<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dru Lavigne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thomas Kunz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">François Lefebvre</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial: Mobile (March 2010)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">03/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/329</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open source software and hardware has become an accepted way of developing new and interesting applications in many information and communication technology domains: operating systems, databases, Web infrastructure, and applications. It's not surprising that with the increasing popularity of mobile handheld devices, users and researchers have explored the power of open approaches to providing innovative new applications and services in this domain. However, unlike personal computers and the Internet, mobile handsets were tightly controlled by mobile network operators (MNOs) who developed a vertical ecosystem by integrating the communication infrastructure, the handheld device hardware, and often the applications installed on those devices. The software and protocols running the mobile communications infrastructure and devices are often standardized by membership-only bodies, where large MNOs and manufacturers have a predominant influence. These players invest significant financial resources into shaping the industry along their vision to gain a competitive advantage. A current example is the ongoing battle about the dominant radio access technology for 4G cellular systems: LTE vs. Wimax. 

These trends have changed recently. Companies such as Google, Nokia, or Openmoko and Industry Alliances such as the Open Handset Alliance are providing the core building blocks, both in hardware as well as software, of increasingly open mobile devices. This issue of the OSBR reviews the relevant trends in the open mobile platform space from a number of perspectives. As the articles in these issue show, there is a lot of exciting ongoing work that brings the power of open source development to the mobile space. This trend is not just confined to the mobile devices as there are also efforts in the development of open mobile infrastructure elements and whole systems.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">March 2010</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network
Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for BSD Magazine and is the author of the books BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and the Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.</style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carleton University
Thomas Kunz received a double honours degree in Computer Science and Business Administration and the Dr. Ing. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is currently a Professor in Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. His research interests are primarily in the area of wireless and mobile computing. The main thrust is to facilitate the development of innovative next-generation mobile applications on resource-constraint, hand-held devices, exploring the required network architectures, network protocols, and middleware layers. He authored or co-authored close to 150 technical papers, received a number of awards, and is involved in national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Kunz is a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CRC
François Lefebvre joined the Communications Research Centre, Canada, in 1999 to lead its Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting team. Since then, he has contributed to numerous national and international standardization efforts and research and development projects. His recent work has focused on creating and developing open software building blocks for next-generation mobile broadcasting networks, devices and applications. With his team, he launched the CRC mmbTools and Openmokast open source software projects. He writes about the future of broadcasting on his blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.broadcasting20.org/&quot;&gt; Broadcasting 2.0&lt;/a&gt;. Mr. Lefebvre graduated from Laval University in Electrical Engineering where he also completed his M.A.Sc. in 1989. He pursued his carreer in Europe, mainly in Germany, where he worked for ten years as engineer in research and development laboratories and as freelance supervisor of software developments on emerging multimedia and Internet platforms.</style></custom3></record></records></xml>