As a rival open-source mobile operating system, Symbian was often compared to Android, sometimes unfavorably.
Other areas of focus include MeeGo, the open-source mobile operating system that Intel and Nokia are jointly developing.
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Google's open source mobile platform, Android, is expected to launch later this year.
Acer is also seriously considering releasing a tablet based on the open-source mobile operating system Meego, according to two Acer product managers.
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The free software community today unveiled the two phones it will ship to developers who want to make apps for its forthcoming open-source mobile platform.
One mobile phone industry source told BBC News that the new tax was "not a favourable approach" and could be "detrimental" to the industry, especially as it raises fears of customers being taxed for other short term projects.
The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Why not take one more while you wait: according to a proven source of Mobile Geeks, German electronics retailer Media Markt has the iPad mini in 16 flavors in its inventory system.
While mobile is a "nascent source of revenue for us, " Yahoo sites get more than 200 million monthly unique visitors from mobile-device users, Ms. Mayer said on Monday's call following the earnings release.
The device automatically communicates with the source device (mobile phone, tablet or laptop) to determine which WPS method to use.
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The other option is Ubuntu for smartphones from Canonical, which brings the mega-popular open source OS to mobile devices, specifically those designed for Android.
"T-Mobile has been an important source of competition among the national carriers, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network, " said Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
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He noted that mobile phones were only one potential source of boorish behaviour in the theatre.
Vodafone, a big mobile operator based in Britain, sees mobile advertising as a potentially lucrative source of additional income.
In education, Africa can leapfrog into digital books and mobile learning to become a leading source of new educational businesses and industries.
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Source: Worldwide Mobile Phone Growth Expected to Drop to 1.4% in 2012 Despite Continued Growth Of Smartphones, According to IDC on 04 Dec 2012.
Much of the underlying software that runs mobile apps, as well, is open source and publicly accessible, most of it now through GitHub.
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"If it's possible to source the raw ingredients for a mobile phone - and I am not talking anything to rival Apple - I'll certainly have a good bash, " he says.
In 2008, Google launched the open-source Android operating system, licensing mobile software to any and all device makers (at no cost), allowing others to tweak their code and innovate without permission.
"We have come to rely on mobile machines and devices that always need a source of power whether it be the grid, batteries, or fuel, " said Chris Norris, president and CEO of Alta Devices.
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Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
The inclusion of revenues from The Source (retail outlets) and Virgin Mobile Canada also contributed.
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Air Canada used mobile to replace silos of information with a single source that looks the same, and provides the same information, across its gate agent terminals, kiosks, Web site and mobile devices.
He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.
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For mobile carriers, tablets like the iPad present a new revenue source.
Running on the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network, NFL Mobile from Verizon will be the on-the-go source for real-time coverage.
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But the mobile sector was already on a long march to using open source software in all the critical elements of the chain, from the OS up.
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American Express and Verizon Wireless will also collaborate to source, distribute and simplify redemption of online and mobile offers with participating merchants through the use of the Serve account.
OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation's lack of existence -- the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games.
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