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    Android vs. LiMo: Whats the difference?

    http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/15/android-vs-limo-whats-t...
    107 days ago in CrunchGear · Authority: 3,747

    With LiMos recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Googles competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to

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    جنگ پلتفرم ها- پیروز میدان، آزادی است!

    http://cybertux.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/war-on-platforms-fo...
    25 days ago in LifE iN GnU · Authority: 31

    جنگ آینده ی دنیای موبایل، نه جنگ سخت افزارها که مبارزه ی سخت و هیجان انگیز پلتفرم ها خواهد بود. دنیای ارتباطات به سمتی حرکت میکند که روزی آدمی بتواند تمام نیازهای روزمره اش را به یک گوشی کوچک هوشمند اما همه کاره منتقل کند. به همین جهت دنیای آینده بیش از آنکه در تسخیر لپتاپ ها باشد، در اختیار گوشی ها هوشمند است. اما در حال حاضر در این صنعت نرم افزاری چه خبر است؟ دیدیم که نوکیا اعلام کرد که سیمبین را به صورت اوپن سورس عرضه خواهد کرد. هفته ی گذشته هم خبری منتشر شد مبنی بر ادغام   Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum  و LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation از آن طرف به طور حتم در مورد پلتفرم جدید اندروید- متعلق به شرکت لابد معظم گوگل!- شنیده اید. نکته ی جالب اما این است که LIMO و Android هر دو مبتنی بر لینوکس بوده و سیمبین هم اوپن سورس شده. اینها را بگذارید کنار دو پلتفرم بسته ی دیگر یعنی ویندوز موبایل و مک آیفون. به نظر شما آینده از آن کدام است؟ اندروید گوگل مبتنی بر جاوا(شک دارم!) بوده و پشتیبانی ۳۳ شرکت بزرگ علاوه بر گوگل را به دنبال خود دارد. تخمین زده می شود که در انتهای سال جاری میلادی نخستین گوشی با این پلتفرم ساخته شده و به بازار عرضه شود. همینطور شرکت HTC که حتما معرف حضور هست؟ این شرکت در حال تدارک برای استفاده از اندروید در سال جاری! بوده و شرکت LG نیز برای سال ۲۰۰۹ خود را اماده میکند. به این لیست، شرکت های Motorola و Samsung را هم اضافه کنید. نرم افزارهای LIMO نیز توسط زبان C++ /C نوشته شده و توسط تقریبا ۴۰ شرکت پشتیبانی میشود.یکی از معروف ترین گوشی های دارای این پلتفرم، گوشی زیبای روکر E8 موتورولاست.شرکت هایی چون LG و Panasonic و NEC هم از این پلتفرم استفاده کرده اند. در مورد ویندوز موبایل، من واقعا شک دارم به اینکه آینده ای داشته باشه مگر اوپن سورس شدن و یا حتی مثل مک آیفون، دادن آزادی برای گسترش نرم افزارها. در حقیقت آیفون به نوعی آزادی کنترل شده و محدود رو برای گسترش پلتفرم به صورت بیرونی استفاده کرده در حالی که ویندوز موبایل حتی از این آزادی ولو ناقص هم دریغ کرده! شاید لفظ اکوسیستم برای آيفون رو شنیده باشید. آیا یک اکوسیستم نیمه باز(با اغراق البته) قادر به رقابت با اکوسیستم هایی به شدت باز و گسترده همچون اندروید و سیمبین خواهد بود؟ براستی جو کنونی(هجوم به سمت آیفون) ناشی از نوعی تبلیغات گسترده نیست؟ تبلیغاتی که القای حس تک بودن گوشی را به ذهن مخاطب القا میکند؟ آیا آزادی ناقص میتواند یک اکوسیستم بزرگ خلق کند؟ اگر خلق کرد آیا این اکوسیستم مصنوعی نیست؟ حرف من این است: اصولا هر پدیده ای چه سیاسی و چه اجتماعی و حتی علمی و تکنولوژیکی و … که با ذات بشر یعنی آزادی در تضاد باشد و یا بخواهد بر سرش کلاه بگذارد، به نظر من شکست خورده است اگرچه مدتی به ظاهر موفق باشد! اطلاعات بیشتر در موتورهای جستجوی وب. سرچ کنید لطفا!!! شعار ما:جامعه ی آزاد، نرم افزار آزاد Tags: limo, لینوکس, موبایل, موتورولا, آیفون, اندروید, سیمبین

