Communication

MontaVista will ship a "fifth-generation" Linux-based operating system for mobile phones in mid-November. The company says Mobilinux 5.0 will offer new security, power, networking, and quick-boot…

Trolltech today announced Qtopia Phone Edition, the leading application platform and user interface for Linux based mobile phones, has been ported to the Neo1973 mobile phone from Taiwanese…

The story has a familiar ring. A vendor offers powerful, reliable new appliances to go with the open-source IP PBX (Private Branch eXchange) software it provides and supports. The new boxes make…

Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, today announced that Asterisk creator and Digium Founder Mark Spencer will join leaders from Cisco, Avaya, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens and Skype to discuss the…

Motorola, Inc. today announced a significant step in its commitment to mobile Linux and rich experience creation by introducing MOTOMAGX, its next generation mobile Linux platform. Building on the…

Poky is an embedded Linux build system, distribution and developer environment which builds upon OpenEmbedded technologies. Poky's focus is purely on building stable optimised GNOME Embedded type…

Just a few days after going on sale, OpenMoko has received at least a thousand orders, but has since gone quiet. Nothing has shipped and no update on planned shipping dates. One developer (Harald…

OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.

Motorola released their "open source" Service Availability Framework. However, The license of OpenSAF isn't really open source after all - it's a mixture of GPL and MPL, with extra parts aimed at…

Starting July 9th OpenMoko will be taking orders on the worlds first integrated Open Source mobile communications platform. Two configurations will be available, the Neo Base for $300 and the Neo…