4 August 2008 No Comment

Movial Corporation, a leading company in the end-to-end IP communications market, has joined the LiMo Foundation. LiMo Foundation is responsible for creating the LiMo platform, the Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Movial is the latest in a string of companies that have announced their membership in the LiMo Foundation.

In addition to announcing its membership in the LiMo Foundation, Movial also announced that it is releasing Browser D-Bus Bridge to the Open Source community. Browser D-Bus Bridge “translates HTML and Javascript commands to D-Bus commands (Desktop Bus)”, and it’s used by the LiMo Foundation for “inter-process communication (IPC) between applications and services”.

Browser D-Bus Bridge provides a “browser-based UI for the LiMo stack and makes it possible for applications to initiate platform services, like media engines and instant messaging engines on mobile devices enabling Web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers to add browser-based User Interfaces easily”.

Excerpt from Movial’s announcement:

Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, today announced it has joined LiMo Foundation, the global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. As part of its commitment to the Linux mobile community, Movial has also unveiled it is open sourcing an innovative technology, Browser D-Bus Bridge, that enables Web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers for the first time ever, to easily create extremely capable User Interfaces (UI) that transform Web widgets into seamless user driven mobile applications providing new, value-added and differentiated services and superior user experiences.

“Movial is proud to participate in LiMo and contribute to the soaring success of the LiMo platform and the continued growth of the Linux mobile community,” said Tomi Rauste, president of Movial Creative Technologies. “The goals of LiMo and those of Movial are in lock step – to reduce complexity, development costs and fragmentation in the market while providing a richer mobile ecosystem through the contributions of leading industry partners.”

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