An ABI Research study claims that 2007 mobile phone sales closed strong, with yearly shipments up 15.8 percent to 1.15 billion. Fourth quarter 2007 worldwide shipments totaled 342 million, meeting ABI's earlier projections, but Motorola continued to lose market share. (more…)

Dutch start-up AHT (Advanced Home Technologies) has launched a Linux-based device for open source developers wishing to write applications for set-top boxes (STBs) based on STMicroelectronics' ST7109 SoC for HDTVs. (more…)

[Updated Jan. 25] — Philips spinoff Polymer Vision has announced plans to ship a Linux-capable e-reader with a flexible, rollup display. Thanks to the screen's low power consumption, the “Readius” offers up to 30 hours of reading without a battery charge, according to the company. (more…)

Falko Timme has published an article on HowToForge about installing and using the Bazaar version control system (VCS) on Debian Etch. The article shows how to set up and install the VCS and install SFTP and Lighttpd on the server. (more…)

Via has unveiled a 64-bit, VM-enabled x86-compatible architecture expected to debut this spring in pin-compatible chips targeting green PCs, home servers, and mobile devices. Chips based on the “Isaiah” architecture promise to outperform Via's current C7/Eden chips two-to-three times, within the same power… (more…)

Netherlands-based systems integrator Deciso is shipping a 1U Appliance Development Kit (ADK) for routers, firewalls, and other rack-mounted network appliances. Based on PC Engines' ALIX single-board computer (SBC), the 19″ ADK comes preinstalled with Voyage Linux. (more…)

The second annual Bossa Conference on open source and mobile devices is open for registration, says Brazilian Linux developers group OpenBossa.org. Scheduled for March 16-19 in Porto de Galinhas, Recife, Brazil, Bossa Conference '08 will feature speakers from OpenEmbedded, OpenMoko, Maemo, Trolltech, and more. (more…)

Free videos of presentations from the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2007 / 9th Real-Time Linux Workshop are now available. Topics include boot time, real-time preemption patches, graphical libraries, and file systems for flash storage. (more…)

Foreword — This informal mini-interview with Glenn Henry, president of Via's CenTaur processor division, took place a few days before the unveiling of Via's “Isaiah” architecture. Henry discusses Isaiah's technical merits, market positioning, and competitive prospects against current and future offerings from… (more…)

Trolltech's Linux-based Qtopia stack will be available with third-party software aimed at allowing partial FOTA (firmware over-the-air) updates. Red Bend's “vRapid Mobile” FOTA application stack lets operators and software/service providers push bug fixes and application updates to customers with minimal network bandwidth… (more…)

An open industry forum has been created to maintain and promote an open source (LGPL v2.1) implmentation of Service Availability Forum high-availability middleware specifications. Founded by Emerson Network Power (ENP), Ericsson, HP, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sun Microsystems, the OpenSAF Foundation aims to standardize high-availability middleware for Linux-based carrier-grade systems. (more…)

IBM's DeveloperWorks has published a three-part series on developing for the Linux-based Nokia N800 tablet. Using the example of developing a webcam application that uploads JPEGs to a remote site, author Peter Seebach (pictured at left) explores Scratchbox, GStreamer, Fmemopen, Libcurl, and more. (more…)

Timesys has added Xilinx Virtex FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) to the list of architectures supported by its suite of online services for embedded Linux developers creating and maintaining their own Linux distributions. (more…)

IBM DeveloperWorks is hosting a free online tutorial on using the Ubuntu Linux distribution for mobile embedded devices. The tutorial explores Ubuntu 7.10 and the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) project. (more…)

Via is sampling a single-board computer aimed at relatively high-end network appliances based on x86 Linux. Powered by a 1GHz, 1.5GHz, or 2GHz C7 processor, and supporting up to 3.5GB of DDR2 RAM, the Network Appliance Board (NAB) 7500 sports four gigabit Ethernet ports. (more…)