Brighthand Reviews the palmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager

My life is easier with a LifeDrive. Instead of carrying a backpack laden with a notebook and power supply, I just slip the LifeDrive and palmOne Universal Keyboard into my camera bag, and I'm ready for anything. I HotSync before I leave one computer, and first thing when I arrive at the other, and I've had no corrupted folders or files yet.

Apple to drop PPC for x86?

Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. Update: It is now official.

Embedded Linux brings high-quality conferencing to VoIP phone

Snom is shipping a Linux-based VoIP (voice-over-IP) business phone said to offer high-quality conferencing, thanks to on-phone bridging and a full-duplex speakerphone. Snom will demonstrate the Snom 320 at SuperComm in Chicago next week, along with its full line of Linux-based VoIP phones, equipment, and software.

SDK available for Linux-based portable media player

Archos is offering an SDK for its Linux-based "pocket media assistant." The toolkit can be used to create non-commercial applications for the PMA400, and is available for a fee for commercial use. It includes proprietary multimedia libraries, an ARM-Linux kernel and cross-toolchain, sample applications, and documentation.

Linux-based in-car navigator garners rave review

The Linux-based TomTom Go in-car navigation device has received an "Editor's Choice" award from PC Magazine. The PC Magazine editors praise the device's low cost, intuitive user interface, 3D map quality, sound quality, battery life, POI (points-of-interest) database, and more.

Is the 960 a new Linux-powered smartphone from Philips?

Nothing official yet, but some blurry pics and possible specs have popped up for the Philips 960, a new smartphone which is supposedly going to run on Linux (with the Qtopia interface?) and have a slider-out numeric keypad, a 320x240 262,000 color LCD screen, a 2MP digital camera, an SD/MMC memory card slot, Bluetooth 1.2, and software for playback of MP3, AAC, and AAC+ audio files and MPEG4 and 3GPP video files.

A introduction to Windows Mobile 5.0 for developers

This extensive whitepaper, authored by Microsoft, introduces the many new features of Windows Mobile 5.0 from a developer's perspective, and provides an overview of the tools used by developers to create applications based on the new mobile device software platform. Read it here. Also, read this, explaining memory on PPCs.

Palm OS Cobalt Phone Shown at DevCon

Palm OS Developer David Beers was at the PalmSource DevCon last week and caught some time with a working Palm OS Cobalt smartphone. David wrote up his impressions of the device and took some comparison pictures of the Oswin Cobalt prototype.

The Latest on Palm OS for Linux

At the PalmSource developer conference this week, many people were hoping for additional details on this upcoming operating system. Although the company did make a demonstration on Wednesday of a few of the functions of Palm OS for Linux, clearly a lot more work needs to be done.

Is Linux Palm's savior?

The deliberately simple nature of the Palm operating system was so inspiring to Rick Broida that in 1997 he started a magazine, Tap, dedicated to devices using the handheld OS.

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