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Filed under: Software, Sagem, Verizon Wireless, Linux

Following a new round of partnership announcements back in February, LiMo Foundation today added 8 new members, bringing the grand total to 40 — and perhaps most notably, Verizon Wireless becomes the first American carrier to team up with the group and the Foundation’s final board member (in other words, they seem to be taking this initiative pretty seriously). Other new players include South Korea’s SK Telecom, France’s SFR, Sagem, chipmaker Infineon, and Mozilla, suggesting that there’ll be plenty of mobile Firefox support for LiMo’s nascent platform. LiMo represents the largest Linux-based threat to Android’s plans for world domination, having declare its initiative some time before Google while collecting a veritable who’s-who of world players from NTT DoCoMo to manufacturers like LG and Motorola — and with the depth of Verizon’s commitment to this, evident by its nabbing of an actual board seat, we wouldn’t be surprised to see LiMo-based products actually go beyond its Any Apps, Any Device initiative and get real on the carrier’s official lineup.

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Filed under: Nokia, RIM, Misc

Never mind Nokia’s arguments that Bochum is too expensive of a location to make phones, because RIM wholeheartedly disagrees. Sort of, anyway. Although there’s no indication that the Canadian firm is plan to start producing handsets in the downtrodden German town, it apparently did see Nokia’s move as a fabulous opportunity to hire on a whole boatload of fresh talent and has decided to open an R&D facility there. It seems that RIM had already been shopping around europ. for a place to set up camp, and the Bochum layoffs came at just the right time to catch its attention. A Nokia board member says that RIM is indeed in Bochum, but is “talking to engineers, not workers,” whatever that means; we thought engineers were workers, but this probably clearly confirms that RIM’s facility won’t be a factory.

[Via IntoMobile]

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