This hands-on review looks at a small, silent, inexpensive PC based Via's slowest, lowest-powered chip. The Icop eBox-4300 is small enough to piggyback on VESA-compliant monitors, yet actually performs well enough under Linux for desktop use, says reviewer and small-PC enthusiast Eric House. (more…)

[Updated Feb. 5] — Hewlett-Packard (HP) is debuting two Linux-based networked attached storage (NAS) devices for the consumer/SOHO market. Based on a storage family from Marvell's MediaVault 88F518x family (codenamed “Orion”), the low-end Media Vault appliances come in single- (mv2100) or dual hard drive (mv5100)… (more…)

Philips spin-off NXP Semiconductors and French mobile Linux phone stack firm Purple Labs have teamed up on a sub-$100 3G phone hardware/software reference design. The Purple Magic runs Linux and a telecom RTOS on a single ARM9 core, thanks to embedded virtualization technology. (more…)

A Research and Markets study says that the market share for mobile Linux in Asia will increase in 2008. The study also predicts that smartphones will continue to grab mobile-phone market share, and will represent 22 percent of the Asian mobile market this year. (more…)

This hands-on review looks at a small, silent, inexpensive PC based Via's slowest, lowest-powered chip. The Icop eBox-4300 is small enough to piggyback on VESA-compliant monitors, yet actually performs well enough under Linux for desktop use, says reviewer and small-PC enthusiast Eric House. (more…)

Motorola has responded to the news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development framework used in Motorola's Linux phones. (more…)

A Portuguese wireless equipment manufacturer has developed a uCLinux-based DECT phone basestation reference design. Bithium – Sistemas de Telecomunicacoes's Freedom design supports dual PSTN/VoIP cordless phones. (more…)

Start-up Azingo, formerly Celunite, will officially launch its Linux-based mobile phone software stack next month. Set to debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the “Azingo Mobile” stack is positioned as a comprehensive software/services offering for mid-tier feature-phones compliant with LiMo… (more…)

Advances in GPS chipset development will allow integration of GPS in every mobile device within five years, claims a newly released report. Lower prices, GPS modernization, and new Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) will expand the market to 900 million units by 2013, ABI Research forecasts. (more…)

Fabless chipmaker ZF Micro Solutions has signed up Chip 1 Exchange USA to distribute its Linux-compatible ZFx86 system-on-chip (SoC). The venerable, 486-based ZFx86 runs on less than 1 Watt, and is touted as the lowest power x86 embedded controller available. (more…)

German industrial computer manufacturer Solcon Systemtechnik has released a highly customizable industrial terminal PC that runs embedded Linux. The touchscreen-equipped Unidat 6.5-inch Terminal offers options including IP67 protection against dust and water, and resistance to temperatures ranging from -22 to… (more…)

Real-time multi-core x86 Linux specialist Concurrent has ported its development tool suite to Ubuntu development hosts. NightStar LX for Ubuntu comprises a suite of graphical development and debugging tools aimed at multi-processor, multi-threaded, real-time application and… (more…)

Red Bend Software will demonstrate a concept phone supporting partial, differential firmware updates over-the-air. Based on Trolltech's open Linux-based Greenphone, together with Red Bend's vRapid Mobile FOTA (firmware over-the-air) stack, the “Mast” phone will be shown at the Mobile World Congress… (more…)

[Updated Mar. 3, 2008] A stealth-mode startup is readying a Linux-based handheld gaming device with WiFi, USB, and a 4.3-inch 800×480 touchscreen. The “Pandora,” headquartered at OpenPandora.org for now, runs Linux on a next-generation ARM SoC with integrated OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics processor. (more…)

Flash filesystem and management software specialist Datalight has ported its commercial flash filesystem to Linux. The Bothell, Wash. firm claims that Datalight Flash File System for Linux offers 400 percent faster write performance and five times faster mount speeds than JFFS2. (more…)