Nvidia has announced its first OpenCL-capable driver. Not only that: Linux users will get it at the same time as the Windows package, which complies with OpenCL's platform-independent concept.

The Open Handset Alliance supporting the Android operating system has won a new member in MIPS Technologies.

German company Freecom has announced, by its own reckoning, the first external USB 3.0 hard drive.

The chip manufacturer Via Technologies has introduced a new notebook class intended to run via Linux OS. The Via chips-equipped Netnotes will initially only be available in China.

The previously Windows-dedicated Korean company has ventured this fall into its first Android smartphone for the European market.

The Linux Foundation has reinforcements from the hardware camp. CPU manufacturer ARM joined the Foundation on Monday.

The Open PC Project wants to construct a fair priced PC for Linux users. The results of a first survey have now been published.

Seventy percent drivers, about six percent firmware and sound and many filesytem updates. That's how Linus Torvalds describes the the biggest changes to the new Kernel 2.6.31.