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• Chumby: cutest Linux computer ever 2 weeks ago
  
  "OK, so it's more than an alarm clock that you could throw to the floor in the morning without breaking it...."
• Please vote! 2008 Embedded Linux survey 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  LinuxDevices.com has launched its eighth-annual Embedded Linux Market Survey, and invites all readers to participate. Don't miss this opportunity to help shape the industry in which you work, by answering 22 quick questions about developer preferences and industry trends.
• Google Android - a sneak preview 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "What's in it for developers? Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Another event will be held in Boston on February 23rd. Here's what they told us .... "
• New hack could enable Linux on the Wii 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Wii fans hang on to your hats, as the video above explains, hackers have found a way around the Wii's encryption keys which opens the widely popular console up to home brewed games, open source ports and potentially even a full version of Linux running on your Wii.
• Why Microsoft loves Google Android, take 2 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "Reputation bashing aside, I like high-spirited debates. My favorite quote these-days is, 'Argue as if you were right, listen as if you were wrong' by Karl Weick .... "
• Is Microsoft claiming ownership of embedded Linux? 6 months ago
  
  "Microsoft has long claimed that Linux violates its patents, but has refused to be specific. A recent deal between the software company and a printer maker may offer a clue..."
• Linux-based SLUG spawns highly hackable NAS 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Cisco's consumer products division is shipping a successor to the Linux-based NSLU2 (aka 'SLUG') consumer NAS (network-attached storage) appliance, one of the most-hacked devices ever..."
• Linux to power Google GPhone? 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "Google's first mobile phone reportedly will run a Linux operating system on a Texas Instruments "Edge" chipset, and will likely ship to T-Mobile and Orange customers in the Spring of 2008. "GPhone" call minutes and text messages will apparently be funded by mobile advertising, according to reports."
• RFID a 'technical blunder', report says 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  The next bubble ready to burst?

  Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology bubble ready to burst according to a new report by Dublin-based firm Heavey RF.…

• Motorola Releases Open Source Middleware 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "Motorola announced Thursday that it has released version 1 of an open source project aimed at providing a standard for high-availability middleware for telecommunications hardware manufacturers and ISVs. The company also disclosed it has taken the first steps toward turning the code over to a consortium of interested parties ... "
• What Eclipse "Europa" means for Linux device devs 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "The open source Eclipse tools project will orchestrate a massive, coordinated release on June 29. Among the "Europa" releases' 21 constituent sub-project releases, four are significant to Linux device developers, according to Doug Gaff, leader of Eclipse.org's Device Software Development Project ... "
• An update from OpenMoko 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "For those who have been waiting for an update on the completely open OpenMoko phone project - one is finally out there. It seems that OpenMoko has been absorbed into FIC, the company which is making the hardware. Developers will be able to start ordering phones to hack on starting July 9, with general availability happening in October ... "
• Linux computer fits in USB key 10 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  A start-up located in the French Alps near Grenoble is readying a tiny ARM-based Linux single-board computer (SBC) in a USB key form-factor. Calao, based in Sant Martin le Vinoux, is also readying a tiny Linux SBC designed to plug into QIL (quad in-line) IC sockets.
• Cellular modem/routers run Linux/Java stack 11 months ago
  
  Board- and system-maker Arcom has launched a family of Linux-based cellular modem/routers aimed at telemetry, Internet access, and mobile computing applications.
• Malaysia to manufacture world's first Wi-Fi centric mobile phone 11 months ago
  
  Malaysia's Comintel corporation Bhd signed an agreement with Gupp Technologies Incorporated to manufacture the world's first Linux-based dual mode Wi-Fi centric mobile phone on Wednesday. The smart phone, which can be used over Voice Over Wi-Fi (VoWi- Fi) and GSM networks, will enable users to transfer calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, Comintel said in a statement.
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