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While the Googlers want to talk today about improvements to GMail for mobile, there remains a serious concern for you to discuss this weekend.
Is Google really good at being part of an open source community?
There are three types of mobile source projects:
1. One-company projects. 2. Multiple-company projects. [...]

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Last week, I spent a lot of time with the folks from Symbian, the mobile operating system that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) paid $410 million for, only to turn around and donate the assets to an open-source foundation. What I wanted to know was how the employees—who were once programmed to make profits and [...]

A startup called Rhomobile announced the first formal release of its dual-licensed, open-source framework for smartphones. Rhodes 1.0 enables “write-once” development, using HTML and Ruby, of native smartphone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and now Android, the company says.
Rhodes reduces development costs by “up to five times” by eliminating the need to develop [...]

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Informa Telecoms & Media has released a report saying that Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, based on the idea that “open” handsets will do better than proprietary systems. For the same reason Informa predicts that Symbian’s decline?its share of the smartphone market was 49 percent last year, down from [...]

At this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of “Mobilizing Open Source”, which was no doubt spurred in part by the increasing attention Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android, has drawn. While open-source products have, for the most part, been pushed into a corner and untouched in the [...]

The big news from the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year: New phones using the Android, LiMo and Symbian open-source operating systems are rolling out in 2009.
What’s unusual is that it is not the handsets themselves that are creating the buzz so much as what is under the hood and invisible to the user, the [...]

Fabrizio Capobianco is calling Windows Mobile a failure, and Matt Asay agrees.
Someone want to get word to the President on this? (Pictured, what the smart Presidents are supposedly carrying this year. It’s a Windows Mobile.)
Fabrizio’s main point is a valid one. In mobility Microsoft is just one of many competitors, and right now the big [...]

The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google’s Android and Chrome, and Nokia’s move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.
The year 2008 showed open source — both in the form of Linux specifically and as a software development model generally — coming into the mainstream [...]

Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer base. This move comes at the same time Google [...]

When Google announced Android, its wide-ranging cellphone project, last November, it promised a mobile platform more open than any other in the wireless industry.
On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant aims to make good on that pledge by releasing the Android platform source code for free via a new Web site. The release comes [...]