Industry support is growing behind Mozilla's plans to launch a new fully open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5.
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Morgan, who spoke to me on the sidelines of the Open Mobile Summit in London last week, is moving on.
"Open mobile networks threaten Microsoft and every other established player, " notes Ho.
But it could also be that the move towards open mobile presents new opportunities for Chinese companies to exert the control over innovation they crave.
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For its part, Accel says it will continue to invest across cloud services and next generation infrastructure, social media and e-commerce, gaming, software and open mobile.
This is the first mobile handset to be released on Samsung's new, open mobile platform, Samsung bada, and the cornerstone of the company's commitment to provide a smartphone for every lifestyle.
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That brawl came at San Francisco's Open Mobile Summit last week, where tensions boiled over into a series of subtle (and not-so-subtle) jabs between Google exec Rich Miner, Symbian veep Jerry Panagrossi, and Nokia's Mary McDowell.
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The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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We're not totally clear on why these guys need this on top of the Android Market and China Mobile's own Open Mobile System initiative, but for what it's worth, Chinese buyers of the XT701, MT710, and XT800 will have yet another way to find, buy, and store purchases for their phones.
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It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
Google's open source mobile platform, Android, is expected to launch later this year.
As the retailer has pushed more heavily into mobile strategies including a plan to open about 500 more mobile-only outlets through 2016, it hired a new CIO to lead the charge.
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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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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.
She is passionate about open innovation in mobile and telephony startups.
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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Analysts and industry watchers expect the company to announce details of its new Meego operating system at the event, an open-sourced mobile operating system on which it has been collaborating with Intel and hopes to use on high-end smart phones that compete with Apple's iPhone.
The tunnels were still open and operating, Mobile fire officials said in a statement.
Cutting the cost of getting connected would open the door for mobile payments and make Myanmar a more attractive market for Visa.
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It will make frictionless sharing EVEN MORE FRICTIONLESS as you will be able to have mobile apps open inside of Facebook and share instantly.
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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.
Worklight is a privately held company based in Tel Aviv and New York that provides an open-standards based mobile application platform that helps companies build and iterate mobile apps quickly.
The Mozilla Marketplace will open for developers to submit Web apps at Mobile World Congress next week and will open to consumers later this year.
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Intel, the PC chipset giant whose core business has come under threat from the burgeoning demand for portable mobile devices, may be planning to open up its once exclusive fabrication plants to third-party mobile players.
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Those aforementioned cameras also open up motion-sensor mobile games to keep you moving.
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Access to my show on mobile devices will open up additional opportunities for my fans to hear me wherever they are.
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The company will open more small Best Buy Mobile stores, where it uses a device-savvy sales force to sell smart phones and other mobile devices.
Now, the field is wide open for anything and everything mobile.
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