vnunet: Giants Develop Linux Phone Specs

“A new forum will be launched today to encourage adoption of
Linux in telephony applications. Participants including Palm OS
developer PalmSource and mobile operator France Telecom will
collaborate on a common framework for developing mobile
applications to run on the opensource platform.

“The Linux Phone Standards (Lips) forum aims to establish a
standardised platform that developers can target to build
applications and services for Linux handsets. The Lips forum will
complement efforts by other groups, such as the recently launched
Mobile Linux Initiative, which is working on the core Linux code
itself…”

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