Texas Instruments joined the LiMo foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating a "truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices". Texas Instruments is joining other industry heavy-weights on the LiMO Foundations' members list, such as founding members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, Vodafone, but also Access, McAfee, LG, AMD, ARM, Ericsson, Amsung SDS and others.

Jet Multimedia has decided to publish Huria, their Content Management System for mobile websites, under the GPL. It is based on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) stack.

All the website and documentation is currently only available in french.

The installation process is surprising: download one PHP script, put it on your webserver and access it. All this will then be done through your browser, even the download of the software.

As seen on Toolinux.

OpenMoko announced it is now a separate company of FIC, motherboard, graphics and mobile manufacturer.
OpenMoko is working on a totally open mobile phone, which currently is only available for developers. They have a core-team with high profile open source developers and could be an important player in the open mobile market, together with Google's Android platform.

Edit:Kris notified me that Harald Welte, known for his netfilter/iptable work and for gpl-violations.org has left the OpenMoko core team.

1&1 is working with Funambol to deploy a push email solution, integrating with OpenXchange, already used by 1&1.

Funambol's solution is dually licensed: client under the GPL and server under the custom HPL license for the Community Edition, and under a commercial license for the Carrier Edition. The HPL license is based on the GPL, with the precision that distribution of software as a service is the same as distribution on a physical media.

Client and server bundles, together with several SDKs, are available for download. Several community projects are also developed, with as examples connectors for Zimbra, Gmail, SugarCRM, etc...

As Funambol also provides professional support, could this be the right solution for a company looking to deploy a push email solution?

Thanks to: The Open Road

Mupe, the Multi-User Publishing Environment, is a framework to ease and optimize development of mobile client-server applications. It is open source and runs on any MIDP 2.0 phone, ie virtually all current phones supporting Java.

Mupe applications are not stand-alone: connection to the server are required, but are possible over Wifi too. If you're going over your data connection, it could be (too) expensive without a flat rate subscription....

The development environment is based on Eclipse. The application runs on the server (requires Java 5 or above), and clients specs are defined in XML.