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LiMo Foundation and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), announced today the important addition of TI as the Foundation’s newest Core member.

By actively participating in LiMo Foundation, TI will work towards the advancement of the LiMo Platform™; establish an open and diverse ecosystem that realizes the advantages of open Linux-based development, and collaborate with other committed mobile industry leaders and innovators. TI will assume a seat on LiMo’s Board of Directors, Executive Council, Architecture Council and Requirements Council, and will work within LiMo’s constructs to make valuable contributions to the development and advancement of the LiMo Platform.

The Linux Foundation (LF) has released the details for its second Legal Summit, which will be held at the Motorola Customer Briefing Center in Schaumburg, Ill on April 23, 2008.

The LF Legal Summits provide an important vendor-neutral forum for leading in-house counsel from member companies HP, IBM, Intel, Novel, Oracle, Red Hat and others, to collaborate in the development of programs to address legal issues surrounding Linux and open source software. The Summits are led by the LF’s legal team Karen Copenhaver and Andy Updegrove.

Novell announced its development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be designed to form the heart of the modern IT organization, providing a foundation for mission-critical workloads across the enterprise by leveraging new technologies for server virtualization, consolidation and appliances, as well as innovative client computing breakthroughs.

SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) has acquired the core assets of Linux Networx, Inc.

In exchange for the issuance of SGI common stock, SGI has acquired key Linux Networx software, patents, technology and expertise. Linux Networx is a recognized technology leader in the clustered HPC space and boasts a significant customer base. The acquisition is expected to advance SGI leadership in production-ready high performance computing solutions.

Discretix exhibited its Multi-Scheme DRM Client, pre-integrated with the embedded Linux platform at TrollTech’s booth at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Mobile DRM adds significant value to devices equipped with the Linux operating system, by establishing a trusted environment for the distribution and consumption of various types of premium content.

The iType® scalable font engine, from Monotype Imaging Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), is available as a plug-in for open source Linux® environments. The product is being launched as part of the company’s new iType Connects™ offering and is compatible with the FreeType™ font engine used by open source graphics libraries for Linux platforms. iType Connects plug-ins provide flexible enhancements to help manufacturers of handsets and other consumer electronics devices speed time to market for products offering superior display of scalable, stylistic and multilingual text.

Terra Soft released Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 for Sony PS3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p. Built upon the CentOS foundation, YDL v6.0 offers enterprise quality for the home user.

YDL v6.0 delivers the professional quality of an enterprise level Linux distribution to a just-works desktop experience for both PS3 and Apple PowerPC. Built upon CentOS with select Fedora 7 components, YDL v6.0 integrates the "E17" desktop.

The LiMo Platform is the first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications.

LiMo’s initial founding members, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, collaborated on Release 1 (R1), and nearly all of the enabling technology within R1 has been commercially deployed and proven within handsets enjoyed by consumers today.

Azingo Mobile is a comprehensive suite of open mobile software and services designed to help companies deliver web 2.0 applications, music, video, vivid graphics and more to a wide range of mobile phones. Leveraging the economies of open source innovations and based on LiMo and its Ecosystem, Azingo Mobile provides a less costly and more flexible platform for designing and deploying mobile devices. The platform will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, (Azingo booth 2.1D57 and LiMo booth 8B135), Feb. 11-14, 2008.

Red Bend has unveiled the industry’s first Linux mobile phone with software that can be fully customized over the air. Red Bend has partnered with companies—including Digital Airways, Opera, Synchronica, Trolltech and Zi—to showcase a new concept in customizing mobile software where features, applications and services can be deployed and updated easily and securely over the air on consumers’ handsets using Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile™.