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    جنگ پلتفرم ها- پیروز میدان، آزادی است!

    http://cybertux.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/war-on-platforms-fo...
    25 days ago in LifE iN GnU · Authority: 31

    جنگ آینده ی دنیای موبایل، نه جنگ سخت افزارها که مبارزه ی سخت و هیجان انگیز پلتفرم ها خواهد بود. دنیای ارتباطات به سمتی حرکت میکند که روزی آدمی بتواند تمام نیازهای روزمره اش را به یک گوشی کوچک هوشمند اما همه کاره منتقل کند. به همین جهت دنیای آینده بیش از آنکه در تسخیر لپتاپ ها باشد، در اختیار گوشی ها هوشمند است. اما در حال حاضر در این صنعت نرم افزاری چه خبر است؟ دیدیم که نوکیا اعلام کرد که سیمبین را به صورت اوپن سورس عرضه خواهد کرد. هفته ی گذشته هم خبری منتشر شد مبنی بر ادغام   Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum  و LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation از آن طرف به طور حتم در مورد پلتفرم جدید اندروید- متعلق به شرکت لابد معظم گوگل!- شنیده اید. نکته ی جالب اما این است که LIMO و Android هر دو مبتنی بر لینوکس بوده و سیمبین هم اوپن سورس شده. اینها را بگذارید کنار دو پلتفرم بسته ی دیگر یعنی ویندوز موبایل و مک آیفون. به نظر شما آینده از آن کدام است؟ اندروید گوگل مبتنی بر جاوا(شک دارم!) بوده و پشتیبانی ۳۳ شرکت بزرگ علاوه بر گوگل را به دنبال خود دارد. تخمین زده می شود که در انتهای سال جاری میلادی نخستین گوشی با این پلتفرم ساخته شده و به بازار عرضه شود. همینطور شرکت HTC که حتما معرف حضور هست؟ این شرکت در حال تدارک برای استفاده از اندروید در سال جاری! بوده و شرکت LG نیز برای سال ۲۰۰۹ خود را اماده میکند. به این لیست، شرکت های Motorola و Samsung را هم اضافه کنید. نرم افزارهای LIMO نیز توسط زبان C++ /C نوشته شده و توسط تقریبا ۴۰ شرکت پشتیبانی میشود.یکی از معروف ترین گوشی های دارای این پلتفرم، گوشی زیبای روکر E8 موتورولاست.شرکت هایی چون LG و Panasonic و NEC هم از این پلتفرم استفاده کرده اند. در مورد ویندوز موبایل، من واقعا شک دارم به اینکه آینده ای داشته باشه مگر اوپن سورس شدن و یا حتی مثل مک آیفون، دادن آزادی برای گسترش نرم افزارها. در حقیقت آیفون به نوعی آزادی کنترل شده و محدود رو برای گسترش پلتفرم به صورت بیرونی استفاده کرده در حالی که ویندوز موبایل حتی از این آزادی ولو ناقص هم دریغ کرده! شاید لفظ اکوسیستم برای آيفون رو شنیده باشید. آیا یک اکوسیستم نیمه باز(با اغراق البته) قادر به رقابت با اکوسیستم هایی به شدت باز و گسترده همچون اندروید و سیمبین خواهد بود؟ براستی جو کنونی(هجوم به سمت آیفون) ناشی از نوعی تبلیغات گسترده نیست؟ تبلیغاتی که القای حس تک بودن گوشی را به ذهن مخاطب القا میکند؟ آیا آزادی ناقص میتواند یک اکوسیستم بزرگ خلق کند؟ اگر خلق کرد آیا این اکوسیستم مصنوعی نیست؟ حرف من این است: اصولا هر پدیده ای چه سیاسی و چه اجتماعی و حتی علمی و تکنولوژیکی و … که با ذات بشر یعنی آزادی در تضاد باشد و یا بخواهد بر سرش کلاه بگذارد، به نظر من شکست خورده است اگرچه مدتی به ظاهر موفق باشد! اطلاعات بیشتر در موتورهای جستجوی وب. سرچ کنید لطفا!!! شعار ما:جامعه ی آزاد، نرم افزار آزاد

