LONDON, England & TOKYO, Japan – The LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability of LiMo Platform Release 1. The LiMo Platform is the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.

LONDON, England & TOKYO, Japan – LiMo Foundation and Texas Instruments announced today the important addition of TI as the Foundation's newest Core member.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The handheld device market, already in the throes of unit decline, failed to post a seasonal sequential increase in shipments during the fourth quarter. According to IDC's Worldwide Handheld QView, vendors shipped a total of 683,004 units in the fourth quarter, marking a 53.2% decrease from the same quarter a year ago and a 6.0% decrease from the previous quarter. For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 3.0 million units worldwide, down 44.3% from the 5.5 million units shipped during all of 2006.

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its Twelfth Annual Report to Congress on the state of competition in the mobile telephone – or Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) – industry. The FCC concluded that there is effective competition in the CMRS marketplace. The report demonstrates that U.S. consumers continue to experience significant benefits – including low prices, new technologies, improved service quality, and choice among providers – from competition in the CMRS marketplace.

BARCELONA, Spain – The LiMo Foundation has unveiled the first wave of handsets using the LiMo Platform — the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Initial LiMo handsets are today confirmed by handset industry leaders including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung.

AUSTIN, Texas – Freescale is now offering support for the Linux operating system on its cellular products. Freescale's Linux cellular platform is capable of supporting any Linux Application Framework, whether it is an industry standard or an OEM’s proprietary solution.

BARCELONA, Spain – ACCESS CO. has released the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite (SDK and Tools) via a newly-created developer portal designed to provide support and services for third party Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Successfully field-tested by select ISVs since early 2007, the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite has also been productively used by developers creating mobile applications for the Orange Application Package for ACCESS Linux Platform that is part of the Orange Signature strategy intended to deliver a consistent customer experience across a variety of devices and applications.

DULLES, Va. & BARCELONA, Spain – AOL has announced the AOL Open Mobile Platform, which it plans to make available to developers this summer. The new open platform will help stimulate innovation by providing developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across all major mobile device platforms and operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. As a result, developers will be able to create applications for a wide variety of mobile devices.

BARCELONA, Spain – The Khronos Group has said that it has publicly released the final OpenKODE 1.0 specification, a royalty-free, cross-platform open standard that bundles a set of native APIs to provide increased source portability for rich media and graphics applications. Khronos is also releasing a full conformance test suite for OpenKODE 1.0 to enable conformant implementations to use the OpenKODE trademark.

HELSINKI – SYSOPENDIGIA has said that it will contribute back to open source the software the company created and modified for a 3G Linux smartphone.