A startup called Rhomobile announced the first formal release of its dual-licensed, open-source framework for smartphones. Rhodes 1.0 enables “write-once” development, using HTML and Ruby, of native smartphone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and now Android, the… (more…)

ABI Research projects that cellular handset sales will fall eight percent this year, but should stabilize in 2010. The research firm also announced it is hosting a free webinar on April 9 that will discuss both mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and wireless-enabled embedded M2M (machine-to-machine) devices. (more…)

ARM has announced a “Cortex-M0” core that is billed as being the smallest, lowest-power ARM processor yet. The heir to the Cortex-M3 will debut in NXP's LPC1100-series microcontrollers, due to ship in early 2010 for e-metering, consumer electronics peripherals, remote sensors, and other low-powered or battery-powered applications. (more…)

The Intel-sponsored Moblin project announced an alpha 2 release of its Moblin v2 mobile device stack, which targets Intel Atom-based netbooks. The open-source Linux stack and development toolkit adds a Gnome desktop, updates UI libraries and graphics, and offers tested support for the MSI Wind… (more…)

Photos and preliminary specifications for an “A1210” Linux phone that appears to be an updated version of the popular Motorola Ming have appeared on Chinese technology sites. The GSM/EDGE-ready A1210 (pictured) offers a larger 2.8-inch screen, and an improved 3.1 megapixel camera, industry reports say. (more…)

Seagate is readying a four-bay network-attached storage device for small businesses that runs embedded Linux and stores up to 8TB. The hot-swappable BlackArmor NAS 440 offers an iTunes server and DLNA-compliant media server, RAID 0/1/5/10, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and four USB ports, says Seagate. (more…)

The first botnet designed for broadband equipment and routers may also be the first involving Linux, says our sister publication, eWEEK. Before being stamped out, a malicious “Psyb0t” worm found a home in approximately 100,000 such devices running Linux “Mipsel” (Debian for MIPS processors), says an article by Larry Seltzer. (more…)

Archos has released its first netbook, based on a Linux-compatible Hasee design, but offers it with Windows XP only. The “Archos 10” has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 160GB hard drive, a 10.2-inch display, WiFi, and 1GB of RAM, according to the company. (more…)

Linus Torvalds announced that Linux 2.6.29 is available and ready for service, with a temporary new mascot in the Australian Tuz (pictured). The updated mainline kernel offers numerous driver and header updates, WiMAX support, the embedded-oriented Squashfs filesystem, and a preliminary new… (more…)

Belarus-based device-design firm Promwad announced a design win for a Linux-based DVB-T set-top box (STB) destined for a Russian manufacturer of TV antennas. The digital terrestrial STB design will be built around an ST Microelectronics (ST) STi5205 system-on-chip (SoC) clocked to 266MHz, says Promwad. (more…)

MSC Vertriebs announced a COM Express Type 2 module that supports Intel's Celeron M or Core Duo processors. The CXB-GM45 offers up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, supports dual independent display modes, and provides gigabit Ethernet, USB, PCI-e, SATA, and EIDE interfaces, the company says. (more…)

Ibase Technology is shipping an embedded x86-based computer for digital signage applications. The SI-24S includes an AMD Sempron 210U clocked to 1.5GHz, as well as an ATI E2400 GPU (graphics processing unit), and supports dual independent 1080p displays with VGA, DVI, or HDMI interfaces, says Ibase. (more…)

Dell has put its plans to release a smartphone on the back burner, according to a research note published Friday. “It ultimately came down to a lack of carrier interest,” Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu is quoted as saying by our sister publication eWEEK. (more…)

Stealth Computer is shipping a fanless, Linux-compatible embedded computer, targeting mission-critical industrial applications. The Model LPC-625F supports Intel's “Penryn” Core 2 Duo P8400 processor clocked to 2.26GHz, and offers gigabit Ethernet, optional WiFi, an 80GB hard disk drive (HDD), and eight USB 2.0… (more…)

Noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders (pictured) and Daniel Silverstone have posted the first of six tutorials for LinuxDevices on embedded Linux system development. (more…)