VoIP provider Ooma is readying a Linux-based VoIP desktop phone for shipment this fall. Building upon the company's earlier Ooma Hub, the Ooma Telo adds up to six DECT 6.0 cordless handsets, improved voice quality, and advanced features including mobile transfer and a “connected phonebook,” says the company. (more…)

SimpleHomeNet announced an OEM-targeted home area network (HAN) automation gateway controller that supports ZigBee Pro, 6LoWPAN and JenNet wireless technologies, and can be interfaced to power-line modems for Insteon and X10 compatibility. The programmable device runs Linux on a 32-bit Atmel AP7000 SoC and AVR32 core, says the company. (more…)

The LiMo Foundation will soon announce more handsets, said executive director Morgan Gillis, in an interview with LinuxDevices. Gillis, who sounded off on Intel's Wind River acquisition, Android, Chrome OS, Symbian, and more, said the mid-August announcement will be followed by bigger announcements in October as LiMo R2 reaches market. (more…)

Ibase Technology has announced a fanless computer that sports six serial ports and eight GPIOs. The ASB200-883-6COM includes a 2.5-inch bay for an HDD (hard disk drive), externally accessible CompactFlash slot, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and both VGA and DVI video outputs, the company says. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com spoke with LiMo Foundation executive director Morgan Gillis about LiMo's upcoming R2 release and a slate of new LiMo phones due this year. Gillis discusses why LiMo is different than other mobile Linux platforms and offers insights on Intel's Wind River acquisition, Android, Chrome, Symbian, and more. (more…)

The smartphone market might not be as “recession proof” as observers had been expecting. HTC did an about-face today on its financial predictions for 2009, saying that its revenue will fall, according to reports by the Dow Jones, Reuters, and IDG news services. (more…)

Avalue has announced a pair of panel PCs sporting 22-inch displays and resistive touchscreens. The PPC-22W01 and PPC-22W03 include 2.5-inch hard disk drives, CompactFlash and Mini PCI slots, and dual gigabit Ethernet ports, the company says. (more…)

Juniper Research released a study predicting 50 million WiMAX broadband subscribers around the world by 2014. Much of the growth will be driven by the original goal for the wireless technology: providing broadband to underserved areas that pose logistical challenges to wired broadband networks, says the research firm. (more…)

Lauterbach announced that its Linux-ready, hardware-assisted debugger now supports the Intel Atom CPU. Lauterbach's Trace32 PowerTools now support the various versions of the Intel Atom, and will support Intel's related, MID-oriented Moorestown and Medfield smartphone processor when they ship in 2010, says the German embedded firm. (more…)

Portwell has added to its collection of Mini-ITX embedded boards with a model supporting Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processors. The WADE-8180 includes VGA and DVI-D video outputs, has four SATA ports compatible with RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10, and has a PCI Express x 16 expansion slot. (more…)

MEN Micro announced a Linux-compatible CompactPCI SBC that it says is the first to follow the forthcoming PICMG 2.30 PlusIO standard. The F19P uses an Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 processor, offers up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM, features multiple PCI Express links, and has five SATA ports with RAID support, the company says. (more…)

Mentor Graphics announced it has acquired Linux development firm Embedded Alley, plans to port Android to PowerPC, and will work with ARM, Freescale, Marvell, MIPS, RMI, and TI on Linux and/or Android projects. One plan calls for combining Linux with Mentor's “Nucleus” RTOS on Marvell's dual-core Sheeva MV78200 processors, added Mentor. (more…)

Registration is open for the fourth annual Flash Memory Summit, scheduled from August 11-13 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference will cover flash memory topics including laptop design, green flash, mobile applications, new non-volatile memory technologies, and solid-state drives (SSDs), say the organizers. (more…)

Creative Technology subsidiary ZiiLabs is shipping a developer-focused portable media player based on a homegrown, dual ARM-core “ZMS-05” SoC and “Plaszma” Linux distribution. The Zii Egg StemCell Computer offers a 3.5-inch display supporting 1080p HD video, plus an HD video camera, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, an SDK, and optional Android, says ZiiLabs. (more…)

Timesys released a version of its LinuxLink development framework for a Texas Instruments (TI) ARM9 SoC that targets low-power devices, ranging from medical instrumentation to industrial control systems. The OMAP-L137 subscription represents the first LinuxLink release for an OMAP-L1xx SoC, which are designed to incorporate TI's new C674x DSPs, says the company. (more…)