Several leading mobile technology players have cooperated on a project to explore Linux's potential as the major software component in future smartphones.
The Linux mobile market is set to explode with the second open-source-based phone on sale over the Internet, opening the door for developers to build their own applications.
Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros have extended their pact to enable the software maker to tap into the lucrative wireless e-mail market which RIM -- the BlackBerry maker -- dominates.
Palm's bid to reinvent mobile computing looks an awful lot like the current state of mobile computing, but with less horsepower.
Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, according to company Chief Executive Ed Colligan.
Like most people with a pulse in their wrist and a love of tech in their hearts, I saw the Macworld keynote the other day. I know it's not going to win me any friends but does anyone else think Steve Jobs mightn't be so good on numbers?
You wait for some hot news on smartphone software -- well, I do -- and then several bits come along at once. This week has seen some seriously fascinating movements in the field -- but what does it all mean for your mobile?
Although he knows not everyone will agree, Palm founder Jeff Hawkins is convinced the Foleo is the best idea he's ever had.
Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?
The co-founder of one of the most popular mobile Linux platforms has predicted a "revolution" in the use of open-source software on phones and handheld devices.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
The E6 tries valiantly to be a smartphone and a sexy consumer gadget. It's a pity then, that it didn't try that little bit harder.
Sony Ericsson's M600i is a unique-looking Symbian-based smartphone with a great deal of business apps to keep you productive when you're on the road.
A new release of Opera's Linux browser marks the company's effort to keep Windows and Linux software versions synchronised. But the Mac has been left out in the cold.
In a renewed grab for a bigger slice of the enterprise mobility pie, Nokia has announced three new built-for-business phones and unveiled a new version of its server-based Mobile Suite platform.
Texas Instruments showed off several new chipsets Monday that it says will help handheld devices run graphics, multimedia content and Java applications as much as eight times faster than they can now.
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