Datalight has updated its resident flash memory manager and block device driver that works with Linux 2.6. FlashFX Pro version 3.10 adds support for more than 20 new flash chips from Samsung, AMD, and Intel, as well as Spansion's MirrorBit ORNAND, according to the company. (more…)

NEC will use Trolltech's recently announced Greensuite phone stack in a new 3G W-CDMA handset reference design. The “Medity” design is part of NEC's PlatformOvia family of hardware/software reference designs for handsets, digital audio-visual equipment, and automotive infotainment systems, many of which use Linux along with Trolltech's Qtopia middleware, according to the companies. (more…)

Fans of Linux, spirits, and sports can soon satisfy all their desires at once, with the arrival of HumWare's Linux-based, digital-signage kiosks in major U.S. sports bars and restaurants. (more…)

Puppy Linux was guest-of-honor at an “Affordable Community Computing Workshop” this week in the Philippines, where participants assembled and took home ultra low-cost, PC-like computing devices. The workshop was sponsored by Via and several organizations working to close the “digital divide” in the Philippines. (more…)

Coversant has released a suite of open-source software development kits (SDKs) for building collaborative applications based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). The LGPL-licensed SDKs, known as SoapBox Studio, support Novell's Mono project, and version 2 of the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework (CF) managed application environments. (more…)