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The Opie Project is pleased to announce the availability of version 1.2 with many new features.

A beta version of Magneto leaked out: This version of the OS, which is expected to be called Windows Mobile 2005, will have a number of significant changes from the current one.

The new Treo smartphone is GNU/Linux compatible and comes with Bluetooth connectivity--here's how you can set it up for your network.

This article introduces a network camera based on embedded Linux, an open FPGA, and a free, open codec called Ogg Theora. Author Andrey Filippov, who designed the camera, says it is the first high-resolution, high frame-rate digital camera to offer a low bit rate.

Want a good smartphone on the cheap? Jørgen Sundgot has a quick play with Nokia's 3230, and thinks it might be just the ticket - and a good-looking one at that.

Symbian, a maker of operating systems for cell phones, has licensed software from rival Microsoft, in a sign of growing cooperation between the two companies.

It's only been about two years since Linux started becoming a significant factor in mobile phones, an arena that has been dominated by Symbian, Microsoft, and proprietary operating systems. With the burgeoning complexity of mobile phones, feature phones, and smart phones -- plus increasing time-to-market pressures -- there's a clear movement toward off-the-shelf, third-party operating systems based on industry standards, and Linux figures to be a major beneficiary of that trend.

Sharp has introduced a new model in its Zaurus line of Linux PDAs. The SL-C1000 is similar to the SL-C3000, but without an internal harddrive. As with previous Japan-only Zaurus models, the SL-C1000 will be available with internationalization features from a number of global resellers.

An ultra-portable entertainment tablet and a wireless-to-the-max laptop mark Intel's vision of tomorrow's mobile lifestyle.

We don't need a killer application or a killer device. If anything, we need a company to take something we do, that we might even take for granted, and create a device that makes it easier not to take it for granted. Pick a function and market the function instead of the device.