Red Hat has just announced a partnership with 3G Lab to create a new operating system for cell phones and other mobile devices, but, surprisingly, Linux is nowhere to be seen. As might be expected, eCos does support EL/IX Level I, a Linux...
It also introduced the next-generation XScale processor for mobile devices, code-named Bulverde, which is designed to add computing capabilities to cell phones, wireless handhelds and similar gadgets.
But this wasn't a problem for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) when it decided last September to build an EP as a catalyst to disseminate information for the burgeoning UK fuel cell research community.
Its communications division, meanwhile, continues to lose money, and an effort hatched in 2000 to take on Texas Instruments in cell phones has moved slowly. In addition, teams of engineers are working on game consoles, cell phone software and...
John Pescatore, a security analyst with Gartner, said: "In Europe, babies virtually come out of the womb with cell phones. Once finished, the interface specification for mobile messaging will work with both plain SMS, or Short Message Service, and...
Even Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer hinted the company was working on the device in July when he said: "As regards cell phones, we don't think that the phones that are available today make the best music players.