Graphics specialist NVIDIA has unleashed the Android mobile platform on its Tegra computer-on-a-chip series.

By 2011, the French Department Oise will supply 55.000 laptops free of charge to fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils, with teachers and libraries also benefiting.

Sunnyvale CA company Azingo is to develop a Linux-based platform for mobile phone provider Vodafone.

An email appeal by Joey Schulze is calling for hardware donations to support two new Debian projects: snapshot and data archive.

In the classic business of high end infrastructure, Sun has been experiencing diminishing sales. The company recently presented its sales figures at the Munich preview to the CeBIT trade show, which opens in March, along with a hint of what they will focus on at the show.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client is now pre-installed on the newest Dell thin clients.

Asus is taking pre-orders for a new netbook that runs on the combined Atom N280/GN40 chipset.

Fred Emmott has released the Slackware-based 64-bit distro with 2.6.27.7 kernel.