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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Google's open source mobile platform, Android, is expected to launch later this year.
It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
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.
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.
Interread and Onyx International have already agreed to take advantage of the APIs, dubbed Scribd Open content Platform for E-Readers and mobile Devices (SOPED).
To further its ad network ambitions Samsung Ventures has invested heavily in Open X, a platform for serving ads across devices including TV and mobile.
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By utilizing both mobile and cloud-based technology, the SMILE Consortium provides an open platform for creating new learning environments that enable Classroom 3.0.
Later this year the company plans to open itself to third-party mobile web developers, to host web apps on its platform.
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The UrtheCast web platform will combine a consumer centric website, mobile application for smart phones, and an open Application Program Interface (API).
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Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.
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