Access has announced a middleware suite aimed at enabling mobile phones and other embedded devices to interoperate with digital consumer appliances such as storage devices, TVs, cameras, hard-disk recorders, and printers. The NetFront Living Connect middleware suite supports Linux, and complies with DLNA v1.5 specs, Access said. (more…)

“Zeno,” a robotic boy with two brains, will visit a pair of robotics conferences this month. The 17-inch, 4.5-pound humanoid robot can speak, learn, interact with its surroundings, and even recognize faces, according to creator Hanson Robotics. (more…)

[Updated Oct. 3] — A biometric device vendor specializing in fingerprint readers has ported its software development kit to Linux for the first time. DigitalPersona says its “One Touch for Linux” SDK will enable developers to create fingerprint-enabled C/C++ applications that run on PCs, embedded… (more…)

Open Kernel Labs is demonstrating its commercially supported open source processor virtualization technology at the ARM Developer's Conference this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The OKL4 microkernel is reportedly running on FIC's OpenMoko Neo1973 phone, allowing two instances of Linux to share the phone's… (more…)

The Dillo project has achieved an alpha release of a next-generation version of its ultra-lightweight CGI forms-capable HTML browser for embedded systems. Dillo-f15f is built against FLTK2 (fast light toolkit, aka “full tick”) rather than GTK, and adds support for anti-aliased international UTF-8 text, among other new features. (more…)

TurboLinux says it has added online storage capabilities to its combination PMP (portable media player) and personal Linux boot device. The “Wizpy” device will soon gain support for network-based file storage, thanks to a deal with third-party storage service provider… (more…)

Israel-based Emblaze Mobile has announced a mysterious new mobile communications device, expected to ship in 2008. The undefined and unnamed device reportedly has been developed in collaboration with Sharp and Access, the latter of which has lately been hard at work perfecting a Linux stack for mobile devices. (more…)

An industry group working to increase interoperability among Linux implementations for mobile phones has gained another high-profile member. BT (British Telecom) is the third global operator to join the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, and the organization's 21st member. (more…)

Trolltech will supply an SDK (software development kit) for native application development on Motorola's Linux-based phones, and Motorola will promote and distribute the SDK at no cost, the companies said. (more…)