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Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that about 200,000 Android devices are being sold each day, says CNET. Android's ascent has also been confirmed by two more mobile phone market research reports from ABI Research and NPD Group, the latter saying that Android has eclipsed RIM in U.S. smartphone sales with a 33 percent share.
Mindspeed announced a new member of its Comcerto family of VoIP system-on-chips (SoCs), targeting media, signaling and control processing on low-to-medium density optical networking environments. The Comcerto 300xv offers dual ARM11 processors, a 64-bit DSP, dual gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and a PCI Host controller, and is available with an OpenWRT Linux-based evaluation board.
The cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) market has been “challenging” over the past 18 months, but bottomed out last year and is now on the upswing, ABI Research says. From this year onwards, the market will enjoy a more normal growth pattern, and will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015, the research firm adds.
Motorola says it's now shipping a smartphone running Android 2.1 for SK Telecom in Korea. The Moto Glam is equipped with a 3.7-inch, 854 x 480 pixel touchscreen, a five-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 720p video recording capabilities, plus Wi-Fi, GPS, and an HDMI output, the company says.
The MeeGo project released version 1.0 of the MeeGo for IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) environment for car computers running Linux on Intel Atom processors. MeeGo for IVI ships with a sample, Qt-based IVI Home Screen and taskbar featuring a scroll-wheel motif, as well as automotive-specific middleware components and sample applications, says the project.
Wind River announced that it is participating in Adobe's Open Screen Project and has become a worldwide scaling partner for Adobe Flash software. Wind River will license, distribute, integrate, and support Adobe Flash Player 10.x, Adobe AIR 2.x, and Flash Lite 4.x across its “Internet-facing software platforms,” including Wind River Platform for Android.
NoMachine announced details about an upcoming version 4.0 of its X Windows-based, Linux-compatible NX Remote Access software. Said to be “in its final stages,” NX 4.0 expands beyond Linux to offer native remote access to Windows and Mac desktops, and it also beefs up multimedia support and integrates its NX Web Player app to offer NX sessions on any device, including smartphones.
SSV announced a new member of its “DIL/NetPC” computer-on-module (COM) family, offering a web server designed for remote access via smartphones. The Linux-based DIL/NetPC DNP/9265 incorporates an ARM9 Atmel AT91SAM9263 processor with 32MB SDRAM, 32MB flash, Ethernet and other I/O, and is offered with an “SK30” starter kit.
Advantech announced a compact PC designed for mobile video recording applications. The ARK-VH200 includes four BNC inputs that capture video at up to 704 x 480 pixels, an eSATA port, four USB 2.0 ports, a GPS receiver, multiple Ethernet ports, and both VGA and LVDS video outputs, the company says.
General Dynamics Itronix announced a wearable, eight-ounce tactical computer/GPS device based on Android and intended for military applications. The GD300 is built around a 600MHz Cortex-A8 processor, offers a sunlight-readable 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, and meets MIL-STD 810G specifications for ruggedness, says the company.
The tenth annual Debian Developer Conference has opened in New York City, marking the first time the event has been held in the U.S. The event will explore the latest developments with the Debian Linux distribution, which is popular among embedded Linux developers, and also offers the foundation for Linux distros including Ubuntu Linux, Xandros, and Google's Chrome OS.
Stealth Computer announced what's claimed to be its smallest mini PC ever, packing Intel Core 2 Duo processors rather than the Atom that might have been expected. The LPC-100 includes up to 4GB of RAM, 500GB of hard disk storage, VGA and DVI-D video outputs, three USB 2.0 ports, two serial ports, and two PS/2 ports, the company says.
Android has jumped past Apple for a second-place 27 percent market share among new smartphone subscribers in the U.S. during the second quarter, says The Nielsen Company. According to Canalys, meanwhile, Android subscriptions have grown 886 percent worldwide in the second quarter, while unit sales in the U.S. gave the operating system a market-leading 34 percent share.
Smartbook AG is shipping a seven-inch, 800 x 480 tablet computer for the German market equipped with Android 2.1. The Smartbook Surfer runs on a Telechips TTC8902 processor clocked to 720MHz, and offers 256MB of DDR2 memory, 2GB of flash, 802.11b/g, optional GPS, and a webcam, says the company.
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 2.6.35 mainline kernel, adding improvements to multicore support, network scalability, memory management, power management, and Btrfs file-system I/O, among other enhancements. Meanwhile, we take a look ahead at Linux 2.6.36, and note Linux Journal's brief history of the first Linux kernel and the 452 distributions that were to follow.