Mobile News and Articles

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

The recently released version 2.0 of Moblin elicited significant feedback. One frequently posed question was, why not ext4?

Moblin 2.0 is officially ready for download and provides new services for mobile devices with Moblin Garage and Application Installer.

The first netbooks with Moblin pre-installed come from Dell. The first Mini 10v system is already available and image files ready for download.

IBM has joined Canonical to market Ubuntu-based netbooks with IBM's Smart Work applications in emerging world markets. Africa is the beginning.

Mobile applications, popularized by iPhone and Android, are getting some further encouragement from chipmaker Intel and its Atom platform.

Electronics manufacturer Archos has introduced its new ARM-based multimedia player including Linux platform Android in collaboration with Google. An additional DVR docking station allows the device to morph into a video recorder.

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

Nokia has introduced the N900 as the newest in its line of Linux-based Internet tablets.

The Android based, VoIP-capable Glass phone with a chip each for operating system and telephony plus an 8" touchscreen is supposed to welcome a new era in business telephony.