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Opera Software has unveiled a super-lightweight browser aimed at Web-enabling some 700 million low-end and mid-tier mobile phones. Dubbed Opera Mini, the browser works on WAP-enabled, J2ME-equipped (Java 2 Mobile Edition) handsets, provided the selected wireless carrier supports the service, Opera says. Opera Mini is based on a small Java client that is installed on […]

Embedded Linux powered 14 percent of smart phones shipped worldwide in Q1 of 2005, up 412 percent from 3.4 percent in Q1 2004, according to Gartner Inc. Windows Mobile shipments also grew substantially, rising 50 percent from a 2.9 share in Q1 2004 to 4.5 percent in Q1 2005, Gartner says. Additionally, Gartner says smart […]

TeamF1 Inc. is shipping Linux middleware for OEMs that want to add secure, managed 802.11a/b/g access point capabilities to devices of all kinds. The Air Secure Access Point (ASAP) stack supports 2.4- and 2.6-series Linux kernels, and integrates the latest security and management features, along with a flexible driver framework, the company says. According to […]

Wind River—the largest vendor of software platforms and tools in the embedded market—has focused its message for the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference on open source, open standards and open technologies, announcing an expanded role in the Eclipse Foundation, proposing device-oriented extensions to the Eclipse software development platform, and unveiling a significant contribution to an open-source […]

A startup in Santa Clara, Calif. is shipping a Linux-based mesh router aimed at VOIP and video. The Mesh Dynamics Module uses multiple radios—along with custom real-time Linux extensions—to create a duplexing backhaul network said to improve bandwidth more than 64 times over conventional mesh technology. Currently, the technology works well enough that LinuxDevices was […]

WLAN software specialist Instant802 has renamed itself Devicescape and launched an off-the-shelf Linux Wi-Fi stack meant to speed the arrival of ubiquitous wireless networking. UWP (Universal Wireless Platform) 2.0 includes a Linux reference design and Eclipse-based tools, and targets consumer electronics devices, office equipment and network infrastructure. Previously, Instant802 offered development services to companies building […]

Its only been about two years since Linux started becoming a significant factor in mobile phones, an arena that has been dominated by Symbian, Microsoft and proprietary operating systems. With the burgeoning complexity of mobile phones, feature phones and smart phones—plus increasing time-to-market pressures—theres a clear movement toward off-the-shelf, third-party operating systems based on industry […]

Trolltech announced Monday that more than 50 companies are developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than 20 mobile phones. These successes signal “a surge in the market for handsets built on the popular open source Linux operating system,” the company says. “We think that 2005 is going […]

Linux is achieving critical mass in a number of segments in the telecommunications market, particularly in telecom infrastructure equipment. Pointing toward an even more successful future, OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) on Thursday released version 3.0 of the CGL (Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition) for developer evaluation. The CGL is described as a public reference […]

MontaVista Software will broaden its focus on the burgeoning mobile phone market, with the announcement Tuesday of a program to rally chipmakers, software providers, and wireless carriers around its embedded Linux operating system as an open, extensible software platform. Dubbed the Mobilinux Open Framework, the initiative aims to produce a plug-and-play software ecosystem consisting of […]