We’ve all seen video demos of Android running on reference platforms, but no matter how many times we’ve seen it, any Android demo still manages to grab attention, especially at a time when news is scarce. So here we bring you another video, courtesy of the BBC, of Android showing off some of its polish [...]

Google will combine with SingTel, Bharti, Globe Transit and Pacnet to build the mooted Unity cable, connecting Japan to the United States. The $US300 million system was revealed by SingTel and Pacnet this morning. The 7.68 terabit cable is expected to be ready for service in 1Q 2010.

Samsung Electronics became the first LiMo phone maker in the world. LiMo is the linux based operation system for mobile phone. It announced on February 19 that it will supply the world’s first commercial LiMo phones to Orange, a UK affiliate of France Telecom, as early as this month or within the first half at [...]

A battle of Linux-based mobile platforms at the Mobile World Congress 2008

ARM demos Android running on a real handset at the GSMA Mobile World Congress

Day 2 of the Mobile World Congress is always the busiest one, in the exhibition floor. Also, the one with the best parties. This year, same pattern (did I come too many times to 3GSM?). Tons of people stopped at our booth (most likely due to the models that are helping in the booth, although [...]

These Segways are fitted with WiMAX-enabled laptops as they roam the streets of Barcelona, Spain. This video comes courtesy of Intel, and Intel is just showing off the capabilities of WiMAX.

The first set of handsets based on the LiMo Platform made their debut at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The LiMo Platform is the mobile Linux distribution produced by the LiMo Foundation. The handsets, 18 in total, are from LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung, Purple Labs, and Aplix.

Texas Instruments, a member of the Open Handset Alliance, announced today that “it will demonstrate an early look of the Android mobile platform in two forms: a prototype handset based on TI’s OMAP850 processor that also includes TI’s Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Bluetooth(R) wireless technology solutions, as well as an OMAP3430 processor-based Zoom Mobile Development [...]

If you have been following developments in the Linux community, the phrase this is the year of Linux on the desktop must be familiar to you. It’s repeated in some circles at the beginning of every year, and I have reading about it for the past six years or more. But this year has been [...]

JeeNet is an open API shared content framework that links users and content. Its structure is best described as forum’s structure, so it has: catalogs, forums, topics and posts. The type of content (in posts) it supports are as follows: text messages and media types - from images and video to user manually specified content. [...]

ARM, the leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier, has announced that it will be showcasing “visually stunning mobile Internet devices at Mobile World Congress 2008″. This is an interesting development because ARM is not a member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), and has not shown any indication that it will join the OHA.