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Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Colligan added that Palm would continue to release Treos based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, alongside those sporting the new Linux-based OS. The Japanese company Access, which distributes the existing Palm OS known as "Garnet", is itself...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
PalmSource Pushes On With Linux Plans
News Linux may make Cobalt, the latest Palm OS, more attractive to some licensees, but so far the operating system hasn't made a significant impact in the mobile world. PalmSource joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) this week, pushing...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
3GSM: Mobile OS Developments review
Reviews It is expected that at some point Palm OS Cobalt will migrate to the new Linux-based kernel, but PalmSource is keen to stress that users will still be able to run their existing applications. PalmSource chose this event to announce its bravest leap...
[February 16, 2005, 11:50]
Best And Worst Products, 1996-2006 review
Reviews As the huddled masses of Windows users endure the seemingly interminable wait for Vista, it's all too easy to forget that the Apple Mac faithful have had an OS with many of Vista's advantages for some time now.
[July 13, 2006, 16:15]
Opera Spins Web Into Mobile Phones
News The software is also available for Windows, the Mac OS and Linux platforms, and is used in some consumer-electronics devices. Opera versions are available for Symbian OS handsets such as the P800, the Nokia 3650, the Nokia 7650, the Nokia N-Gage...
[October 10, 2003, 15:05]
Mobiles To Get PowerVR 3D This Year
News Imagination on Thursday will announce OpenGL ES support in PowerVR MBX and MBX Lite for any Symbian OS or Linux device, and Imagination is also supporting OpenGL on Windows CE for a specific, unnamed customer.
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Forty-four percent said they are "considering" alternative operating systems — mostly Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu. And, in most of these places, Linux is more common on desktops than servers — apparently contradicting the...
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Downloads Server support for Linux and Mac OS X platforms is also available. Desktop compatability for Microsoft Outlook, Linux and Apple clients will enhance functionality. The application offers over-the-air sync to today's most essential mobile clients...
[March 7, 2007, 14:46]
Palm Gets A Boost From Linux
News The Access Linux Platform will still be able to run Palm OS applications, but Tokyo-based Access will use an open source underpinning as its foundation. What we found, though, as we said "Palm OS is going to be based on Linux", was that the market...
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Its supporters say the benefits of open source software on PC servers and desktops carry over into the mobile device world: Linux is a robust OS that has a developer community of thousands constantly improving it.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Transmeta Set To Release Linux For Net Appliances
News The chipmaker is preparing to post Mobile Linux, its take on the Linux OS, under the General Public Licence (GNU) process in the near future, company representatives said this week. The company expects people to download Mobile Linux, tinker with...
[February 16, 2001, 11:13]
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]
Motorola Takes Linux Into The Mobile Mainstream
News Does Motorola's success with its Linux-based "Ming" phones in China indicate that the open source platform is now a serious contender against Symbian and Windows Mobile in the handheld-device software platform arena?
[July 31, 2006, 12:35]
Motorola Licenses Opera Browser
News Opera makes its Web browser available on mobile platforms such as the Symbian OS and Linux, but pointedly does not support Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms, such as Pocket PC and Windows for Smartphones.
[February 11, 2004, 10:30]
Symbian Shipments Rise Amid Doubts Over Future
News The Symbian OS, like Microsoft Windows CE, the Palm OS and embedded versions of Linux, brings handheld computer features to mobile phones. Most established mobile phone makers have licensed the Symbian OS, while PalmSource and Microsoft have teamed...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Linux Heads For Mobile Phones
News But Linux is the only OS for the next generation of phones that is open source, a mixed blessing, according to Keith Waryas, a wireless analyst with IDC. An open-source OS is generally less expensive than anything developed privately, likely a key...
[January 13, 2003, 8:55]
Palm Launches 'European' Treo 750v
News The company has launched Windows versions of the Treo, and a planned Linux-based version of Palm OS has been delayed. Devices based on the Palm OS that Palm created have been delayed due to difficulties with the PalmSource software division it sold...
[September 12, 2006, 17:25]
Nokia N810 Internet Tablet review
Reviews The N810 runs an operating system called Internet Tablet OS 2008, which is based on the Maemo Linux platform. Although there are fewer third-party applications available for this OS than for, say, a Windows-based UMPC or a handheld running Windows...
[February 7, 2008, 9:34]
Have Apple Got It Wrong With The IPhone?
Blog Comment However, you neglect to consider the iPhone has 500MBs of desktop-class Unix-based OS X on some pretty high performance hardware compared to the ~50MB of Windows Mobile, Symbian etc with a far more robust and easy to use software update mechanism...
[November 15, 2007, 21:12]
DoCoMo 3G Deal Makes Symbian Big In Japan
News The deal is a boost for Symbian against competition from Linux, Microsoft, PalmSource and other competitors, and paves the way for broader use of the Symbian OS in DoCoMo's FOMA 3G handsets. Linux is used extensively in the (Japanese) consumer...
[September 26, 2003, 12:25]
