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PalmSource will present its product roadmap for feature phones and Linux at its annual Developers Conference, set for May 23-26 in San Jose, Calif. Registration is open for the conference, which will feature a Mobile Summit to “identify and explore” worldwide business opportunities for developers, licensees, operators, and industry partners. PalmSource announced its intention to […]

Adlink has released an ETX form-factor single-board computer (SBC) that supports embedded Linux on Celeron and Pentium processors. Target markets for the ETX-IM333 include medical automation, instrumentation, gaming, POS, mobile computing, and transportation, according to the company. The ETX-IM333 is based on an Intel 855GME chipset and supports Pentium M processors from 1.1 GHz to […]

A center for “open technology” startups will open in a Portland, Ore. suburb on February 1, the OSDL has announced. Funded by the City of Beaverton, the Open Technology Business Center will offer residencies to qualified early-stage companies, with the OSDL providing consulting around open source business models and opportunites. According to the OSDL, the […]

Japans largest mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, has taken a $3 million equity stake in embedded Linux tools and support company MontaVista Software Inc. NTT DoCoMo announced in December 2003 that it would adopt Linux for future 3G mobile phones, and its partners NEC and Panasonic chose MontaVista Linux to power a jointly developed Linux […]

PalmSource will market PalmOS as a middleware and application stack for Linux mobile phones. “PalmOS for Linux” initially will target smart phone manufacturers in China. To gain a local presence there, PalmSource has acquired China MobileSoft, a successful mobile phone application software startup. “Local presence and local engineering is the only way to be successful […]