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Vodafone To Launch Mobile Web Portal, Betavine

The Mobile Web isn’t just
about the Googles and Yahoos of this world muscling in to the lucrative mobile content
market. The existing mobile network operators and handset manufacturers are also busy
adjusting to the Internet, to defend their turf and just maybe get a jump on their
competitors. On 31 January Vodafone will launch a
new open source community portal, called Betavine. It will be a research and development
space, run by Vodafone Group R&D. It aims to encourage collaboration in the area of
mobile and internet communications, so they will be targeting developers and early
adopter users in the Mobile Web arena.

For example, users will be able to download and test applications, plus comment and
contribute on the forums and blogs. Developers can create projects and host applications,
plus blog and interact with their users and the Betavine community. Indeed, interaction
between developers and testers will be a key part of Betavine – Vodafone hopes it will provide them with a testing ground for the latest Mobile Web concepts and technologies.

Betavine is similar to Nokia’s open source community, Maemo, which we recently
discussed
on Read/WriteWeb. It’s good to see the traditional mobile companies
‘opening up’ a bit more in this era of Mobile Web, at least when it comes to development
and new apps. We’ll not mention walled garden general content and services for now
😉

Paul Walsh, who was involved in the portal set-up, has more details over
on the Segala blog. Paul can also hook you up with a pre-launch trial of Betavine, so if
you’re interested contact him.

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