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Partnership to Power Long Tail Mobile Content

Technology News Staff — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:28:46 +0000

Mobopia Corporation and ACCESS CO., LTD. have a strategic partnership to create an integrated, open and flexible Widget solutions for delivering a wide variety of rich and engaging content to mobile phones, worldwide. The partnership will combine Mobopia’s Xoe™ rich-media Widget client with ACCESS’ NetFront™ Browser, delivering a completely integrated, open and flexible Widget platform tailored specifically for mobile devices, available in Q3 of this year.

Linspire Acquired by Xandros

Technology News Staff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:35:16 +0000

Xandros, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Linspire. The combination of the technologies, expertise, and market presence of the two companies supports Xandros' mission to become a powerful one-stop Linux solutions company. With this acquisition, Xandros further enhances its ability to meet the needs of a growing number of Linux and mobile users for one-click software delivery to update and enhance their devices.

Verizon Joined The LiMo Foundation™

Technology News Staff — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:52:26 +0000

Verizon has joined the LiMo Foundation™ as a Core member and will fill the final seat on LiMo’s board of directors. By participating in LiMo, Verizon hopes to help LiMo unify the mobile industry around openness and Linux as the key enablers to lowering development costs.

LiMo Foundation is open to all vendors and service providers in the mobile communications marketplace, including device manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, integrators and independent software vendors. Verizon Wireless joins the foundation’s other 39 members in working within LiMo’s transparent governance model to shape the evolution of the LiMo Platform™, while remaining entirely free to deliver their own compelling and differentiated services to mobile customers.

TI Joins LiMo Foundation™

Technology News Staff — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:22:45 +0000

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.

Linux Legal Summit 2008

Technology News Staff — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:42:27 +0000

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.

SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 Plans

Technology News Staff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:02:42 +0000

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) and Linux Networx, Inc.

Technology News Staff — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:28:13 +0000

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.

Multi-Scheme DRM Client Embedded

Technology News Staff — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:20:42 +0000

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.

iType® Scalable Font Engine For Open Source Linux Platforms

Technology News Staff — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:24:32 +0000

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.

Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 Released

Technology News Staff — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:48 +0000

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.