Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Intel Corp. has acquired Opened Hand, a London-based company which specializes in mobile Linux development and services. "Opened Hand brings great expertise and technology in the area of ...

Eschewing its own SUSE Linux, Novell Inc. said today that it will back Intel Corp.’s Moblin Linux in the fast-growing market for netbooks and smartphones. Novell is creating a version of Moblin for ...

At the Intel Developer Forum last week, the Santa Clara company said that its upcoming Clover Trail Atom processor -- the dual-core version of Medfield that will debut with cheap Windows 8 laptops and ...

Intel’s upcoming Clover Trail processors are low power chips designed for tablets laptops, and other devices that will run Windows 8. The first product I’ve had a chance to play with that uses the ...

Intel and the Taiwan government plan to open a development center to further the Linux-based Moblin OS for devices such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), they jointly announced on ...

If you’ve tried installing Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux-based operating systems on a computer with an Intel Atom Bay Trail or Cherry Trail processor, there’s a decent chance you ran into problems with ...

In an effort to counter the growing dominance of Microsoft’s Windows OS in netbooks, Intel on Tuesday announced a beta version of a Linux OS it has developed for low-cost laptops and mobile devices.