Tag archive: Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation has signed its first major corporate partnership deal with European mobile operator Orange. Under the agreement, Orange customers in France, Span, Poland, and the UK will get co-branded access to Wikimedia Foundation content, including a specific Wikipedia channel and both mobile and Web-based widgets to pull Wikipedia content to their mobile devices or Web pages. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed,… Read More

Just ahead of the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Symbian Foundation has announced a slate of new partners signing on to support the Symbian mobile operating system…and the new announcements, at least temporarily, give Symbian a bigger slate of supporters in the mobile arena than Google's Android platform. Among the new Symbian Foundation members include technology heavyweights like Hewlett Packard and Qualcomm,… Read More

It seems as if almost everyone has used Wikipedia as a reference tool, and many of us might have found content on there we wanted to change. Submitting an edit to an entry might become easier soon, thanks to an $890,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the online encyclopedia, from the Stanton Foundation. In a statement, Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said: "Wikipedia attracts… Read More

The LiMo Foundation is a consortium intend on developing a Linux-based mobile platform that, in theory, could rival Google's much-touted Android mobile platform. Today, the foundation announced a slew of new members, including industry heavy-hitters Verizon Wireless and the Mozilla Corporation, expanding its membership to 40 companies and organizations since its launch in early 2007. “This latest group of new members… Read More

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The launch of Microsoft TV Foundation Edition in Washington will support the advanced digital cable services that Comcast offers to more than 1 million cable customers. Today marks the first majorU.S. deployment of Foundation Edition and Comcast's launch of dual-tuner digital video recording (DVR) services in Washington. With the launch of dual-tuner DVRs supported by Foundation Edition, Comcast customers can enjoy the ultimate control… Read More

Comcast agreed to adopt Microsoft TV Foundation Edition 1.7 software for rollout to as many as 5 million subscribers, with an option to raise that number at a later date. Foundation Edition 1.7 lets cable companies and some other TV providers offer an interactive programming guide, navigation tools and advanced features for capturing programs on DVRs (digital video recorders). Read more at IT World.

Today at The National Show, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's (NCTA's) Annual Convention and International Exposition, Microsoft Corp. announced Microsoft® TV Foundation Edition 1.7, the latest update of its digital cable software platform and one of the first to support the Motorola DCT6412 set-top with integrated dual-tuner digital video recording (DVR) and high definition functionality. Microsoft TV… Read More

This support is a key component of Microsoft's value-based strategy of delivering products that maximize the potential of digital television now and in the future for the cable industry. Motorola, Inc. , SeaChange Concurrent Computer Corp., MetaTV Inc., Two Way TV Ltd. and Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) Ltd. are working with Microsoft to extend the capabilities of the Microsoft TV Foundation platform. Unveiled today at The National… Read More