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    Moto E2

    http://uthz.com/2008/05/21/moto-e2/
    44 days ago in Xun’s blog · No authority yet

    被导师分配去做一个嵌入式视频压缩的项目，板子还没到所以就先折腾一下我的E2了，之前就是因为看中它有一颗Linux的心才买的。 用usbnet模式连上电脑后，E2就完全是一个Linux server了。 看了一下cpu信息：Intel XScale-PXA27x 貌似是ARM9级别的吧，很好很强大。硬件平台是Motorola Ezx Platform，Google了一下，找到这个很强大的网站http://www.openezx.org/，以及E2专属的http://www.e2mod.com/，和需要俄文的http://motofan.ru/,才知道以前从it168下的那些刷机包其实都是LiMo体系的Linux操作系统，一直以为是Debian呢，还有一篇文章把LiMo和最近很火的Android做了一下比较http://mobilecrunch.com/2008/05/14/android-vs-limo-whats-the-difference/，LiMo可以用C++写Native的程序，Android用的则是Java，并且用Dalvik VM代替了JVM。我不喜欢Java但是Android有Google这个后台，看上去更有前途一些。恩，发现了一件很有趣的事情，PC以外的程序世界是怎么样的呢。

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    The Open Mobile Future

    http://bdjnk.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-open-mobile-future...
    52 days ago in The End User Rant · Authority: 2

    Recently the mobile phone market has undergone a radical transformation with an explosion of open source initiatives and projects. Here is a brief description of some of them. Openmoko Their product is the Neo FreeRunner phone running the Openmoko software platform, and it is by far the most ‘open’ of all the mobile projects. Not only is the software totally open source and completely customizable, the CAD files for the physical phone are avaliable as well. Unfortunately this phone is really only for the uber geek, since its primary value is in customizability and openness. If those aren’t your main concerns, you can get a lot more for less. Update: The Neo FreeRunner has sold out in less then a week! But more are on the way. Read about it here. Android Created by Google for the Open Handset Alliance, Android provides what Google calls a complete mobile platform. This means that it comes with all the software needed for a mobile phone, from the kernel to the core libraries to the basic applications. In addition to the basic Android system, the are already quite a few third party applications built, due to Google releasing the SDK early and then running the developer challange. You can find many of these early applications at helloandroid, and if you want help building you own you can visit anddev. Aside from the current lack of actual phones, the biggest problem with Android is their implementation of Java. Instead of sticking to a Java standard, which would have allowed for possible cross-compatibility with many existing applications, they went and created their own virtual machine called Dalvik. For the reason see this article. LiMo Foundation As opposed to Android, the LiMo Platform does not come with any applications whatsoever. Instead, each handset manufacturer is responsible for creating all their own applications, from the most basic onward. This means that the software on LiMo phones from different manufacturers will be unique in appearance and even function. While there is currently no SDK for the LiMo Platform, the APIs are avaliable and well documented, and the SDK is slated to come out late 2008. There are also about a dozen phones already avaliable running the LiMo Platform. The main issue that the LiMo Foundation has is a lack of a public following and hype. While Android and Openmoko are leveraging the power of community, LiMo seems to be relying solely on the will and desire of the Foundation’s companies to use LiMo for purely technical reason. In other words, no one is clamoring for LiMo and very few third parties are writing software for it. Symbian Foundation After all the other open source excitment, Nokia bought Symbian and announced the new Foundation which would set it free. Despite the publicity stunt feeling this gives me, most tech news sites are at the least hopeful about the new Symbian Foundation. Because I don’t really know all the details, I am just going to link to some of the more informative news articles. First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010 (zdnet). Link. Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS (linux.com). Link. Other Important Articles Android vs LiMo: What’s the difference? Link. Crossing the chasm with Android: Can we view disruptive initiatives like Android in the context of the existing value chain? (This is a detailed and slightly hard to read analysis of the mobile market and how android might affect change). Link.

