QualComm Launches New Open Source Project
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated announced yesterday the launch of their AllJoyn™ open source project — a peer-to-peer technology framework enabling ad-hoc, proximity-based, device-to-device communication without the use of an intermediary server.
“QuIC is excited to launch the AllJoyn open source project with the hope that it will drive innovation and creativity by empowering developers and device manufacturers to create new types of user experiences that expand the use of peer-to-peer technology beyond just traditional wireless handsets,” said Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. in a press release.
In addition to maintaining AllJoyn, QuIC contributes to projects including Android™, Chromium™, Linux™, Webkit and MeeGo™, all with the goal of enabling the faster advancement of the wireless industry as a whole.
The AllJoyn website states, “we believe a new and compelling set of applications and services will emerge. Proximity-based communication between consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, PC, smartbooks, laptops etc. will explode. The device ecosystem and consumers will all win.”
It’s another perfect example of a quote from an interesting presentation given by creative director Thomas Sutton, speaking on Open Innovation. “Don’t build anything more than you have to. Let others build on top of your product,” said Sutton, whose presentation focused on moving away from relying on tests and techniques to research and define exact consumer needs, instead cultivating empty spaces where people can innovate for themselves in a guided yet unconstrained process.
AllJoyn presents developers with a potentially large addressable device ecosystem and hopes to create an open source community of developers, reviewers, contributors and device manufacturers. Those who would like to be among the first to participate in the AllJoyn project can get started on their site.
Reader Comments
You guys did a great job with the presentation and I got a lot out of it. I'm still cuuoirs how you convinced the powers that be that moving from the free version to the paid version was the right decision. Do you have a business case doc that you can share? Something that we could leverage (nice way of saying steal) within our org to help us with our own biz case?
Posted by Roman on December 3, 2012
I am simply amazed by all the new technologies and creativity by individuals. This seems pretty cool.
We live in a day of so much possibility with our technology one must be wise in which ones they go with.
Posted by Andrew on April 12, 2012
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