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.
Two of the driving forces behind the Linux push into the mobile devices market have formalised an agreement to boost the global growth of mobile Linux phones and devices.
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Linux Phone Standards Forum
(LiPS) say they will collaborate to reduce fragmentation in the mobile
space and provide the industry with open, flexible and customizable
Linux-based solutions to increase revenue opportunities. OSDL focuses
on the kernel and operating system levels, and LiPS works on
applications and service enabler layers.
"The success of mobile Linux requires a cross-organizational effort
without duplication of efforts by our members and other industry
participants," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "Collaboration among
vendors, users, developers and the organizations that support the goals
of these constituencies will produce a full-functioning mobile Linux
platform capable of increasing its competitive position vis-a-vis other
mobile OS providers."
According to some market analysts, Linux marketshare with exceed the popular Symbian OS-based smartphones by 2010.
"No one questions that Linux and its applications can deliver more
capable mobile devices, increase flexibility, speed time-to-market and
lower costs," said Haila Wang, President for LiPS. "It's a matter of
how we get there. Collaboration and cooperation are key to avoid market
fragmentation, and LiPS is working with OSDL and other organizations
and companies to build consistent, complementary specifications for
making open source software a key component in mobile devices."
"Access/PalmSource has been a strong supporter of both LiPS and OSDL,"
said Mike Kelley, senior vice president of engineering at
Access/PalmSource. "We believe that Linux has a great future in the
mobile space. Reducing fragmentation to work together towards a common
platform will accelerate Linux adoption even further. Cooperation
between OSDL and LiPS is an important step in this direction."
OSDL announced its Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI) in October 2005 with an emphasis on kernel-level gap analysis and requirements.
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is a consortium of industry
players formed to standardize the Linux-based services and Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) that most directly influence the
development, deployment and interoperability of applications and
user-level services.
The founding members of the LiPS Forum are ARM Ltd, Cellon
International, Esmertec, France Telecom, Orange, FSM Labs, Huawei
Technologies, Jaluna, MIZI Research, Inc., MontaVista Software, Inc.,
Open-Plug and PalmSource, Inc.
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