Mobile Software: LiMo Foundation Selects Azingo As Core Technology Provider For Its Common Integration Environment
Azingo, formerly Celunite, developer of a next-generation mobile software platform based on Linux and other open source innovations, announced recently at CES that its technology has been selected by the LiMo Foundation as core components of its Common Integration Environment (CIE). The CIE will be used by the industry's leading handset manufacturers to efficiently develop and test future releases of the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.
Included in the LiMo Foundation's CIE are Azingo's software phone emulator, testing and bug tracking tools, software management tools and Azingo's reference mobile phone applications that use the LiMo platform's application programming interfaces (APIs). Azingo's technology will improve LiMo members' ability to eliminate redundant and unnecessary development while reducing fragmentation in the Linux mobile handset market.
"LiMo selected Azingo because its technology is ideally suited to managing, integrating and testing an advanced mobile phone platform comprised of software contributed from a global ecosystem of mobile phone manufacturers and the open source community," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. "All future contributors to LiMo's mobile phone platform will use our common integration environment powered by Azingo's technology."
"We are honored that the industry's leading operators and handset manufacturers have chosen to place their trust in us," said Mahesh Veerina, CEO of Azingo. "We're pleased to have our technology play such a central role in the future development of the industry's next-generation of mobile phones."
The LiMo Foundation's Common Integration Environment will be implemented in 2008 among its members. The CIE will be used by LiMo's platform integration team and by each member's engineering team to integrate and validate future software releases, maximizing collaboration, eliminating redundant integration efforts and shortening platform release schedules.
The LiMo Foundation was founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to benefit the mobile industry by lowering development costs, increasing flexibility and supporting a richer mobile ecosystem – all of which contribute to the group's ultimate objective of creating compelling, differentiated and enhanced consumer experiences. Azingo is a core member of the LiMo Foundation.
About Azingo
Azingo, formerly Celunite, is a leading provider of open mobile phone software that delivers Internet-enabled, rich user experiences to entertain, inform and enrich the lives of mobile users worldwide. Azingo uniquely offers a one-stop solution for designing and commercializing new mobile phone products, selling its next generation Linux platform together with comprehensive engineering services that significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for chipset manufacturers, handset manufacturers, integrators and operators. Azingo is privately-held with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Visit www.azingo.com.
SOURCE: Azingo