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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Access confirms NTT DoCoMo win
Monday, April 21, 2008
Ubuntu ported to ARM N800
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A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture. The "Handheld Mojo" team has completed ARM builds of Feisty Fawn (dubbed "Frisky Firedrake") and Gutsy Gibbon ("Grumpy Griffin"), with Hardy Heron compilation starting soon. ...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Linux 2.6.25 release bolsters ARM
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The Linux community has released a new kernel that could have a major impact on personal computing, writes Henry Kingman on Linux-Watch. Release 2.6.25's support for the ARM-based Marvell Orion architecture could improve ARM's ability to fend off competition from x86, he suggests. ...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Linux phone stack firm hires CMO
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Mobile Linux software company Azingo announced the hire of a new CMO. Former Saba and PalmSource exec Gabi Schindler (pictured at left) will manage corporate marketing, product marketing, and ecosystem development, says Azingo. 
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Mobile Firefox gets speedup, design tweaks
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The Mozilla Foundation says the mobile version of Firefox, planned for release later this year, has been sped up nearly 600 percent in its latest builds. The evolving product, which will run on Linux-based devices, has also received several interesting new user interface (UI) proposals. ...Wednesday, April 9, 2008
N810 Android, anyone?
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A website has published instructions on how to install Google's Android Java stack on real hardware with ARM926 and later cores, running Linux 2.6.23 and later kernels. The instructions can be used to install Android on Nokia's Linux-based N810 web tablet, the article suggests. ...Friday, April 4, 2008
Nokia tablet gains WiMAX
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Nokia announced a WiMAX version of its Linux-based Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Aside from the new WiMAX radio, the WiMAX Edition appears to offer identical hardware to the original N810, but offers a pre-installed version of Nokia's new Linux-based "Tablet OS2008" operating system (OS). ...
Linux powers TV-enabled mobile phone
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[Updated Apr. 1] -- Motorola has used Linux to build a 3G, touchscreen-enabled mobile phone that can receive and record video broadcast in DVB-H format (digital video broadcast, handhelds). The MobileTV DH02 boasts gesture-based UI, Bluetooth, a GPS receiver, and voice-assisted navigation software, Motorola says. ...LiMo completes first mobile spec release
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The LiMo Foundation met its deadline by unveiling the first release of its Linux-based mobile device platform, LiMo Platform Release 1. The industry consortium also announced that Texas Instruments (TI) was joining the group as a Core member. ...Hardware-assisted debugger supports Linux, Cortex-A8-based SoC
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Germany-based Lauterbach announced that its hardware-assisted debugger now supports TI's new OMAP35XX family of DaVinci processors. Trace32 PowerTools support Linux both as a target OS and development host, and can be used to debug high-level languages (HLLs) and assembler, program flash, and do real-time traces. ...Time-to-evaluation is key
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This paper describes how chip vendor-supplied, Linux-based evaluation kits affect time-to-evaluation, and ultimately time-to-market for product companies and consultants alike. It was written by Alan R. Weiss, a 26-year veteran of the embedded market, and includes candid appraisals of kits from three vendors. ...Home automation system gains Linux-based controller
Based on the TI DaVinci processor.
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[Updated Mar. 29] -- Control4 has added to its line of Linux-based, ZigBee-compatible home automation/media networking products with a new controller. The Control4 Home Controller HC-500 interfaces with home theater appliances, multi-room music access, lighting, thermostats, and security systems, and comes with a Linux ...Low-cost IP camera design comes with Linux
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Texas Instruments (TI) and Micron's Aptina Imaging division have teamed up on an ultra-low-cost WXGA IP camera reference design for surveillance applications. The DM355IPNC-MT5 design runs Linux on a $10 TI DaVinci RISC/DSP digital media processor, and has an eBOM under $40, the companies claim. ...
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