French bluetooth accessory specialist Com One is readying a portable WiFi clock-radio powered by a 2.6.15-7 kernel and the Familiar Linux distribution. The battery-powered “Phoenix IP Radio” is based on an Intel PXA270 (Bulverde) processor, and goes on sale direct to consumers next month. (more…)

At 3GSM this week, Broadcom demonstrated a “single-chip” mobile phone hardware reference design said to support all major “open” operating systems, including Linux. The “CellAirity” design is based on a Broadcom processor integrating an ARM11 core with on-chip engines for a variety of cellular protocols. (more…)

Four articles about embedded Linux development, from Linux Journal's January issue, are available online. They respectively discuss GUI library choices, how multiprocessing is changing embedded computing, a volunteer-run project in Montreal to present local artists at multimedia kiosks, and porting Linux to a PowerPC-based softcore. (more…)

Popular Science is sponsoring a contest for the best user-developed applications, scripts, services, or hardware additions to Nokia's Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet. (more…)

Photos and a video of Access's just-launched Linux-based mobile phone operating system have been published by Spanish website PDAExpertos. The media, which show a development board and a prototype phone running ALP v1.0, were captured at this week's 3GSM mobile technology… (more…)

Infineon, Comneon, and FSMLabs demonstrated a working prototype of a single-core mobile phone, making real calls on an Edge network, at the 3GSM World Congress this week in Barcelona. The partners claim their MP-Elite phone to be the first at its price point to run Linux. (more…)

Wind River is shipping a version of its application hot-patching and remote debugging product designed specifically for software and device testing facilities, including geographically distributed teams. Lab Diagnostics lets teams dynamically instrument Linux and VxWorks applications without recompiling, and artificially create arbitrary operational conditions, the company says. (more…)

Iwatsu Electric Co. used Linux to build an IP videophone that lets users place calls by selecting numbers from web pages. The NR-IPKTV includes Opera Software's Opera for Devices browser along with an email client, and targets business users. (more…)

At 3GSM this week, Broadcom unveiled a smartphone SoC (system-on-chip) that integrates an HSDPA baseband modem with application, audio, and multimedia processors on a single monolithic chip. The BCM2153 HEDGE (HSDPA+EDGE) multimedia baseband processor reduces board space, cost, and power requirements, thus eliminating the cost premium associated with HSDPA handsets, according to the company. (more…)

A tiny, Linux-based gateway has won an award for hardware innovation at the 2007 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week. SSV Embedded Systems's “Tux/Stick” interfaces between USB-enabled PCs and various industrial and embedded networks, including LANs, WiFi networks, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and in-car… (more…)

At 3GSM this week, Enea is touting a broad collection of products aimed at making “third screen” services more reliable. The company's “Accelerator Platform” comprises in-house and third-party products for both ends of the mobile phone market's virtual wire, and targets VoIP, IPTV, broadband Internet, gaming, and streaming video services. (more…)

Qualcomm expects to sample a low-cost, dual-core mobile phone processor that supports Linux and other third-party embedded OSes, in Q3 of this year. Smartphones based on the Mobile Station Modem MSM7225 will sell for less than $200, the company forecasts. (more…)

The Khronos Group is seeking feedback on a multimedia specification described as an “open” alternative to Microsoft's DirectX API collection. The royalty-free OpenKODE spec combines several native, C-language APIs into a “comprehensive media stack specification for accelerating rich… (more…)

Access is finally shipping its next-generation Linux-based operating system and development kit for mobile devices. The company is showing off version 1.0 of Access Linux Platform (ALP), and various tools and high-end mobile applications processor support packages, at the 3GSM World Congress this week in… (more…)

[Updated 3:00 P.M.] — Motorola is showcasing its Linux and “kJava” based music phone for U.S. and European markets, at the 3GSM World Congress this week in Barcelona. (more…)