Nokia this week launched a web site, ostdev.net, which it hopes
will bring together developers in the open source community to
develop games and other applications for set-top boxes. The mobile
phone giant is using the site, operated by Californian open source
developers CollabNet, to promote the Open Standards Terminal (OST),
a platform for home entertainment applications based on Linux and
other open source technologies.
Nokia's first OST-based product is the Media Terminal which it
describes as “an innovative infotainment device that seamlessly
combines digital video broadcast service, full internet access, and
personal video recorder (PVR) technology.”
Rickard Nelgér, Head of Product Management, Nokia Home
Communications said:
"we are convinced that openness is the way
forward. With the OST platform Nokia aims at initiating the
creation of an open standard for IP-based home entertainment. By
making source code and other tools available to these developers
all over the world we want to give maximum support to developers
and stimulate a widespread creation of applications."
Nokia plans to release the Media Terminal in Europe this summer
and then in the US.
For more information, see: www.ostdev.net
