Sonos has chosen LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week as the place to unveil updated hardware and new Linux-based firmware. The vendor says its whole-house audio products are carried by 3,000 retailers in 55 countries, putting them among the most popular Linux-based consumer electronics products yet. (more…)

Linux will outperform Windows Mobile and other rival operating systems (OSes) in the mobile Internet device (MID) market, says ABI Research. Led by Moblin, LiMo, and Maemo, the Linux MID market should hit 50 million shipments a year by 2013, says the research group. (more…)

The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation has announced seven new shipping mobile handsets — from Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic — that are said to comply with its mobile phone specification. (more…)

Eurotech announced a PC/104-Plus single board computer (SBC) with Intel's Z500-series Atom processors, and an optional 20-channel GPS receiver. Compatible with embedded Linux, the “Isis” includes SDIO and PCI Express Mini Card sockets, PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion, and eight USB ports, says Eurotech. (more…)

O'Reilly has brought out its (count 'em!) seventh edition of “Learning the vi and Vim Editors.” First published in 1986, this classic teaches basic and advanced features of the world's most popular text editor, a tool every system administrator and Linux user really ought to know. (more…)

Global shipments of “low-price mini notebooks” will reach 8.02 million units in 2008, according to a market research firm in Taipei, Taiwan. Market Intelligence Center (MIC) expects near-term volume growth of 128 percent annually, with shipments reaching 18.3 million units in 2009. (more…)