Android and LiMo in Open Source Race

February 13, 2008 By COLLEEN BARRY, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- The race is on: A consortium of 32 companies has joined a classic battle for primacy with their demonstration of mobile phones to compete with devices that will run Google Inc.'s fledgling Android operating system.

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