FIC, the Taiwanese motherboard and OEM gear manufacturer, has announced that they have spun off their OpenMoko open source project into an actual company (ala RedHat). The new OpenMoko group will dedicate its resources to creating Free Open Source Software (FOSS) handheld devices for mobile and wireless uses. While there are no additional details just yet, their initial announcement indicates that they will soon be announcing a partnership with a US-based carrier. Should be interesting. Their first product may very well be their already popular developer platform, the Neo1973.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: CES, mobile, news