Verizon Completes LiMo Foundation's Board of Directors

(Business News & Technology News, 15 May 2008)

Verizon has joined LiMo Foundation as a Core member and will fill the final seat on LiMo's board of directors. LiMo Foundation is a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. By joining, Verizon hopes to help LiMo unify the mobile industry around openness and Linux as the key enablers to lowering development costs.

"The addition of Verizon Wireless to the LiMo roster is another critical milestone in our foundation¡¯s rapid growth and market impact," says Kiyohito Nagata of NTT DoCoMo, Chairperson of LiMo Foundation. "In technical output, governance constructs and business models, LiMo lives out its belief that openness is the key to unlocking innovation to the benefit of the whole industry and mobile consumers everywhere."

Launched in January 2007 by six mobile industry leaders—Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone—LiMo was formed to deliver an open and globally consistent software platform based upon Mobile Linux for use by the whole industry to catalyze next-generation mobile consumer experiences.

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