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Motorola, NEC Corp, NTT Docomo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung
Electronics, and Vodafone Group, have announced they would collaborate to
establish an open Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets.
The companies plan to form an industry initiative by the end of the
year. Immediate plans of the group is to invite other participants from the
semiconductor and mobile phone sectors to join this group. The object of the
group is to develop standardized API specifications and architecture for mobile
phones, as well as support for source code-based reference implementations and
tools to check the compliance of application programs with the API.
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