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    Is Linux about to displace Windows Mobile?

    http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2008/06/16/is-linux-a...
    74 days ago in RADVISION VoIP Survivor blog · Authority: 20

    Is Linux about to displace Windows Mobile? By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 16th, 2008 | Filed under Clients Windows Mobile has about 12% market share in the mobile handsets market worldwide. In the past several months a trend has started to show - the strength of Windows Mobile over Linux distributions. The migration to Linux In the past several years, there were two main handset platforms for smart phones: Symbian and Windows Mobile. While Symbian enjoyed a large market share, Windows Mobile was starting to gain ground - especially because it was not owned by a handset vendor (Nokia owns 47.9% of Symbian). Linux was always around, but was never interesting enough. During the Asia road show I attended last month, it became obvious to me that Linux is set to displace Windows Mobile. Handset ODM vendors are still developing and investing heavily in Windows Mobile based handsets - this can be seen by Microsoft’s expectations of 50% growth annually. On the other hand, ODMs are starting to show roadmaps based around Linux - simply because their customers, who are the handset brand vendors, are starting to look for such handsets. The reason is probably related to royalty costs of the operating system, but also to the emergence of stable mobile Linux platforms such as Android OS and LiMo. Even Nokia, who uses Symbian in most of its handsets, has started using Linux in their N800 platform and even purchased Trolltech, who provide the well-known Qtopia platform. What are the challenges for handset vendors moving to Linux? The move to Linux is not an easy one. It is also a different kind of a challenge than other platforms. On Symbian, the challenge is usually one of learning a new way to work with an operating system which is drastically different than Windows and Linux - to the point of having (crippled) C++ API set. On Windows Mobile, the challenge is integrating the Phone Canvas UI technology. For Linux the challenge is quite different - selecting the phone distribution/middleware. To date, there are several different Linux based distributions which are positioned as mobile handset ones: LiMo Google Android OS Trolltech Qtopia MontaVista Linux VxWorksWindRiver Linux More? Each one is different in the types of services it provides “out of the box” and in the types of interfaces these services have. Android, as an example, has a Java based UI, while MontaVista comes with nothing that is handset-specific. MobileCrunch posted a good comparison between LiMo and Android - I suggest reading it. When a handset vendor selects a distribution, this will affect his software architecture - not only for the UI but also for the multimedia system integration. This means that a handset ODM will need to select one Linux platform and stick to it for his customers - switching from LiMo to Android, for example, will require additional investment which doesn’t exist when using Windows Mobile for several customers. This variance between distributions is going to be tricky for vendors. Those who select the wrong distribution will lose the market. Tags: Android OS, handsets, LiMo, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, odm, Operating system, Symbian, Windows Mobile

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    links for 2008-06-03

    http://userfirstweb.com/271/links-for-2008-06-03/
    87 days ago in User First Web · Authority: 19

    Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library A comprehensive set of stencils. Great stuff. (tags: yui stencils omnigraffle ia design informationarchitecture designpatterns) Ajaxian » Flipping out over Safari Using css transformations to flip web page (tags: safari css transformations bookmarklet javascript) MobileCrunch » Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference? Good breakdown of the differences (tags: android limo mobile linux opensource comparison os) Preparing your iPhone for resale - iPhone Atlas For those ready to sell as soon as they can get the upcoming 3G version (tags: iphone security mobile) Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. (tags: safari webkit javascript performance) CSS Properties Index – Jens Meiert A continuously updated list of all CSS properties: (tags: css cheatsheet properties syntax) SkyBlueCanvas - The Lightweight CMS SkyBlueCanvas is designed specifically for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower. (tags: cms) Drupal Code Search (tags: drupal search searchengine) New feature: Automatically add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaigns - Campaign Monitor Blog Hook campaignmonitor up to google analytics (tags: campaignmonitor google analytics email htmlemail) Amazon TextBuyIt search and buy amazon products via sms (tags: sms amazon mobile paymetns) Mobile Opportunity: Announcing a new survey of iPhone users iPhone demographics (tags: iphone mobile statistics surveys) Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: A Story Behind a Photograph Story behind one of my favorite Thomas Hawk’s photos (tags: photography portland thomashawk) GridFox - The Grid Layout Firefox Extension » GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website (tags: grids css design) Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Introducing CSS Gradients WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients. (tags: gradients webkit css safari design) prettyPhoto - jQuery lightbox clone - by Stephane Caron (tags: jquery lightbox design photography gallery)

