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Linux-based Handheld Hits The Indian Market
News The Linux-powered handheld combines the functions of an organiser and an MP3 player and has handwriting recognition capabilities. A pair of Indian companies are touting a home-grown handheld, eyeing both the local market and a wider audience.
[March 30, 2004, 16:20]
Sharp Hones New Linux Handheld
News Sharp is preparing to release a handheld computer in the United States that uses a version of the Linux operating system, according to sources. In the coming weeks, sources said, the consumer-electronics maker is expected to make the handheld...
[October 8, 2001, 10:27]
Security Hole Discovered In Linux Handheld
News Sharp's Linux-based handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private data off a corporate network, according to researchers at a leading university. Sharp is using a modified version of Lineo's Embedix Plus PDA OS in its...
[July 12, 2002, 8:42]
Exclusive: SuSE Linux Goes Handheld
News There is massive interest in Linux on next generation handhelds like the iPAQ and other high performance handheld devices that have been announced," says the source. Currently only a few manufacturers have come up with handheld computers and...
[January 4, 2001, 6:49]
Sharp Unleashes Linux Handheld
News As previously reported, Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 handheld uses Lineo's version of Linux, is powered by Intel's 206MHz StrongARM processor, and has both CompactFlash and Secure Digital expansion slots. Seeking to prove it isn't the dinosaur of the...
[December 4, 2001, 8:58]
Compaq Launches Competition For Handheld Linux Apps
News Compaq Computer has launched a contest designed to stimulate developer interest in the Linux operating system for handheld computers. Entrants are to design applications for Linux-capable handhelds, with five winners to receive a Compaq iPaq PDA.
[June 19, 2001, 15:36]
Linux-based Handheld Hits The Indian Market
Talkback With 125 pound price tag, its hardly a poor mans computer. That money can feed 10 poor hungry people.
[March 30, 2004, 17:33]
Analysis Of The PASR Standard And Its Usability In Handheld Operating Systems Such As Linux
White Papers If handheld operating systems could use this feature, they could potentially add hours of battery life. The PASR power savings below assumes that the handheld device consumes a total of 4mW in sleep mode with the entire DRAM self-refreshed.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Linux Site Takes In Windows
News The founder of a popular Web site devoted to Linux for handheld computers and other gadgets will announce next week plans to cover Linux rival Windows as well. The software giant has operating systems, including Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded...
[October 14, 2002, 13:53]
Sharp Ships Linux PDA
News Sharp Electronics is shipping a Linux handheld, giving that niche market its first major device manufacturer. I'm not sure enterprise is willing to bet their handheld strategy on Linux, since it has yet to take off on the desktop," IDC analyst...
[April 4, 2002, 9:22]
Sharp Aims Linux-based PDA At UK Corporations
News The major challenge Sharp Electronics will face in introducing its new Linux-based handheld computer is spurring developers to create a large body of applications, the company said on Wednesday. The major advantage of a Linux-based handheld would...
[April 17, 2002, 16:05]
Qtopia To Power IBM Linux PDA Design
News Trolltech, a Norway-based Linux software company, said its applications software will be included in an IBM effort to encourage the use of Linux on handheld computers. The IBM effort poses a challenge to established handheld companies such as...
[February 14, 2003, 14:12]
Yopy Comes To Europe
News Since then, Yopy has ceded the handheld Linux spotlight to the high-profile Zaurus SL-5500, Sharp's bid to re-enter the US PDA market. The handheld, which was originally supposed to appear under the Samsung brand, existed as little more than a...
[July 12, 2002, 14:36]
Linux PDA Has Wi-Fi, Camera And Phone
News A Japanese firm is launching a Linux-based handheld computer sporting Wi-Fi, a mobile phone and a camera, the result of collaboration between China, Korea and Japan. The hardware for the new handheld has been developed by Korea-based PDA maker IMRI...
[April 28, 2003, 9:23]
PalmOne Considers Linux
News The Californian firm has evaluated both Microsoft-based operating systems as well as at least one version of Linux as a potential alternative operating system to the Palm OS for its handheld devices, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[November 4, 2004, 12:48]
Microsoft Advised To Learn To Love Linux
News Management guru Clayton Christensen has a paradoxical answer for Microsoft to the challenge posed by open source: invest in Linux applications for handheld devices. Where Linux takes root is in new applications, like Web servers and handheld devices.
[October 18, 2004, 9:40]
Sharp Plans Linux PDA
News In a move that promises to stir up the handheld computer market, Japanese electronics company Sharp today announced plans to introduce the first mass-market device running the free Linux operating system.
[March 5, 2001, 15:50]
Linux PDA Featuring Bluetooth On Sale By Summer
News The Mitac Cat PDA, a handheld computer powered by the Linux operating system, will go into mass production with a view to selling on the Taiwanese consumer market in the next three months, the company confirmed at the CeBIT computer show in...
[March 22, 2001, 15:03]
Sharp Picks Lineo's Linux For New PDA
News Sharp will use Lineo's version of Linux in an upcoming handheld computer, a significant victory for Lineo as it works to push Linux into non-PC devices such as network equipment and set-top boxes. A handful of Linux handhelds are emerging, and...
[June 1, 2001, 8:43]
Microsoft Takes Share Of Linux Spotlight
News The founder of a popular Web site devoted to Linux used in gadgets such as handheld computers will announce this week plans to cover Linux rival Windows as well. The software giant has operating systems, including Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded...
[October 14, 2002, 8:16]
