Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The LiMo Foundation was founded in January 2007 by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone. In April 2008 it released, on schedule, The LiMo Platform Release 1 , claiming it to be is the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.
Executive director, Morgan Gillis said: "With Release 1 of the LiMo Platform now completed, LiMo Foundation has established a scalable and sustainable mobile device platform that will spur rapid innovation and contributions from all LiMo member."
This week he welcomed formation of the Symbian Foundation saying: "This development is not at all unexpected and we are pleased to see another organisation recognising that openness and collaboration are undeniable forces that will enable the next generation of mobile devices, applications and services."
Taking Symbian out of proprietary ownership is a natural evolution for the organisation because the future of the handset OS is far more about governance than technology – the role of the handset OS is now to mediate the inter-operation of diverse technologies, content and business models seeking to converge upon the device and this simply cannot happen under traditional commercial governance."
Meanwhile the other main contender in the open handset platform stakes, the Google-backed Android, is said to be running late.
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