Nokia this week launched a web site, ostdev.net, which it hopes will bring together developers in the open source community to develop games and other applications for set-top boxes. The mobile phone giant is using the site, operated by Californian open source developers CollabNet, to promote the Open Standards Terminal (OST), a platform for home entertainment applications based on Linux and other open source technologies.

Nokia's first OST-based product is the Media Terminal which it describes as “an innovative infotainment device that seamlessly combines digital video broadcast service, full internet access, and personal video recorder (PVR) technology.”

Rickard Nelgér, Head of Product Management, Nokia Home Communications said:

"we are convinced that openness is the way forward. With the OST platform Nokia aims at initiating the creation of an open standard for IP-based home entertainment. By making source code and other tools available to these developers all over the world we want to give maximum support to developers and stimulate a widespread creation of applications."

Nokia plans to release the Media Terminal in Europe this summer and then in the US.

For more information, see: www.ostdev.net

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