Podcast - 9th January 2013
We have a particularly packed programme this week as we catch up with all the biggest mobile industry news stories since Christmas.
There's opinion on everything from the UK 4G auction to the current CES show and from open-source smartphones to wireless phone charging in cars.
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Time to catch up with everything mobile
Mark Bridge writes:
Happy New Year! It’s been three weeks since our last newsletter and a fortnight since our podcast of mobile predictions for 2013, so there’s plenty to catch up with.
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Canonical, the company that supports open-source PC operating system Ubuntu, has announced a mobile version of the Ubuntu platform.
The new interface will be available to network operators, manufacturers and chip makers.
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ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have formed a not-for-profit software engineering company called Linaro. It plans to make Linux-based development faster and easier, with a focus on ARM chips.
The new partnership is committed to investing in open source projects that can be used by Linux-based distributions, such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS. Its software and tools will be available for a variety of devices that utilise semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs), including smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, automotive entertainment and enterprise equipment.
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