The number of mobile application stores is growing by the day, and Apple recently passed the 1 billion application download mark for its App Store. With all the actions on the application front, there is serious potential for chaos. However, the new BONDI initiative aims to standardize the market's plumbing for applications developers, service providers and users, thereby smoothing the process for application development and distribution. The initiative is open-source collaboration driven by the membership of the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) association. Special feature