Following a beta release on June 9, Nokia has released a highly anticipated Linux operating system update for the 770 Internet Tablet. The “Tablet OS 2006” update is now available for download by 770 owners on Nokia's website. (more…)

Annual shipments of “converged” handsets — devices combining cellular and WiFi wireless — will exceed 132 million units by 2010, In-Stat forecasts. Carriers have been reluctant to offer WiFi-capable handsets for several reasons, but WiFi has now “spread so fast that they will not be able to resist much longer,” the analyst firm suggests. (more…)

STMicroelectronics has released an open source sample implementation of OpenMAX IL, a standardized API (application programming interface) for interfacing with hardware- and software-based multimedia codecs. ST's Bellagio v0.2 OpenMAX IL sample code supports Linux on x86 and ARM platforms, according to the Khronos Group, which maintains OpenMAX. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . . ! (more…)

“Greed and close-mindedness” prevent handset makers from understanding what users want from Linux phones, writes Eugenia Loli-Queru in an impassioned editorial at OSNews. Loli-Queru laments the mutual incompatibility of current Linux phone implementations, the incompleteness of standardization efforts, and the inability of current phones to support user-installed native Linux applications. (more…)

Right on schedule, an alliance of NEPs (network equipment providers) formed last January has published its first Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) “profile.” The SCOPE Alliance profile shows what top NEPs care about most, the group says. SCOPE earlier this year published its first ATCA profile. (more…)

June, 2006 may go down in history as the month both Intel and AMD dropped out of the high-stakes, ultra-high-volume mobile phone chip market. Within a period of just two weeks, AMD sold off its MIPS-based Alchemy chip line, and Intel unloaded its ARM-based XScale applications and baseband processor business. (more…)

A free software project to create an embedded cryptography library with Transport Layer Security (TLSv1) support has achieved its first stable release. The axTLS 1.0 library is highly configurable, and comes with a graphical build tool and https daemon. (more…)

The Gelato Federation is seeking presenters and exhibitors for the Gelato Itanium Conference & Expo (ICE) to be held in Singapore on October 1-4. Gelato ICE is the only conference specifically dedicated to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture, conference organizers say. (more…)

Two-thirds of SCO's claims against IBM have been thrown out of court, Linux Watch reports. Judge Brooke Wells cited SCO's failure to provide evidence of alleged infringements in ruling largely in favor of an IBM motion to limit SCO's claims. (more…)

June, 2006 goes down in history as the month Intel and AMD folded out of the high-stakes, ultra-high-volume mobile phone chip market. AMD sold its MIPS-based Alchemy chip line to Raza Microelectronics on June 15, and Intel sold its ARM-based XScale applications and baseband processors to Marvell two weeks later. (more…)

Athena Thin Clients has introduced what it says is the first fanless, thin client terminal integrated directly into a TFT LCD monitor. The 17-inch T2117FM runs Linux, and is well-suited to critical care environments in hospitals, according to the company. (more…)

A commercial real-time Linux variant offering separate real-time and non-real-time execution domains has added support for a family of network processors that integrate separate application and control plane processing units. FSMLabs's RTLinuxPro development kit now supports Freescale's PowerQUICC III family of SoCs (system-on-chip processors). (more…)

Leapstone Systems has integrated its service delivery and content management software with Intel's Linux- and ATCA-based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework proof-of-concept. Leapstone says the ATCA version of its “Communications Convergence Engine” (CCE) can function as a Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM) in “fully interoperable ecosystems.”

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A group comprised of 10 storage industry companies will propose an open source project to the Eclipse Foundation. The Aperi community's proposed “Aperi framework” would be based initially on code contributions from Fujitsu, IBM, and McData, and would provide an open, standards-based way to integrate storage equipment and management tools from multiple vendors, the Aperi group suggests. (more…)