The Web is the open computing platform for your PC and your mobile phone too. Web browsers typically do not yet support all the native features of your mobile phone, so typically you are unable use your GPS device, use Bluetooth or make a call from a Web application.
There is a huge demand for location aware applications, to supply you services based on your location from your mobile device.
In Japan there are already methods (APIs) to access for example Geolocation. Between Docomo and KDDI services their inconsistent approaches neither fully use Javascript or the wider Web platform. Elsewhere Google want you to write a non-Web Dalvik applications and Apple want developers to learn Objective-C.
This limits your exciting location based service use cases to costly non-Web applications. WebVM supports the open Web platform by implementing emerging W3C standards such as the Geolocation interface.
WebVM is a portable browser plugin (like Abobe Flash or Google Gears), deployed as an extra component to the browser. WebVM must be embedded at manufacture to provide a functional Web experience to rival that of native applications. WebVM abstracts away differences between NPAPI (WebKit) & ActiveX (Internet Explorer) browser interfaces.
WebVM is able to securely provide devices implemented in either Java (JBlend) or native C/C++ modules as a Javascript scriptable object for Web developers. WebVM incorporates a security framework supporting policies based on open standards.
Continue evolving Web applications that grow to use new Web standards based functionality provided portably and securely by WebVM. Keeping your development costs down, whilst delivering better value to your customers.
OMTP BONDI, an industry collaboration defining a secure operating environment and a set of open device interfaces so that Web applications can be enriched with access to camera, contact and calendar data, local connectivity and messaging services and more.
Aplix Corporation has been instrumental in the formulation of this standard, and the WebVM technology has been selected as the core of the BONDI Reference Implementation (RI) and the LiMo BONDI SDK.
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