over the line.


Related:

Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market

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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone 
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use 
| there.  
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q


PCs being pushed aside in Japan

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| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly 
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act 
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles, 
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs


Will Access become DoCoMo's Linux platform?

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| So will Access become DoCoMo's Linux platform? We believe that although this 
| collaboration is in its early stages there is a good chance that DoCoMo will 
| adopt ALP because it solves a number of key issues currently burdening DoCoMo 
| and its handset suppliers using a vendor that it has had a successful 
| relationship with.      
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http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6472


NTT DoCoMo ramps up the Linux mobile platform battle

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| There are at least three contenders jostling for a share of the growing 
| market for Linux-based mobile device platforms. Now giant Japanese cellular 
| operator, NTT DoCoMo, is throwing its weight behind a fourth.  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15826/127/


Linux phone stack vendor wins big in Japan

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| The deal could see the Access Linux Platform (ALP) serving as a common OS 
| platform for NEC, Panasonic, and Esteemo phones sold by NTT DoCoMo and other 
| mobile carriers.   
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http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3265888001.html


Linux set for more handsets in 2008-Torvalds

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| But last month Web search leader Google said it would offer a software 
| platform, built on Linux, to make the Internet work as smoothly on mobile 
| phones as it does on computers.  
| 
| "I haven't been personally involved but it certainly looks like 2008 may be, 
| thanks to the Google Alliance, one of the years you will find more widely 
| available phones with Linux," Torvalds told Reuters in an interview on 
| Friday.    
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSL1478887720071214


Linux mobile phone stack vendors align

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| MontaVista and Access have pledged to work together to produce a version of 
| MontaVista's Linux-based mobile phone operating system optimized for Access's 
| mobile phone software application and middleware stack.  
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4649082981.html


Open Mobile Alliance to Support Mobile Linux Handsets

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| The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum says has established a formal liaison 
| and framework for cooperation between the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 
| LiPS. In particular, LiPS delivers specifications and standards for services 
| and user applications on Linux-based telephony platforms, and OMA develops 
| open specifications for mobile content and services.    
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http://www.cellular-news.com/story/26100.php


Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices

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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we 
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for 
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging 
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of 
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.    
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html


Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying

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| It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's 
| perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can 
| unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133


Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile

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| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional 
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech 
| Computer Corpto design a Linux 
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.   
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073

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