Following up on its announcement that it would integrate Webkit HTML rendering technology into its Qtopia mobile phone platform, Trolltech licensed an open source, Webkit-based mobile browser. (more…)

Advantech has announced a fanless industrial computer that supports Linux on a 1GHz Celeron M processor. The 1U-high UNO-4678 is intended for industrial automation and control applications, and boasts eight isolated serial ports along with three LAN ports. (more…)

The Khronos Group formally released the OpenKODE 1.0 API, touted as a royalty-free, device-appropriate alternative to Microsoft's DirectX collection of multimedia APIs. Linux-compatible commercial implementations were announced by Ideaworks3D and Acrodea, while NVidia, Aplix, and Antix Labs have also announced… (more…)

Attesting to the primacy of devices in the computing world, GPU and desktop chipset vendor Nvidia is sampling its first-ever mobile applications processor. The ARM11-based APX 2500 boasts HD (720p) graphics, an HDMI interface, and a super-low power ULP GeForce core. (more…)

Samsung has announced an ARM-11 based application processor fabricated using the company's 65-nanometer technology. Targeting Linux, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices with clock speeds up to 667MHz, the S3C6410 offers MPEG4 encoding/decoding, TV output and two-way videoconferencing capabilities, according to the… (more…)

[Updated Feb. 14] — Monotype Imaging announced that its iType scalable font engine is available as an open source plug-in for Linux. iType for Linux is compatible with other iType Connects plug-ins, and with the open source FreeType font engine used by Linux graphics libraries. (more…)

Freescale is touting the Linux-worthiness of its MXC line of “cellphone-on-module” chips. The Motorola spin-out says the Linux BSP (board support package) supplied with its MXC (“Mobile Extreme Convergence”) chips can support “any of the Linux application frameworks,” ranging from industry… (more…)

Access has released a suite of development tools and launched an online resource for mobile phone developers. Designed for its Access Linux Platform (ALP), the ALP Development Suite has already been used to develop applications for a new ALP-based phone to be manufactured by Samsung for the Orange mobile network, Access said. (more…)

Fabless networking semiconductor vendor Cavium announced faster Linux-compatible Octeon processors for entry- to mid-level networking, wireless base stations, and storage services applications. (more…)

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…)