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What's the Open Mobile Alliance?
What happened to the WAP Forum?
See below for the answers...
| Open Mobile Alliance |
The Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. has been established by the
consolidation of the WAP Forum and the Open Mobile Architecture
Initiative. The new Open Mobile Alliance is a group of companies and
organizations, with a commitment to a shared set of principles, who
have come together to drive the growth of the mobile industry. It
intends to grow the market for the entire industry by removing
barriers to interoperability and supporting a seamless and
easy-to-use mobile experience for end users.
The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to grow the market for
the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global user
adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability while
allowing businesses to compete through innovation and
differentiation.
The Open Mobile Alliance encourages competition through
innovation and differentiation, while ensuring the interoperability
of mobile service through the entire value chain. The supporters of
the Open Mobile Alliance recognize the significant industry benefits
of creating a standards organization that will included all elements
of the wireless value chain, and contribute to timely and efficient
introduction of services and applications to the market. |
| Qualcomm |
Qualcomm Joins Open Mobile Alliance Board of Directors to
Promote Open Standards and Foster Worldwide Growth of Wireless Data
Applications and Services (8/02) Qualcomm Incorporated announces
it has become a sponsor member of the new global organization, the
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and has joined the OMA board of
directors. The OMA delivers open standards for the mobile industry,
helping to create interoperable services that work across countries,
operators and mobile terminals, and are driven by users' needs.
QUALCOMM has joined the organization to show its support to the
mobile community in this endeavor and to encourage further
development and adoption of advanced wireless data applications and
services. |
| Australian IT |
WAP
Forum superseded (6/02) Almost 200 technology companies have
signed on to the latest industry attempt to forge a universal
wireless internet standard for all mobile phones and PDAs. The Open
Mobile Alliance, formally announced yesterday, will replace the WAP
Forum, whose Wireless Application Protocol is the most widely used
platform for web browsers on mobile phones, but has fallen short of
expectations. Besides names like Motorola, Nokia and Vodafone,
perhaps the most notable member of the new group is Microsoft, which
in the past has shunned many industry attempts at wireless unity.
NTT DoCoMo, which provides the wildly popular i-mode cellular
service in Japan, is also joining the consortium. |
| CNet News.com |
Mobile
phone alliance marches ahead (11/02) A wireless alliance of
companies led by Microsoft and Nokia is continuing to absorb smaller
industry groups and expects to garner even more support by year's
end. The Open Mobile Alliance, which promotes standard ways for cell
phones to exchange data, announced it recently added nonprofit group
Mobile Wireless Internet Forum to its organization. Members of the
forum include Intel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. The Mobile
Games Interoperability Forum (MGIF) also intends to join the
alliance, said Mike Wehrs, director of technology and standards for
Microsoft's mobility group. Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens
formed MGIF to promote standards for offering games over wireless
phones. Game maker THQ is among the 17 members of MGIF. |
| The Register |
World+dog
join mobile standards army (6/02) The Open Mobile Alliance
kicked off yesterday with 200 members drawn from the great, the good
and the occasional evil empire. Pick a big tech company with an
interest in the mobile sector and it's almost certainly a member:
Nokia, Motorola, Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone etc. Microsoft's
membership is instructive: it shows how keen it is to participate in
the 3G world, even though there is potential conflict over the
proprietary operating system it wants handset operators to adopt.
Nokia, the driving force behind the creation of the OMA, is by
contrast, is a recent convert, to 'open' systems for handsets. How
will the OMA resolve the competing claims of these two giants? Maybe
it doesn't have to - the OMA is a Broad Church, and there's nothing
wrong with that, surely? |
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