Los Angeles - Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone App Store has now released over 10,000 applications for the device, according to a report on 148Apps.com, which tracks iPhone applications. The largest segment of applications are games (2,333), followed by entertainment (1,122), utilities (1,015), education (737) and productivity (517); some one-quarter are available free of charge. In related iPhone news, hackers have been able to boot the Linux operating system on the iPhone, the Linux on the iPhone blog reports. However, key elements such as touch-screen functionality, sound and networking are not yet supported.

Newbury, England - A group of big names in the wireless industry, including Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, have come together to form the LiMo Foundation, a non-profit that will work to jointly develop a Linux-based mobile platform.

It Was Only Yesterday...

When TDG released our Advanced Mobile Operating Systems report in February of this year 2006 - a report presenting the case as to why mobile Linux and Windows would both pick up market share at the cost of Symbian's dominance - we received quite a bit of feedback. While much of the feedback was positive, not surprisingly some of it was negative - the cost of being the first to officially offend the incumbent!