Archive for February, 2009

MontaVista spins MID stack

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu News, linux | No Comments »

MontaVista will demonstrate a commercial Linux distribution for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The "Montebello" stack focuses on corporate and consumer devices, offering extended battery life, fast boot-up, and "seamless" handoffs ... Read more..

ARM SoCs target phones, netbooks

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu News, linux | No Comments »

Qualcomm has announced four mobile chipsets, three with Scorpion cores based on ARM Ltd.'s ARMv7 architecture. The ARM11-based MSM7227 targets sub-$150 smartphones, listing specific support for Google's Android, while the ... Read more..

Linux network appliance adds crypto engine

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu News, linux | No Comments »

Taiwanese network-appliance integrator AR Infotek has announced a Linux-ready network security appliance with a cryptographic security engine. Based on an Intel Pentium M EP80579 ("Tolapai") SoC clocked up to 1.2GHz, ... Read more..

Mobile software merger combines Android, LiMo forces

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu News, linux | No Comments »

Esmertec, a Swiss firm specializing in Android and Java virtual machines, is acquiring Purple Labs, a French vendor of mobile stacks compatible with the LiMo Platform. In a stock deal ... Read more..

The 1,234,567,890th second approaches

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu News, linux | No Comments »

[Updated 1234545906] -- As most any user can tell you, Linux systems think of time in terms of the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970, the beginning of ... Read more..