The most widely deployed mobile virtualization solution
October 14, 2010
VMware has finally lifted the lid on their long-promised mobile virtualization platform (MVP). And, surprise, it’s a Type-2 hypervisor! This is a bit of a let-down, and has some interesting implications on what MVP can (or rather cannot) do, which I’m going to explore in a few blogs.
First a bit of background. ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on October 14 at 08:28 AM
October 05, 2010
Across the mobile ecosystem, the players are ramping up investments around 4G planning and roll out, and around LTE in particular. As 4G world quickly approaches, I see more and more debate around LTE. The promise of LTE is tantalizing, but always-on, high bandwidth mobile places new demands not just on infrastructure, ...
Posted by Karry Kleeman on October 05 at 05:54 AM
October 05, 2010
Beverly Hills Iguana - Iggy moves into the Beverly Wilshire
My husband was recently hired as the pastry chef of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, so we packed our bags and moved back to my homeland of Los Angeles. Until we get settled in our own place, the hotel was kind enough to put us and Iggy up. Check out Iggy's ...
Posted by Brenna Walters Lenoir on October 05 at 04:03 AM
September 24, 2010
Update: Check out the GigaOm news wrap-up
Sitting on industry panels can feel either like going ten rounds with Mike Tyson or singing in a choir. Sometimes you face a barrage of hard-hitting questions, pitting you against competitors, and other times you and your fellow panelists harmonize like an industry barbershop ...
Posted by Steve Subar on September 24 at 12:20 PM
September 13, 2010
Last week our partner ARM Ltd announced the ARM Cortex-A15 "Eagle", a new mobile processor architecture. This new core, and anticipated Cortex-A15 processors from Freescale, Qualcomm, Samsung, ST-E TI and other leading semiconductor suppliers, will deliver five times the performance of today's smartphone processors and ...
Posted by Steve Subar on September 13 at 03:48 AM
August 23, 2010
Hi everyone! This is Richard and I'm a summer intern for OK Labs. I recently got some time to catch up with Rob McCammon. Take a look at what he had to say!
RW: What is your role at Open Kernel Labs?
RM: I am the Vice President of Product Management. My job is to help define the products of OK Labs and to produce of a ...
Posted by Robert C. McCammon on August 23 at 02:04 AM
July 24, 2010
This blog entry originally appeared on the ARM blog at http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/meeting-the-needs-of-global-mobile-workforce-with-the-nirvana-phone/
The telecom and IT industries have for decades made much of technology convergence. Convergence of wireless and terrestrial. Convergence of voice and data. And most ...
Posted by Steve Subar on July 24 at 01:27 AM
June 22, 2010
This blog entry originally appeared on the VisionMobile blog at http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/
Imagine one phone with two personalities – one to fit your personal life, the other for business. Instead of carrying around two or more devices, you’d be able to access multiple virtual phones on a single handset.
This ...
Posted by Steve Subar on June 22 at 07:05 AM
June 03, 2010
The gap between so called feature phones and smart phones continues shrink. Features phones with their, typically, closed and proprietary operating systems have generally had an edge in terms of price by requiring fewer hardware resources and forgoing a strong separation between the baseband processing software and the ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on June 03 at 07:59 AM
May 26, 2010
OK Labs welcomes guest blogger: Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, VisionMobile
How naive! Mobile industry connoisseurs used to smirk at the notion that the mobile industry was any similar to the PC world. How can the two industries be any similar when the software, services, channels to market, operator control, ...
Posted by Andreas Constantinou on May 26 at 03:18 AM
May 19, 2010
The Spotlight series is new to the OK Labs blog. Look for more featured OK Labs employees soon!
Ram Sarabu, Senior Product Manager
AD: What is your role at Open Kernel Labs?
RS: I work as a Senior Product Manager in our Product Management department. Part of my job is to work with customers to understand their needs, ...
Posted by Alysha Daytner on May 19 at 06:28 AM
May 18, 2010
So, what is the difference? Let me explain:
Purchase decisions of 80% global mobile phone consumers today are primarily driven by affordability. In order to compete on price, companies find ways to reduce device costs by offering minimal functionality. Therefore, leaders in this market segment are low ...
Posted by Ram Sarabu on May 18 at 06:03 AM
April 29, 2010
The first five people who email blog@ok-labs.com and name five places that Iggy has visited will score an OK Labs t-shirt and their very own green iguana (he is small and travels well).
Just yesterday my Google Alerts led me to a story about Open Kernel Labs in a blog post titled, Who Says B2B Social Media Can’t Be ...
Posted by Marti Konstant on April 29 at 06:09 AM
April 17, 2010
I caught up with Rob McCammon before he heads to the Multicore Expo at ESC April 26-29. Rob's presentation, "Virtualization as the Nexus of Multicore Power Management," will be at 8:00am on April 29 as part of the Virtualization track.
AD: Rob, you're headed to ESC and Multicore Expo... what will you be ...
Posted by Alysha Daytner on April 17 at 04:19 AM
March 24, 2010
As I make my way out to International CTIA in Las Vegas, I want to highlight the importance of virtualization to the main audience for that event – Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). At CTIA you are likely to hear of virtualization as a key enabler of Cloud services and MNO offerings for corporate and personal data ...
Posted by Steve Subar on March 24 at 07:20 AM