LiPS Activities and Membership to Fold into LiMo Foundation
To support and to unify the growing momentum of Linux platforms in the global mobile market, the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum announced that its activities and membership will be folded into LiMo Foundation as of July, 2008. This pooling of efforts and resources reflects the [...]
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Mobile Linux software vendor increases investment in Asia
Chambéry, France – May 22, 2008 – Purple Labs, the leading supplier of Linux for mass-market 3G phones, announced today its further expansion into Asia with the opening of a new sales and support office in Seoul, Korea.
“With both Samsung and LGE participating in the LiMo Foundation, there [...]
French software vendor created world’s first sub-$100 3G Linux mobile phone
Chambéry, France – March 28, 2008 – Red Herring announced this week that mobile Linux software company, Purple Labs, was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East [...]
Massive interest in world’s first sub-$100 3G Linux mobile phone
Chambéry, FRANCE – March 3rd, 2008 – Purple Labs, the leading supplier of mobile Linux solutions for mass-market 3G phones, announced today the addition of Arnaud Dammert to its executive team. As vice president of sales for EMEA, Dammert will oversee the expansion of the Purple [...]
LiMo-compliant 3G feature phone exhibited at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 11th, 2008 – Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, announced today that its new Purple Magic feature phone has received LiMo Foundation(tm) certification. The 3G Linux phone is a LiMo Platform(tm) Type I device, [...]
Linux feature phone will accelerate 3G mass market penetration
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, jointly announced today the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at [...]
Gordon Tsang heads Asia Pacific team in new Beijing office
Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, announced today that it has opened a new office in Beijing, China to provide full local technical support and expand its sales opportunities throughout the region.
The Beijing office is now led by Gordon Tsang, [...]
Purple Labs to drive Linux on mass-market mobile phones
Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, announced today that it has joined the LiMo Foundation and will support the organisation’s mission to develop a world-class Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. In joining the LiMo Foundation as an Associate member, Purple [...]
Former Openwave and ShoZu executives to drive Product Development and Marketing
Chambéry, FRANCE – December 10, 2007 – Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, announced today the appointments of Olivier Bartholot to vice president of product management and Steve Langkamp to chief marketing officer. These key additions to the executive [...]
Chambéry, FRANCE – October 10th, 2007 – Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for the wireless industry, announced today the appointment of Simon Wilkinson as chief executive officer of the company.
Previously Wilkinson was founder and CEO of Magic4, a market leading provider of messaging solutions to wireless terminal manufacturers. He took Magic4 [...]
