AOL has been dragged into the Yahoo-Microsoft acquisition story, which with Google's possible involvement now makes it an internet love rectangle, but they have their own fish to fry. At the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona they've announced their own open mobile platform, which will enable developers to build RIAs for mobile devices.
The platform will become available to developers sometime in the summer and the applications built on the platform will work across most major mobile device platforms - BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian and Windows Mobile - but interestingly enough, Android is nowhere to be seen.
The technical info, in a nutshell, can be found in the press release:
"The platform will consist of three components: an XML-based, next-generation markup language; an ultra-lightweight mobile device client; and an application server. A dynamic presentation layer will allow for rapid deployment of new features and easy optimization for a wide variety of mobile devices, allowing developers to build and update applications once, and then distribute them across all supported devices and platforms."