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Several major electronics manufacturers agreed to work within...

Several major electronics manufacturers agreed to work within a common open software framework to enhance the Internet of Things, said a Tuesday release from the AllSeen Alliance, a new “cross-industry consortium” of manufacturers (http://bit.ly/ICwigb). Board members include Cisco, Haier, LG,…

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Panasonic, Qualcomm and Sharp. According to the release, they and other members “will contribute software and engineering resources as part of their collaboration on an open software framework that enables hardware manufacturers, service providers and software developers to create interoperable devices and services.” The nonprofit Linux Foundation, which advocates for the growth of the open source operating system Linux, issued the release about the new alliance. “Open source software and collaborative development have been proven to accelerate technology innovation in markets where major transformation is underway,” said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. “Nowhere is this more evident today than in the consumer, industrial and embedded industries where connected devices, systems and services are generating a new level of intelligence in the way we and our systems interact.”