05 August 2008
Movial Joins LiMo Foundation Movial Creative Technologies, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has joined the LiMo Foundation, the global consortium of mobile leaders dedicated to delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. "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,” commented Tomi Rauste, president of Movial Creative Technologies. Browser D-Bus Bridge, Movial's open source contribution to the Linux mobile community, translates HTML and Javascript commands to D-Bus commands (Desktop Bus). The D-Bus is also used by the LiMo Foundation for inter-process communication (IPC) between applications and services. Movial's Browser D-Bus Bridge can provide a browser-based UI for the LiMo stack and makes it possible for applications to initiate platform services, including media engines and instant messaging engines on mobile devices. Thus enabling Web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers to add browser-based User Interfaces easily, the company explained. "Movial is recognized in the industry as a leading contributor to the Linux kernel, for creating Scratchbox and for its work with Gnome Mobile and ARM," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. "We are deeply pleased to have Movial join LiMo and share its expertise and understanding of what it takes to accelerate the delivery of new and compelling mobile services. Movial's Browser D-Bus Bridge contribution to the Linux mobile community is exemplary of the spirit of LiMo members." "Movial has developed innovative products that provide an easy way to have Web technologies use local services via D-Bus," added Kerry McGuire, director of Strategic Alliances, OS and Browser Technologies, ARM. "Movial's open source contribution should enable application developers and operators to innovate and create a new range of services and applications exploiting unique features of mobile devices together with the Internet." Running on WebKit and Mozilla engines, Movial said it expects to deliver the code to the Linux mobile community within 90 days. | 
