The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS Forum) is a consortium of a group of companies to create standards for the use of

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s. The main goal of the LiPS Forum is to create

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s (APIs) that will allow developers to build applications to inter-operate across Linux

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s made by all manufacturers. Founding members include

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, Cellon,

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, FSM Labs,

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, Jaluna, MIZI Research,

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and

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(in March 2007, PalmSource changed its name to that of its parent company, Access Inc). Newer members include

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

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, and Movial Oy. British Telecom joined the LiPS Forum in September 2007. In September 2007, the LiPS forum announced that it was going to align its efforts with those of the

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.LiPS synchs with OMA on mobile Linux
''Register'' Developer, October 1, 2007 In June 2008, the LiPS forum announced that it would join with the

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and thereby cease to exist as a separate organization.

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20081220113941/http://lipsforum.org/ {{business-org-stub Linux organizations Mobile phone standards Mobile Linux

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