Texas Instruments (TI) has announced the OMAP3440, its fourth mobile device system-on-chip (SoC) based on ARM's next-generation Cortex-A8 core. The company has also started sampling a development board and Linux BSP for its earlier OMAP3430 SoC, also based on the Cortex-A8 core. (more…)

MontaVista Software is demonstrating a pair of Linux stacks for mobile phones that it co-developed. One was done with interface-stack firm Movial, and features a Web widgets UI, while the other comprises a complete “pre-integrated” stack developed in partnership with Japanese phone… (more…)

Eighteen mobile handsets that support the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation platform have been announced by Aplix, LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Purple Labs, and Samsung. (more…)

[Updated Feb. 13] — A dozen companies are showing off Google's Android stack for Linux-based mobile phones, according to reports from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. Among them is the Open Handset Alliance's sole Linux integration partner, Wind River, which is showing off three Linux-Android ports. (more…)

Intel and STMicroelectronics have begun sampling phase-change memory (PCM), a potential flash memory replacement that uses heat instead of electrons to store data. Code-named “Alverstone” in this 128Mbit, 90-nanometer implementation, it outdoes flash by providing bit alterability, faster speed, and lower power consumption, the… (more…)

AOL has announced an open source, cross-platform development environment for mobile devices. Apparently a response to Google's Android and Yahoo's Widgets initiatives, the AOL Open Mobile Platform will provide “ready access to the tools and source code” for developing rich-client applications on BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. (more…)

Trolltech announced it was proceeding with integrating the Webkit rendering engine into its Qt application framework for Linux desktop and mobile application development. (more…)

Worldwide Linux mobile device market share remained flat at five percent in 4Q 2007, says a Canalys report on mobile phones. Yet the study also says that signs point to future growth for Linux phones. (more…)

Azingo revealed that its Linux-based phone stack will be part of a 3G phone reference design based on Broadcom's dual-ARM-core BCM2153 multimedia baseband system-on-chip (SoC). (more…)

[Updated Feb. 11] — VirtualLogix says its nanokernel can improve quality-of-service in VoIP applications. The vendor plans to demonstrate a Nokia web tablet running Linux and a VoIP softphone “appliance” on the VLX virtualization layer at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona… (more…)

STMicroelectronics (ST) announced a Linux-based board support package (BSP) for an ARM9-based SoC (system-on-chip) with lots of integrated media processing and graphics engines. Trolltech's Qtopia application framework for Linux is also available for the STn8815 SoC, which targets smart phones, wireless PDAs, Internet appliances, and car entertainment systems. (more…)

Wind River says it is the first commercial vendor to meet the Linux Foundation's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 requirements. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition 2.0 is said to have met all 135 priority-one mandatory requirements outlined by the specification. (more…)

Finnish wireless equipment integrator Elektrobit (EB) will showcase two new Linux-based, WiMax-connected product designs at GSMA in Barcelona next week. One is an Intel Menlow-based mobile internet device (MID) that uses virtualization to improve VoIP quality-of-service, while the other is a smaller handset that uses a NextWave WiMax chipset. (more…)

Leading Linux operating system and tools vendor Wind River is reorganizing into four product divisions, and has hinted that layoffs and offshoring are on the way. The four divisions are VxWorks, Linux, Tools, and Device Management. (more…)

Logitech subsidiary Slim Devices has announced a major upgrade to its digital music distribution system. The SqueezeBox Duet includes a Linux-based WiFi-connected handheld device able to control the streaming of network-based music to one or more digital media adapters, and available with open source development… (more…)