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Alcatel-Lucent Tries to "Smart the Dumb Pipes" 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 03 2010, @10:35AM

An anonymous reader writes "At last week's Gluecon Ross Turk delivered a frank, honest talk about how Alcatel-Lucent is trying to leverage their relationships with carriers to create a single set of open APIs for developers to write applications against. The advantages being that a single set of APIs would work across multiple networks without having to translate the functional parts of the code to the many different kits available for the myriad mobile platforms. While Alcatel-Lucent is still in the early stages of development, they are looking for early adopters to help drive direction and prioritization around which carriers and which APIs are of most interest to the community via their Open API Service site."

Comment: Symbian has 49.5% ww smartphone market share (Score 4, Informative) 88

by MagicMerl on Monday July 13 2009, @02:29PM (#28680365) Attached to: Symbian Foundation Takes First Step In Open Sourcing Mobile OS

For developers looking to make money, and use a very rich set of APIs/functionality, Symbian is the way to go. Gartner recently announced that Symbian has 49.5% of ww smart phone market share (300m+ devices). The distribution channel potential is there for developers to take advantage of now - not some unknown time in the future. Note that Symbian also has Runtime dev environments for Web, Python, and Adobe Flash Lite - who else has that?

Symbian Foundation Takes First Step In Open Sourcing Mobile OS 88

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 13 2009, @01:31PM
from the many-options-to-play-with dept.

readthemall writes to let us know that the Symbian Foundation has released the first of several packages in their plan to open source the entire Symbian mobile OS. "On Wednesday, Symbian made available its first package covered by the EPL, the OS Security Package, according to Symbian developer Craig Heath. 'The OS Security Package source code is now available under the EPL, and it is the very first package to be officially moved from the closed Symbian Foundation License (SFL) to... the EPL,' Heath wrote in a blog post. Heath said the EPL would allow the security package to bypass export regulations in the UK, where the Symbian code is legally based."

Comment: Context and Relvancy (Score 1) 158

by MagicMerl on Monday February 05 2007, @01:32PM (#17891682) Attached to: Finding New Code

For those who have not yet used Krugle, check out a posting by Justin Royce a while back - his review is fairly complete. (http://webtekconcepts.com/2006/11/30/krugle-goes- grassroots/) Search engines ultimately are judged on the accuracy and relevancy of their results. Krugle parses the code to understand the context. The relevancy is based on whether the result is in a function call or class def vs comments etc, and Krugle leverages project meta data such as number of committers and frequency of project updates to accurately prioritize search results.