Embedded Linux specialist Trolltech has claimed that Linux will soon be a major competitor to Symbian and Windows Mobile. Haavard Nord, the chief executive of Trolltech, which makes the Qtopia ...

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 ...

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. Trolltech's Eirik Chambe-Eng told ...

Throughout the past year, I took a break from Linux to try and find a mobile platform that could fulfill the role of a ...

Over the past five years, the diffusion and adaptation of Linux into mobile operating systems (OSes) has grown to 60 million units per year, with various mobile phone vendors, such as Motorola, NEC, ...

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North Americans and Europeans may not realize it yet, but Linux for mobile phones is hot. Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic and Samsung all offer Linux OS phones, mainly in Asia. Late last ...

CORRECTION: The fourth paragraph of this story has been changed to clarify when the software first became available. A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM ...

Nokia's backing of open source could give boost to companies offering support for Linux apps used with 3G services Taiwan Mobile Co., one of Taiwan’s biggest mobile phone service providers, launched a ...

Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant because ...

Most people don’t think twice about the operating system that’s going to power their new PC — their minds have already been wired for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Similarly, most people don’t think ...

Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know Your email has been sent When Defender came to macOS as well as Windows, Microsoft announced that the name of the software was ...