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    VoIP Survivor

    http://voipsite.blogspot.com/2008/06/voip-survivor.html
    88 days ago in VoIP · Authority: 3

    h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:1em; } table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active { color:#000099; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; } img {border:none;} VoIP Survivor Android OS is as far from Linux as Symbian is Posted: 02 Jun 2008 06:17 AM CDT MobileCrunch recently compared Android OS with LiMo. Both are viewed as Linux-based platforms for handsets. However, I think they missed a crucial point - Android OS is simply not Linux.I’d like to first fix the comparison table on MobileCrunch’s post based on the interesting comments found in that specific post. Here is a list to summarize the differences: An SDK will be available in LiMo “soon”. Probably later on this year. With Android having one, I am sure LiMo members are working in this direction as well. Apps in Java. This is probably a sad story on behalf of Android. As there is no C/C++ API’s to talk about and a “Java-like” infrastructure is what exists on Android with a new UI framework, it is going to be hard for developers to use. Handset support was missing. While some of the Android’s OHA members are handset vendors, to date only HTC committed to the platform. With LiMo, there are a lot more vendors. The reason for that is simply because they view LiMo Foundation as more open than OHA. Of all these, there is one that stands out the most - the Java part. Linux is a great platform. Applications in Linux are written in a myriad of languages, but at the heart of it there is C/C++ code. This includes the many C system calls in Linux as well as a very rich infrastructure of libraries and development tools - all of which are simply inaccessible to Android developers. Unless Android will provide access to the C/C++ level, it will not matter if it is written on top of Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian or even Commodore. As the operating system and its ecosystem is buried deep inside Android - who will really care? It doesn’t matter if Java is faster or slower, or even if it’s J2EE, J2ME or Google’s Java flavor - it is simply not Linux. Starting to develop on Android is going to be similar to migrating to Symbian. You start by relearning everything you already know just to write your applications. This is not a good starting point for a new platform. The only reason why Android may succeed is due to the strength of Google. You are subscribed to email updates from VoIP Survivor To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner Inbox too full? Subscribe to the feed version of VoIP Survivor in a feed reader. If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: VoIP Survivor, c/o FeedBurner, 20 W Kinzie, 9th Floor, Chicago IL USA 60610

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    Android OS is as far from Linux as Symbian is

    http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2008/06/02/android-os...
    88 days ago in RADVISION VoIP Survivor blog · Authority: 20

    Android OS is as far from Linux as Symbian is By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Clients MobileCrunch recently compared Android OS with LiMo. Both are viewed as Linux-based platforms for handsets. However, I think they missed a crucial point - Android OS is simply not Linux.I’d like to first fix the comparison table on MobileCrunch’s post based on the interesting comments found in that specific post. Here is a list to summarize the differences: An SDK will be available in LiMo “soon”. Probably later on this year. With Android having one, I am sure LiMo members are working in this direction as well. Apps in Java. This is probably a sad story on behalf of Android. As there is no C/C++ API’s to talk about and a “Java-like” infrastructure is what exists on Android with a new UI framework, it is going to be hard for developers to use. Handset support was missing. While some of the Android’s OHA members are handset vendors, to date only HTC committed to the platform. With LiMo, there are a lot more vendors. The reason for that is simply because they view LiMo Foundation as more open than OHA. Of all these, there is one that stands out the most - the Java part. Linux is a great platform. Applications in Linux are written in a myriad of languages, but at the heart of it there is C/C++ code. This includes the many C system calls in Linux as well as a very rich infrastructure of libraries and development tools - all of which are simply inaccessible to Android developers. Unless Android will provide access to the C/C++ level, it will not matter if it is written on top of Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian or even Commodore. As the operating system and its ecosystem is buried deep inside Android - who will really care? It doesn’t matter if Java is faster or slower, or even if it’s J2EE, J2ME or Google’s Java flavor - it is simply not Linux. Starting to develop on Android is going to be similar to migrating to Symbian. You start by relearning everything you already know just to write your applications. This is not a good starting point for a new platform. The only reason why Android may succeed is due to the strength of Google. Tags: Android OS, C, development, handsets, Java, LiMo, Linux, Mobile, Operating system, SDK, Symbian, Windows Mobile

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